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A source tells NBC10 the former officer forced the women to use drugs and perform oral sex on him at gunpoint A former Philadelphia Police Officer once hailed a hero is now in jail on $60 million bail after he allegedly raped two women at gunpoint.

"Look Up!" is a PlanPhilly feature that encourages appreciation of our architectural and historical environment.

With cheerleaders, mascots, and thunderous applause, thousands of students from Mastery Charter Schools gathered for a giant pep rally Monday, but the event had nothing to do with sports.

In 1967, the city of Detroit was drastically altered. A blemish in American history, the Detroit riots lasted four days, leaving the city in a state of utter disarray.

Philadelphia police released surveillance video of a suspect wanted in the murder of a fruit vendor in South Philadelphia last month.

In the video, two men driving by the Family Dollar store at 4701 Girard Avenue in West Philadelphia recorded a man wielding a tire iron, swinging at several store employees on the sidewalk.

Thousands of Philadelphia students walked out of class Friday and marched to school district headquarters and City Hall to protest massive cuts in public school funding.

A group of masked men burst into a Northeast Philadelphia home and beat up a disabled veteran before stealing his televion, money and other items.

For any city controller in Philadelphia there is a conflict between the ideal job specifications and the political reality of getting yourself elected.

For the last 13 years, Joan Mazzotti has made a public career of helping low-income, first-generation students from Philadelphia's public high schools get into and through college.

ALUMINUM BASEBALL bats, frying pans and bullhorns made 7th and Arch streets one noisy corner yesterday, as dozens of activists gathered outside the Federal Detention Center to protest arrests they said were made at a marijuana event Saturday.

Philadelphia police last year recommended that charges of witness intimidation be brought against former Officer Richard DeCoatsworth, once hailed as a hero for his work on the force and charged over the weekend with rape, a high-ranking police official said Sunday.

According to police, two suspects entered the home through a kitchen window, duct taped the victims and forced them to open a safe.

According to police, a 20-year-old man was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and torso.

The 2013 show actually fell short about $1.2 million, not an unprecedented event in its 184-year history but a short-term disaster for the many urban "greening" programs it supports.

Two Philadelphia artists who created entirely different bodies of work in their careers but whose art displayed a similarly strong desire for personal expression are being remembered in memorial exhibitions this month and next.

The water is a constant drip, drip, drip, from a leaking, corroding duct at the 8th and Market SEPTA concourse.

FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013, AT 1:11 A.M. EDT - This April 16, 2013 photo shows an American flag sewn on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's death on display at the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library in Philadelphia.

The Foundation's latest project, Black Male Engagement , was formed to combat the "negative narrative" of black and to highlight "the bigger truth that black men are assets to our nation." . The grant program awarded grants to 19 Philadelphia men, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000. They were selected from 125 applicants.

With cries of protest coming from all directions - from dozens of business owners in Council chambers to thousands of public school students marching down Broad Street - a Philadelphia City Council committee advanced a bailout measure Friday for raising $30 million for the School District through a higher Use and Occupancy tax.