Philadelphia News

City Council members have reached what officials are calling an "historic" agreement to rein in a longstanding Philadelphia problem: how to dispose of tens of thousands of vacant properties and lots.

Nearly 35 years after Rocky Balboa returned for his first sequel, Philadelphia's favorite adopted son has inspired city runners to go to the distance.

A 17-year-old Philadelphia boy charged with witness intimidation and making terrorist threats by way of Twitter pleaded guilty Wednesday in family court.

A pizza delivery driver is shot and critically injured in Overbrook, in what police say appears to be an ambush.

On Wednesday, Dec. 4 around 3:30 p.m., police responded to the 2500 block of S 66th Street for a report of a missing person.

The Philadelphia Inquirer said the 17-year-old Martin Luther King High School student pleaded guilty Wednesday in Family Court to witness intimidation and terroristic threats.

Customs agents in Philadelphia have seized more than 100 pounds of khat, a stimulant commonly used in parts of Africa and the Middle East but illegal in the United States.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said Wednesday revenue fell 1.3 percent in November compared to the same month in 2012.

A house fire claimed the life of a woman and injured her husband Tuesday morning in the Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia.

A driver was arrested on DUI charges after he struck and injured a man with his car and then fled the scene early Wednesday morning in Southwest Philadelphia.

Breathing could be a bit difficult today. Air quality is bad, and that's unusual for this time of year.

So far we've had Brown Thursday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.

Despite internal investigations, Philadelphia Police Officer Richard DeCoatsworth was hailed as a "hero" and protected by police authorities.

The Barnes Foundation says its executive director, Derek Gillman, will leave Jan. 1 to become a visiting art professor at neighboring Drexel University.

Comedian Jon Stewart has weighed in on the now infamous stun gun fight at the Franklin Mills Mall on Black Friday.

A man was attacked out of nowhere, and police believe it's the latest assault tied to the so-called "Knockout Game."

Edward J. "Babe" Heffron, 90, the former Easy Company private whose World War II experiences were chronicled in the cable TV miniseries Band of Brothers , died Sunday, Dec. 1, at Kennedy Hospital in Stratford.

PHILADELPHIA At 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighing 305 pounds, Christian Massey towered over his brother, his grandmother, and most of the neighbors on Felton Street.

"We're a little engine that could," Rumer says of her entertainment-marketing and online-publishing firm, i-g creative, which finds ways to monetize talent and good ideas from its street-level office at 3rd Street and Liberties Walk.

A court clerk in suburban Philadelphia who defied Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage by signing licenses for scores of gay couples is urging the state's highest court to overturn an order that required him to stop.