Philadelphia News

Many people will recognise this King Lear from his role as Geoffrey on 90s TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Visiting the blacksmith who shod horses for his family's farm, young Amos Glick was inspired: "You put a piece of metal at the forge, heat it and beat it, and you get a completely different shape."

Police say a Philadelphia man shot and killed his 5-year-old son and critically wounded the boy's mother before trying to kill himself as officers closed in.

"It'll be so beautiful there!" Amy Aldridge says, thinking of dancing with a tall, dark stranger among the pines.

Last week, a North Philadelphia family filed a lawsuit against the city charging that inept paramedics caused the death of a 24-year-old pregnant woman and brain damage to her son.

It's part of the new "Phillyosophy" campaign by the tourism promotion agency Visit Philadelphia .

Philadelphia police continued their search Saturday for two men who carjacked an SUV and drove it into a crowd, killing three children.

Two carjackers who rammed a stolen SUV into a family selling fruit for their church, killing three children, were still on the run Saturday as the reward for their capture reached $110,000.

A woman is fighting for her life and a young boy is recovering after a propane tank exploded inside an RV in the Oxford Circle section of Philadelphia.

What security changes, if any, will come at local hospitals and health care facilities in the wake of Thursday's deadly shooting inside a medical office on the campus of Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, in Delaware County? Even before this incident, a coalition of more than 60 hospitals in the Philadelphia area would meet regularly to talk about events ... (more)

Philadelphia Police Homicide Detectives have announced that a third child has been pronounced dead as a result of a carjacking gone wrong in North Philadelphia earlier this morning.

Friday morning was a panicked one on the 1700 block of Sigel Street in South Philadelphia, where a home went up in flames just after 6:00 a.m. According to South Detectives, a male suspect is in custody after a plainclothes police officer saw him throwing a firebomb at the property just before the blaze began.

John Paul II passed quickly yesterday - too quickly to satisfy many of the assembled thousands - on his way from International Airport to the Mass he celebrated before hundreds of thousands of persons in beautifully groomed Logan Circle.

When I first got my cat, a rescue from the streets of Kensington, he wasn't exactly house-broken.

Police are at the scene of a hit and run crash that happened at Germantown and Allegheny Avenues in Philadelphia.

Car thieves in Philadelphia drove into a crowd of people this afternoon, killing three pedestrians and seriously injuring three others.

Two men hijacked a white Jeep in northern Philadelphia on Friday, throwing its terrified owner into the back seat, cops said.

Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to attend the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia next year, according to Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput.

An officer directs traffic near the scene of a shooting Thursday, July 24, 2014, at a wellness center attached to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pa.

Friday brings the start of three days of activities in Philadelphia marking the importance of the Liberian community in the area.