Philadelphia News

Masterman High School, at 17th and Spring Garden Streets, is again the top high school in Pennsylvania, according to US News and World Report 's annual list.

Lamont Chyanne Blount, 22, of Rush Street near 13th, was charged with murder and gun offenses in the Oct. 16 death of Gregory Simmons, 37, of Mascher Street near Nedro Avenue, said Officer Christine O'Brien, a police spokeswoman.

There are few treatments available for the millions of people who suffer from migraines.

According to Philadelphia Police, officers were surveying the area for reports of gunshots.

Two young men, a bunch of subordinates, one master plan: Take over the drug trade at some of Pennsylvania's best schools.

It feels like suburban Northern California, a village of green fields, corporate glass and fresh ideas, the poster child for a sustainable Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Science Festival, a citywide collaboration that brings together nine exciting days filled with events that showcase science and technology in everyday life, returns this year and is coming to Haverford.

Nearly two months after final arguments were presented by the applicants, there's still no decision from gambling regulators on Philadelphia's second casino license.

A Philadelphia pimp who ran a multi-state prostitution operation was found guilty today on three counts of sex trafficking.

TWO SOUTH Philly families were torn apart on Feb. 11. This morning, they hope new light will be shed on what happened that night on Watkins Street.

On Monday evening, Penn Democrats brought Democratic Congressman Chaka Fattah to campus to provide his insight on how he legislated amidst Washington's political gridlock.

Nina Simone is one of American music's most-celebrated figures as well as a legendary icon of artistic expression and empowerment.

Two prep school graduates sought to use their sports connections and business acumen to establish a monopoly on drug sales to high school students in the affluent Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia, authorities said Monday.

Two prep school graduates sought to use their sports connections and business acumen to establish a monopoly on drug sales to high school students in the affluent Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia, authorities said Monday.

Two prep school graduates sought to use their connections and business acumen to establish a monopoly on drug sales to high school students in the affluent Philadelphia suburbs, authorities said Monday.

The former athletic director for the Jenkintown School District, in Montgomery County, Pa., has admitted he had a sexual relationship with a former student when she was a high school senior and just 17 years old.

Last year, Wayne Mills supplied more than 100,000 yards of it, used mostly in courthouses and law offices to bind official documents.

During the past couple of years, the Philadelphia region has seen a dramatic increase in the number of urgent care facilities popping up in neighborhoods.

Philadelphia's own Bonnie, of Bonnie and Clyde ID theft fame, is scheduled to make a federal court appearance today in connection with new crimes she committed in California.

PHILADELPHIA J. Matthew Wolfe was part of an insurgency that spent three years trying to overthrow the leadership of Philadelphia's feckless Republican Party in the hopes of building a viable alternative to Democratic dominance.