Philadelphia News

This undated file image shows the main gate of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I, Poland, which was liberated by the Russians in January 1945.

PHILADELPHIA - German efforts to prosecute aging war criminals suffered a setback this week with the death of a retired Philadelphia toolmaker who had long been in the crosshairs of Nazi hunters.

The Worldwide Innovative Networking in personalized cancer medicine, , recently announced that the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University will be one of its six new members - the only member of this prestigious group in the Tri-State Area.

NJTransit adds: "Bus service to/from Ben Franklin Bridge is experience delays up to 20 minutes due to a motor vehicle accident on the entrance ramp at the bridge.

Mayor Michael Nutter today announced that singer Jon Bon Jovi is the 2014 recipient of the city's Marian Anderson Award.

Replica Creative and Young Involved Philadelphia have partnered to present Creative Cafe Coffee Chats, a new monthly series continuing on July 28, 8-9am at the Creative Cafe @ Replica .

An elderly Philadelphia man accused of Nazi war crimes and ordered to stand trial in Germany has died, his lawyer tells CBS3.

If police caught you carrying a marijuana cigarette in Washington, D.C., last Wednesday, chances are you would have been arrested, fingerprinted and perhaps jailed.

Pennsylvania's highest court says a murder-suicide isn't among the "material defects" that a home seller has to disclose to the buyer.

"Ride-share" car services such as UberX and Lyft are transforming the taxi business in Philadelphia, and they don't even operate here.

The U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research has published a report on the happiest cities in the country, and there's not one Pennsylvania or New Jersey city on the top 10. Unfortunately, there are three on the other side of the list.

The family of Danny C. Johnson, 59, a married truck driver and father of five who lingered for 23 days after he was pulled out of the rubble of last year's Salvation Army store collapse, filed a wrongful-death suit Tuesday against the charitable organization and others.

SkyFOX was over the scene in Upper Merion just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning where police say what started as a burglary turned into a home invasion.

The brown and white pit bull type dog was tied to a chain link fence with a cable and electrical tape at Awbury Park in the northwest section of the city.

Philadelphia, particularly South Philly, has one of the largest populations of Italian-Americans of any city in the country.

A cabaret show features live music, comedy or dance routines and is usually performed in nightclubs, bars and restaurants.

Frozen cocktails are must to make these hot summer days a little cooler and Philadelphia has plenty of bars offering frozen margaritas, daiquiris and more.

The School District of Philadelphia is taking applications from educators who believe they have a good plan to improve individual schools.

Two leaders of a West Philadelphia mosque are accused of trying to sever a suspected thief's hand with a machete after he allegedly stole money from prayer jars.

A convicted murderer accused of having persuaded a woman to bring two girls to visit him in a northeastern Pennsylvania prison so he could molest them has been sentenced to additional prison time and fined.