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Today, during a visit to Philadelphia, members of a state regulatory agency heard firsthand accounts from taxicab drivers and approved a proposal to put security cameras in all cabs operating in the city.

One suspect was detained Thursday after a doctor and two other people were shot inside a clinic on a hospital complex outside Philadelphia, police said.

BY TONY WEST/ Time is not kind to Gov. Tom Corbett's reelection hopes. The Pennsylvania that harbors his political base is not growing.

Anne Feild Elder, 92, formerly of Jenkintown, a civic volunteer for a half-century, died Sunday, July 13, of dementia at Rydal Park, a retirement community where she had lived since 2001.

A study released by the National Park Service shows Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia continues to play a critical role in boosting the city's economy.

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.