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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.

The new Fringe Arts headquarters is located on Columbus Boulevard, near Race Street.

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.