Philadelphia News

For the last 13 years, Joan Mazzotti has made a public career of helping low-income, first-generation students from Philadelphia's public high schools get into and through college.

ALUMINUM BASEBALL bats, frying pans and bullhorns made 7th and Arch streets one noisy corner yesterday, as dozens of activists gathered outside the Federal Detention Center to protest arrests they said were made at a marijuana event Saturday.

Philadelphia police last year recommended that charges of witness intimidation be brought against former Officer Richard DeCoatsworth, once hailed as a hero for his work on the force and charged over the weekend with rape, a high-ranking police official said Sunday.

According to police, two suspects entered the home through a kitchen window, duct taped the victims and forced them to open a safe.

According to police, a 20-year-old man was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and torso.

The 2013 show actually fell short about $1.2 million, not an unprecedented event in its 184-year history but a short-term disaster for the many urban "greening" programs it supports.

Two Philadelphia artists who created entirely different bodies of work in their careers but whose art displayed a similarly strong desire for personal expression are being remembered in memorial exhibitions this month and next.

The water is a constant drip, drip, drip, from a leaking, corroding duct at the 8th and Market SEPTA concourse.

FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013, AT 1:11 A.M. EDT - This April 16, 2013 photo shows an American flag sewn on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's death on display at the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library in Philadelphia.

The Foundation's latest project, Black Male Engagement , was formed to combat the "negative narrative" of black and to highlight "the bigger truth that black men are assets to our nation." . The grant program awarded grants to 19 Philadelphia men, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000. They were selected from 125 applicants.

With cries of protest coming from all directions - from dozens of business owners in Council chambers to thousands of public school students marching down Broad Street - a Philadelphia City Council committee advanced a bailout measure Friday for raising $30 million for the School District through a higher Use and Occupancy tax.

Former Philadelphia Police Officer Richard DeCoatsworth was invited to sit next to the First Lady in 2009.

Without great fanfare Friday, the Barnes Foundation gallery marked its first anniversary on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway by permanently installing the famous portrait of its founder, Albert C. Barnes, at the entryway to its even more famous galleries.

A Philadelphia mother is charged with assaulting an 11-year-old girl inside an elementary school.

"Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker," propelled to infamy in a bizarre YouTube interview clip and arrested yesterday for murder, had one last on-screen hurrah at a closed-circuit TV arraignment in Philadelphia tonight.

Ray Liotta plays cold-blooded crime boss Roy DeMeo, who turns Richard Kuklinski into a hit man in "The Iceman." It's the couple's first date, a diner in North Jersey, small talk.

John Stokely is among the first seminarians to be ordained in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia since the conviction of Monsignor William Lynn last summer.

Skateboarders from the Nocturnal Skate Shop team get a chance to try out the new multi-purpose Paine Park by the Art Museum May 14, 2013 prior to its official opening Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

FOR MORE THAN 70 years, Anna Henderson witnessed the transitions on her Powelton block, a few of many changes she has seen in her 113 years.

In its place will be a new restaurant - still unnamed - serving progressive American cuisine.