Philadelphia News

By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent HARRISBURG - Inside Pennsylvania's liquor privatization debate, everyone wants a taste.

The Roots will be on hand for the unveiling of a new mural painted in their honor in their hometown of Philadelphia.

Comedy-activist troupe "The Panic Hour" and activist advocate Shield Mutual are supporting a rally Thursday May 23, 2013 at the James A. Byrne federal courthouse at 601 Market St.

Pennsylvania State Police say they still don't know the whereabouts of a suburban Philadelphia college student who disappeared while returning home from the University of Rhode Island.

Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder.

A brief exchange of comments videotaped during an effort to reach out to Latino leaders last week in Philadelphia has created a new wave of controversy for Gov.

Members from this year's Leadership Philadelphia Core Class came together on May 13th to host a benefit for Mighty Writers, a group dedicated to improving the writing skills and literacy of Philadelphia's youth.

Some 200 moms filled up on oven roasted chicken, greens, potato salad, biscuits and punch, during Councilman Johnson's Mother's Day Ball.

President George Washington had fourteen copies of the Bill of Rights drawn up back in 1789 - one for the federal government and one for each of the 13 states.

A Philadelphia police officer is nabbed in a federal sting. Authorities say he planted drugs to set up a dealer, then rob him.

Brokenhearted skateboarders long banned from Philadelphia's internationally renowned shredding paradise of Love Park may have a new object of affection: Paine's Park.

Philadelphia Police are searching for Henry Pettigrew, 21, who they suspect shot up a strip-club with an AK-47 on May 11.

Former hero Philadelphia Police Officer Richard DeCoatsworth is being held in a prison cell reserved for the city's most dangerous criminals.

This year's Philadelphia Flower Show ended with a loss of about $1.2 million, and officials are blaming fears of a winter snowstorm during the week of the show that they say were whipped up by television and radio reports.

On Tuesday, Bob Allen, Director of Property and Concessions Management for Philadelphia Parks and Rec, confirmed to NewsWorks that Parks and Rec has officially withdrawn its proposal for a treetop adventure course in Wissahickon Valley Park.

The first shooting on the streets of Philadelphia had deadly consequences. A teenager was shot outside a Rita's Water Ice in the West Oak Lane section of the city just before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The smattering of city voters who went to the polls for Tuesday's primary picked 12 would-be judges, including three potential new members of Traffic Court, an institution so steeped in corruption that state lawmakers are trying to abolish it.

"Everywhere I was today, turnout was fairly low," said City Commissioners Cochairman Al Schmidt.

The family of a 5-year-old girl who was abducted from a West Philadelphia classroom and sexually assaulted at a nearby house plans to sue the Philadelphia School District, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday.

On May 2, 1908, as he strolled along the Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Bayard Long collected a flowering sprig of redbud.