City: Three dozen people taken to treatment amid Kensington encampment cleanup
On Wednesday morning, city workers and members of the Philadelphia Police Department descended on Kensington Avenue to break up an encampment that has existed for several months.
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Philadelphia customs officials seize over 10,000 Xanax pills found inside yarn shipment
Philadelphia Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted over 10,000 Xanax pills uniquely concealed inside spools of yarn in a shipment headed to New York, U.S. Customs and Border Protection an... -
Philadelphia high school teacher killed in murder-suicide, police say
According to police, Ondria Glaze, a special education teacher at Olney High School, was shot to death in her apartment in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia on Sunday.
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Loaded gun found atop slide at South Philly playground
Police recovered a loaded handgun after a woman found it at Weccacoe Playground along Catherine St. in the Queen Village section of South Philadelphia on Monday.
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NJ man pretended to own headstone company, scammed grieving families, officials say
A New Jersey man has been charged after scamming dozens of people by pretending to own a headstone company and then failing to deliver for the grieving families, officials said.
