A bill is progressing through City Hall that would see any commercial business or restaurant — like vape shops, bodegas and take out food shops — in Kensington forced to shutter between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Mayor Cherelle Parker has said she wants to improve Kensington — even suggesting she would bring in the National Guard to police scofflaws. Those in the community welcome change, but don’t necessarily agree that the answer lies in stricter police efforts.

Officials have arrested Kendall Stephens, a 37-year-old activist for the LGBTQ community and she has been charged with multiple counts of rape, sexual assault and corruption of minors.

Flyers that list West is Best candidate Jabari Jones as the Democratic Party nominee — omitting actual nominee incumbent Jamie Gauthier — for the West Philadelphia district.

In a courtroom, that was often quiet, except for the soft sobs from the victim’s family, Paul Burkert, the gunman who killed David Padro, Jr. outside of Pat’s King of Steaks in South Philadelphia in 2021, was sentenced to prison on Wednesday.

Three people were shot and five were injured at the Christiana Mall in Delaware after an altercation that led to a shooting Saturday evening.

An investigation is underway after a man was shot and killed while he was getting a haircut inside a Philadelphia barbershop Thursday afternoon, police said.

A 5-year-old boy is recovering after he shot himself in the leg inside a home in Philadelphia’s Strawberry mansion neighborhood, police said.

Two children have died in an early morning fire that also injured their mother and two firefighters who responded to the incident on Tuesday morning.

A man and woman were both arrested and charged after a young boy was found naked inside a dog cage in a Philadelphia home while two young girls were found partially clothed in the rain in the backyard, police said.