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A fast-moving fire at an apartment building in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood left four people hurt and sent residents fleeing into the bitter cold.

A 33-year-old woman was charged Thursday in the death of a toddler whose body was found partially buried in a North Philadelphia park earlier this week, police said.

Officers found the body of a missing 2-year-old girl as they scoured a North Philadelphia park before dawn Tuesday, Philadelphia police said.

The leader of the Pennsylvania Republican party is accusing a teacher at Central High School of circulating liberal fliers to students. Now students are speaking out as the School District of Philadelphia investigates.

The chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party is accusing a teacher at a Philadelphia high school of circulating fliers with a liberal message to students.

A teen girl is recovering after she was struck by a stray bullet while walking to Central High School in Philadelphia. As the girl recovers, her classmates are speaking out.

A girl’s normal walk to Central High School in Philadelphia ended with her being caught in the crossfire of a gun battle Monday morning.

A teenage student on her way to school darted inside Philadelphia’s iconic Central High School after being caught in the crossfire of a nearby shooting Monday morning.

A former city worker for Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her boyfriend while the couple was in a moving car.

One of the most recognizable openings in television history blares on a video screen: “I’m Oprah Winfrey, and welcome to The Oprah Winfrey Show!” The crowd goes wild. At the center of it all, a dancing young Oprah. This moment, televised more than 30 years ago, is now part of a yearlong exhibition that opened Friday at the Smithsonian National...

Student activism is on full display Wednesday as students in the Philadelphia region and beyond walked out of their classrooms to mark the one-month anniversary of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting.

A 19-year-old student charged with fatally shooting his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory had been acting so strangely the day before the killings that campus police talked to his mother and then took him to a hospital for suspected drug abuse, authorities said Saturday. University police Chief Bill Yeagley told reporters that James Eric Davis Jr.’s parents had...

First a Super Bowl champ, then the “Mayor of Philadelphia,” and now a … Mummer? Jason Kelce will prove that he really is a jack of all trades on Sunday when he marches along Main Street in Manayunk in the annual Mardi Gras Parade.

Among the most lasting and indelible images of the civil rights movement were the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through the doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Sept. 25, 1957. It had been three years since the Supreme Court had declared “separate but equal”...

A frightened 18-year-old woman told her boyfriend to call police just before two men attacked her near La Salle University’s campus overnight.

“I really don’t want to shame the city, but the longer that the contract goes unsettled, the worse it is for students,” said George Bezanis

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has published the average composite SAT test scores for public high schools statewide. We’ve put together a ranking of the top-scoring schools in the state.

A Philadelphia teacher has put up a billboard criticizing city and school district officials.

When they met online four years ago, Rick West and Lisa Maciejewski had an immediate connection. They both lost a spouse to cancer and had preteen children who shared a passion for athletics.

The fiancée of the only soldier from Texas killed in last week’s tragic flooding accident at Fort Hood says the couple planned to get married next month.