Prosecutors rested their case today against the Rev. Charles Engelhardt and former lay teacher Bernard Shero on charges the two men sexually abused the same boy […]
The slaying of Melissa Ketunuti—the Philadelphia pediatrician whose burning and bound body was found Monday in her Center City home—is drawing attention from national and […]
That’s what former New York police commissioner William Bratton told the Wall Street Journal in a weekend interview about “the real cures for gun violence.” […]
In a scene no doubt hauntingly familiar to many Philadelphians, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles on Monday apologized for mishandling sex abuse allegations that […]
Two union workers charged with assault at the infamous Goldtex construction site this summer, have been ordered to perform 18 hours of community service and […]
The police aren’t ruling out any suspects in the case of the abducted five-year-old. (Except Dad, who’s in the clear.) Which means tracking down and […]
Back in the 1950s and ’60s, the Civil Rights movement championed the sit-in as a form of protest against racial segregation, a practice seen at […]
Jurors in Bernard Shero’s case today heard testimony about his attempted suicide in 2011, on the same day he’d been expected to turn himself in […]
This probably won’t do much for the city’s reputation: The New York Times pops up with a look at the union thuggery alleged in the […]
Rafael Robb, the former Penn professor of economics who killed his wife in “a moment of madness,” is set to be paroled. Robb was sentenced […]
Flanked by children not much older than those gunned down in Sandy Hook Elementary, President Obama tasked Congress yesterday with passing the most aggressive series […]
You have the right to take pictures and video of Philadelphia police officers as they do their job—provided, of course, you don’t end up interfering […]
6ABC reports the father of a girl kidnapped this week from a West Philadelphia elementary school has been questioned by police. The girl was found, […]
Both of Pennsylvania’s senators have reputations for being Second Amendment types who, as the phrase goes, “clint to their guns”—or, at least, their gun-loving voters. […]
On Monday night, police issued an Amber Alert for a 5-year-old girl who was abducted that morning from an elementary school in West Philadelphia. Her […]
