Parc’s Jason Goodman is going to be the new man in the kitchen at Farmers’ Cabinet. Expect a menu with lots of meat on bones […]
Thanks to a recent spate of youth violence that has drawn national media attention and led to a rather tenuous standoff between Mayor Michael Nutter […]
On June 26th, 49-year-old James Craig Anderson was beaten by teenagers in a parking lot in Jackson, Miss. Then one of them, Deryl Dedmon, got […]
Today the jury goes back to work in the Danieal Kelly case. Given the facts of the case, I would not want to be on that […]
In a perfect world we wouldn’t need a Caylee’s Law, but we do. Or at least we did. The law, inspired by an online petition, […]
Three recent high-profile criminal cases show how the justice system is uneven and unpredictable. The acquittal of Casey Anthony, the mom accused of killing her […]
Forget about America’s ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya with nearly 7,500 of our fellow citizens dead. Forget about the country’s $14.3 trillion debt […]
So the jurors have spoken, and to the horror and revulsion of just about everybody, they found Casey Anthony not guilty of charges that she […]
This has been a crazy, violent week in Philadelphia: marauding teens, a guy firing into a crowded bar after being kicked out for smoking, and […]
June 17th marked the 40th anniversary of the dumbest—and most unsuccessful—war in U.S. history. It was on that date in 1971 when Criminal-in-Chief, I mean […]
The name Mohan Varughese might not sound familiar, but maybe you heard about his tragic story this week. On Monday, the 23-year-old was shot to […]
My wife—better known to Philadelphia as wildly popular former Fox 29 anchor Dawn Stensland-Mendte, and now even more popular in my home in her current […]
April was a busy time for the Royal Couple. Preparations had been underway for months to deal with all the publicity that was sure to […]
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals was correct when, on April 26th, it ruled that Mumia Abu-Jamal should not be executed as a result of […]
The findings in the grand jury report on sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia are bad enough: priests showing pornography to minors entrusted to […]
