It’s always a bad thing when an elected official accepts a bribe. But in the case of Reading, Pennsylvania, City Council President Francis Acosta, he […]
A duo counterfeited fake SEPTA TransPasses and sold more than 2,000 of them in and around City Hall, federal prosecutors said. The fake passes — […]
In the Tom Cruise film Minority Report, authorities didn’t wait for crime to just happen. They peered into the future, decided who was going to […]
Things got a little rowdy outside of Club Risque in South Philadelphia not long ago, and now the Philadelphia Police Department is asking for the […]
Two days after the non-robotic hitchBOT was savagely murdered on the streets of Philadelphia, overtaking the deaths of that lion in Africa in the social consciousness, […]
When you dip your bank card into an ATM machine, you probably expect that your bank information is being kept safe and private, but police […]
22-year-old mother Stephanie Dzikowski was killed overnight in Port Richmond, police say. Her 2-year-old daughter was home but uninjured. “Neighbors here in the 3000 block of Aramingo […]
Philadelphia police now say the 5-year-old girl abducted from a North Philadelphia home by an intruder was also sexually assaulted. The incident happened Tuesday morning […]
We see lots of candidates for World’s Dumbest (Alleged) Criminals here at Philadelphia magazine, but this week’s winner has got to be 20-year-old Connor Kennedy […]
There’s an old saying that goes: There’s no such thing as bad publicity. We’re not entirely sure who coined that phrase, but we’re fairly certain […]
Police say Robert Ritter, a New Jersey man wanted on armed robbery charges, led them on a two-hour police chase Monday night through two states […]
Alex Capasso has long been a part of the Philadelphia-area restaurant scene. He worked at Georges Perrier’s Brasserie Perrier before opening the acclaimed Blackbird Dining […]
Hours of police surveillance footage streams by every week, and so we have seen plenty of odd criminal disguises. Just today the police released footage […]
If you live in the Tacony neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia and you’re missing some mail, the United States Department of Justice might have the answer. […]
The victim of the early morning July 18th shooting at Danny’s Midnight Confessions — the well-known adult shop on 13th Street in the Philadelphia Gayborhood — has […]
