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A Philadelphia man was sentenced to seven years in prison for four bank robberies in the city over a two-week span in 2024, officials said on Monday. Joseph Perkins, 31, plead guilty to four counts of bank robbery after a series of thefts in late August and early September of last year, officials said.

Late Saturday night, the quiet of Quincy Hollow on Quickset Road in Levittown shattered in a hail of gunfire, leaving one man dead and two others injured. Officers from Middletown Township Police responded to an armed-person call just after 10:30 p.m. on July 12—a routine dispatch that quickly escalated when shots...

On Monday, July 7, 2025, at approximately 12:57 a.m., officers from the Philadelphia Police Department’s 17th District responded to a call for a person with a gun on the 1500 block of South Etting Street in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia. When officers arrived, they found multiple victims suffering...

The Philadelphia Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating 16-year-old Tynasia McMillan, who was last seen leaving her residence on the 2300 block of Edgley Street on Monday, July 8, 2025, at approximately 10:30 AM. Tynasia is described as a Black female, 5’00” tall, and weighing...

Allenwood, Pa. — A Philadelphia man on the Megan's Law registry was charged after police discovered he had an older Union County address on file. Kevin Best, 58, was recently arraigned on three felony charges of failure to update address. District Judge Jeffrey Mensch in Mifflinburg set bail at $25,000. Trooper Troy...

The wife allegedly told officers her husband was unusually eager to take out the trash a day before the alleged crime.

Family and friends of 35-year-old Tatiana Vargas sniffled and sobbed through the sentencing hearing of Abuid Torres, who shot and killed Vargas on Dec. 23, 2023, in front of her 11-year-old son in Kensington.

Philadelphia health inspectors cited three restaurants during routine inspections on July 11. The food establishments must correct the violations and notify the department to resume regular operations. Please note that the reports mentioned here are from a particular inspection conducted on July 11 and may not...

Bruce Zeiger is taking a curtain call after more than a half century serving sheets and smiles in Southwest Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA - A New York City man has been identified as the driver of a tractor-trailer cab that crashed through a concrete barrier and off the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Zair Murzakov, 35, was behind the wheel of a Bobtail tractor-trailer cab that crashed and plummeted into the Delaware River early Friday morning.