After years of debate, city breaks ground on $40M North Philly police station, PAL...
Mayor Cherelle Parker and other city leaders broke ground Tuesday on the North Central Public Safety complex, moving forward a contested, years-long effort to build a new police station on Diamond Street. The $40 million facility will incorporate a new home for the 22nd Police District and a Police Athletic...
Feet First Philly offers mini-grants for safer, walkable neighborhoods
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. Feet First Philly is now accepting applications for its Public Space Enhancement Mini-Grant Program, which awards $500 to $2,000 for small, community-led projects that make neighborhoods safer and more...
Philly residents targeted in diversion-style home burglaries by fake workers, police warn
Investigators believe the suspects targeted homes without security cameras, though a nearby surveillance camera captured one of the suspects allegedly involved.
Daughter arrested, charged for nearly beating mother to death in Kensington home
Police say 36-year-old Rebecca Kokat answered the door when officers knocked. It was then that they saw her 67-year-old mother lying on the floor behind her with multiple bruises on her face and arms.
New Report Says Max Security Prison Compound Must Close, Citing Inhumane Conditions
Many people incarcerated at New Jersey State Prison’s West Compound are confined in cells so small they can touch the ceiling and both walls with their arms outstretched, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson. The Department of Corrections did not...
Judge rips city for taking too long to reexamine Ellen Greenberg’s death
Ellen Greenberg was discovered in 2011 inside her Manayunk apartment, where she had been stabbed close to two dozen times.
First private psychiatric hospital in the U.S., still operating in Pennsylvania, over 200 years...
The Friends Hospital at 4641 Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Frankford County) was founded by the Quakers in 1813. Back then, this institution was called the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason.
Warrant Issued: Authorities Searching for Man in Alleged 911 Hoax Case
POTTSTOWN, PA — Lower Pottsgrove Township Police have announced that a warrant has been issued for a Philadelphia man accused of making multiple false calls to 911 regarding a residence in the Rolling Hills neighborhood of Pottstown. According to authorities, 30-year-old Acquille Samir Tucker allegedly placed several...
The ‘Roots’ of Slavery and its Lasting Effects
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In 2021, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities, and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. Today, leadership in America is trying to erase this history. This is Part 6 in the series. Kunta...
Community members celebrate the sights and sounds of Polish culture on Labor Day
Doylestown community members spent their Labor Day celebrating all things Polish.
