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PHILADELPHIA, PA – A 37-year-old man is dead and another injured after a late-night shooting erupted on a South Philadelphia street, police said Wednesday. Officers from the 3rd District responded to reports of a person with a gun just before midnight Tuesday on the 600 block of Mountain Street. When they arrived at...

Parents of Philadelphia students are bracing for the impact of SEPTA’s planned service cuts set to take effect the day before the school district returns to school. On August 24, SEPTA’s planned reductions will include 32 bus routes being eliminated and 16 shortened routes. The cuts come as lawmakers in Harrisburg...

Thousands of people came together for a Community Appreciation Day in South Philadelphia that also helped kids prepare for school.

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Prosecutors announced the arrest of three people in connection with an organized theft ring targeting Home Depot stores in four counties.

Dr. Dave Oxman of Jefferson Hospital is the latest candidate to join the field to run for Pennsylvania's Third Congressional District, which will be open due to the impending retirement of Congressman Dwight Evans. Dr. Dave Oxman, an intensive-care physician and a medical school professor at Thomas Jefferson...

The Philadelphia Police Department has issued an appeal to the public to assist in the search for Dimere Allen, a 16-year-old considered an endangered missing juvenile. According to a statement released by the department, Dimere was last observed on August 18 at around 4:00 PM in the vicinity of the 33xx block of...

The transit agency is finalizing its security plans but remains flexible amid uncertainties surrounding service cuts and the start of the new school year.

A man has been hospitalized after, officials said, he was shot in an incident that happened along Germantown Avenue early Saturday. According to police, the incident happened at about 12:33 a.m. along the 4200 block of Germantown Ave. in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood. In an update around lunchtime on...

PHILADELPHIA - Officials say a data breach at a mental health services company exposed sensitive data belonging to at least 500 people in Philadelphia. Equilibria Mental Health Services said the data breach happened during a phishing attack in June that targeted information belonging to about 500 people in...