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Philadelphia Police are looking for an attacker who stabbed a 50-year-old man in Strawberry Mansion.

A Greenville spokesperson confirmed that Saunsiree Jefferson who was wanted out of Greenville was arrested during a warrant roundup in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, August 19. The operation involved the FBI, Philadelphia Police Department, Greenville Violent Criminal Apprehension Team, and the North Carolina State...

Donna Allie’s 700-plus employees work throughout Philadelphia, at all hours of the day and night. They clean City Hall and the Municipal Services Building, public schools and charter schools, and all kinds of office buildings. They earn low wages to vacuum and empty wastebaskets after dark, when they won’t...

It's a community that, neighbors said, was in crisis. For years, Geraldine Brown, who lives near the intersection of 52nd and Arch streets in West Philadelphia, said her community has been a hotspot for crime. "You hear the gunfire. Everybody ducking down in their own homes, because you don’t know...

At just 12-years-old, Omari Everett-Mitchell had a magnetic personality that captivated hearts.

SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said an argument broke out between two men on a bus in Frankford just before 5 p.m. One man then got off the bus and fired into it at the man he was arguing with.

This story was originally reported by Nadra Nittle of The 19th. As a “pink-collar profession” — a nickname given to women-dominated occupations — teaching has historically paid less than comparable fields requiring a higher education degree, and in Philadelphia, the push to close the wage gap could lead to a strike...

Action News had a chance to meet a very special pair of educators as they prepared their classrooms.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. The Philadelphia School District and area universities are preparing for SEPTA’s service cuts that could disrupt the commutes for thousands of students on Monday, Aug. 25, the district’s first day of...

Philadelphia Museum Human Remains Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved A medical museum in Philadelphia has redrawn its policies on the collection and display of human remains, limiting its acceptance of additional specimens and working to follow “evolving modern medical ethical standards” in how...