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Deputies took a woman into custody after she turned herself in on a welfare fraud warrant in Cayuga County. Ricketta C. Taylor, 28, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, surrendered at the Public Safety Building on December 9. Deputies arrested her on a warrant issued out of Auburn City Court, according to the Cayuga County...

A small island in the Schuylkill River that can be seen when strolling along the path behind the Fairmount Water Works has been adopted by a local woman and now has an official name: Isle of Jean, writes Nick Jaramillo for Billy Penn at WHYY. The island, which can be...

Investigators say four men wearing dark clothing and masks stole an unknown number of items from the units.

Central Detective Division is seeking the public’s help identifying the individuals seen in the following video clips. On Monday, December 8, 2025, at approximately 12:00AM, two unknown black males assaulted the victim, a 15 year-old male, while waiting for a westbound train ultimately taking the complaint’s Moncler...

A man is being sought by police in Philadelphia after he was captured on surveillance footage after breaking into a shop in Christmas Village at LOVE Park on Friday. Police shared footage of the suspect on social media on Wednesday. According to police, the break-in depicted in the footage happened...

PHILADELPHIA - Investigators are working to learn if two overnight shootings in Philadelphia that left one man dead and another injured are connected. Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the 1300 block of Johnson Street shortly after midnight for reports of a shooting. Police found a...

A man is dead and another is in the hospital in critical condition after a double shooting in East Germantown overnight. Police are investigating.

Chopper 6 was over the scene as the vacant home collapsed while firefighters worked to bring the blaze under control.

The Philadelphia Police Department is urgently seeking the public's assistance in finding Niko Dickerson, an endangered missing person whose last known contact was in November 2025, after returning to Philadelphia from North Carolina the previous September. According to the official police bulletin, Niko Dickerson,...

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