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Thomas Alva Edison High School students walked out of class Monday afternoon.

Philadelphia City Council is gearing up to tighten the rules on landlord retaliation, weighing a pair of bills that would make it tougher to push out tenants who speak up about unsafe living conditions. The housing committee is set to reconsider the measures on Wednesday as part of a broader Safe Healthy Homes...

PHILADELPHIA - Police say a vehicle detached from a tow truck and crashed head-on into Jason Harvey as he rode his motorcycle on Frankford Avenue Saturday afternoon, killing him. The driver did not stop, and investigators are now searching for that person. Police search for driver after deadly crash on...

Pennsylvania’s March Last Call: The Beloved Bars and Taverns Closing This Month. The first few days of March have been particularly heavy for regular patrons and industry workers alike. Here are the most significant closures hitting the Commonwealth:. 1. Miller’s Ale House (Philadelphia) In one of the most...

Two elected constables in the Philadelphia suburbs quietly signed on last year to a federal program that deputizes local officers to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Lansdowne's constable and the Honey Brook constable entered memorandums of agreement with ICE in 2025, a move that has alarmed county leaders...

A narrow strip of land in Abington is at the center of a legal dispute between neighbors over property rights. A narrow strip of land in an Abington neighborhood has become the focus of an unusual property dispute involving the PA Governor, writes The Washington Post. At issue is a...

As the 5th anniversary of Chuckie Maude's death nears, his family continues to seek justice and has started a nonprofit to help others facing similar loss.

Five years after Charles "Chuckie" Maude III was gunned down while sitting in his car in Port Richmond, his family says time has done nothing to dull the pain. Maude, 24, was found shot on the 3200 block of Emerald Street on March 12, 2021, and died two days later, leaving behind two young daughters. In the years...

CAMDEN, NJ — The Camden County Police Department is searching for a missing 32-year-old man last seen in the Cramer Hill neighborhood. Joshua Lopez, of Camden, was reported missing from his home on the 700 block of North 27th Street. He is described as a black male, 5 feet...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. Philadelphia’s municipal pension-plan system is being hailed as a success story by city officials as it makes progress toward full funding. In the last decade, the city’s...