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One morning in late August, Elaine Thomas answered the knock on her North Philly home. It was a worker telling her a crew was getting ready to build a house next to hers. "He said, ‘Ma'am I'm going to knock the side alley down,’" the 86-year-old homeowner recalled, referring to the shared covered alleyway between her...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Many Philadelphia school district families with children in autistic support classes have had the same frustrating experience: As their kids have grown up, they’ve had to switch schools at least once to access...

PHILADELPHIA - A simple act of kindness in Point Breeze is making waves as one local woman seeks to thank two strangers who returned her lost purse and wallet. Two people were caught on camera returning a lost purse and wallet they found on a Point Breeze street Saturday night. While it may seem like a small gesture,...

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A man was arrested Sunday morning following a shooting on Interstate 95 that left one person injured, police said. The driver of a silver Honda Accord fired a semiautomatic pistol at the driver of a brown Honda CRV near the Cottman Avenue exit on I-95 North following a road rage incident shortly after 7 a.m.,...

This post features an OpenAI-powered summary derived from the NewsBreak users' discussions on Philadelphia police ID woman killed by alleged speeding driver while crossing street.

A Philadelphia highway patrol officer who was struck by a vehicle and critically injured nearly seven years ago has died.

Amazon is now competing with your local pizza delivery! The company announced a major update to its delivery schedule.

NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia man faces eight years of court supervision after he admitted to taking part in the illegal transfer of four firearms to the leader of a multi-county gun trafficking organization. Emanuel Eduardo Torres, 33, of the 700 block of South 2nd Street, was sentenced in Montgomery...