Philadelphia PA

City officials will rename the corner of Ninth and Clearfield streets after the Philly rapper LGP Qua, who was killed during an attempted robbery in May. The dedication ceremony, set for Saturday, will rechristen two blocks in North Philly's Fairhill neighborhood. The section of Ninth Street between Clearfield Street...

The Philadelphia Police Department is asking for the public’s help to locate 13-year-old Ade “Day Day” Johnson, who was last seen yesterday around 5:00 p.m. on the block of Manheim Street. According to the Philadelpohia Police Department release, Ade may travel to New York using Amtrak services, a detail that could...

M. Buono Beef Company is closing after 79 years of providing meat to businesses in the Philadelphia area.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. Charlotte Safrit was only 42 when she started experiencing intense episodes of sweating and feeling overheated. The symptoms began shortly after she had a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation...

Bala Cynwyd billionaire Jeff Yass donates $100M to fund tuition-free education at Austin’s free-speech-focused university. Jeff Yass, co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, is once again making headlines, this time in higher education, writes Jessica Priest for The Texas Tribune. The Bala Cynwyd billionaire...

This month, Unite Here Local 274, a labor union of nearly 4,000 private sector hotel and food service workers, is going on strike. After 17 months without a new contract, Unite Here is demanding that their member’s salaries rise with inflation and that their workplace conditions improve. On the...

Surveillance footage obtained by Action News showed a man and woman arguing near the 2600 block of Bouvier Street. Police believe they were fighting over a parking spot.

Meek Mill announced that he will play a one-night only concert in his hometown of Philadelphia at the Xfinity Mobile Arena on December 7th, featuring an as-of-yet unannounced list of special guests joining Meek for the special show. The concert announcement reads that “this one-night-only performance will celebrate...

The City of Philadelphia has been working to clean up Kensington for several years now, but in the process, people who once lived on the streets there are moving to other cities. And, outreach groups are losing track of the people they were working to take care of. NBC10’s Johnny...

42 million people — about 1 in 8 Americans — rely on SNAP. Locally, that includes nearly 2 million people in Pa., with roughly 685,000 in the Philadelphia region, and more than 800,000 in New Jersey. Here’s how to find other free food resources in the Philly region...