Christina School Board approves split tax rate, keeps 10% tax rate hike
Christina School District residents will see a split tax rate between residential and non-residential property taxes. Christina School Board also maintained the 10% post-reassessment tax rate increase at Thursday’s special meeting. The district’s chief financial officer Bob Vacca explained the move to keep the tax...
Villanova University hoax caller sought by FBI, local authorities
Villanova senior Ava Petrosky was part of a group singing at the ceremony when she saw people in the crowd begin to run.
West Chester Tattoo Artist Who Used to be Homeless Now Has Thousands of Fans...
Gia Rose, a 40-year-old tattoo artist in West Chester, has endured hardships throughout the beginning of her life, but she didn’t let them stop her from opening one of the first woman-owned tattoo studios in the nation, reports staff from 6ABC. She left home at the age of 16,...
Christiana Mall in Newark, DE: Rise, Changes, and the Mall It Became
Christiana Mall opened its doors on October 12, 1978, developed by the Rubin Company and New Castle Associates on former farmland outside Newark. The first anchor, Strawbridge & Clothier, debuted a month earlier in September 1978, drawing shoppers with a tall clock tower and indoor fountains. Bamberger's followed in...
Man was selling narcotics out of his corner store, N.J. cops say
A business owner is facing drug distribution charges after police say they found narcotics were being sold out of his corner store in South Jersey. Jose R. Nunez, 41, of Camden, was arrested last week on various charges related to distributing the illicit drugs out of Duran Grocery, the Camden County Police...
Thousands come together for Community Appreciation Day in South Philly
Thousands of people came together for a Community Appreciation Day in South Philadelphia that also helped kids prepare for school.
3 Philly men arrested in connection with multi-county retail theft ring
Officials say members of the group would walk out of the stores without paying for the items then immediately take them to a co-conspirator in Philadelphia, who would sell the items below market value at porch sales in the city.
3rd arrest made in deadly Grays Ferry mass shooting that left 3 dead, 9...
Philadelphia police have announced a third arrest in the deadly July mass shooting in the Grays Ferry section.
‘We have peace’: West Philly block sees rebirth after years as crime hotspot
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...
North Philadelphia neighborhood honors the life of 12-year-old boy who died in fire
At just 12-years-old, Omari Everett-Mitchell had a magnetic personality that captivated hearts.