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The new commissioner of the nation's fourth-largest city police force will start work Monday amid a surge in homicides and calls for action to address…
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Pennsylvania is marshaling more money to help pay for better water treatment in suburban Philadelphia communities where testing has shown tap water…
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Authorities say more charges are likely to be filed in the case of a Philadelphia man accused of barricading himself inside a city row house and shooting…
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An hourslong standoff where a gunman shot at police, wounding six of them, as he was barricaded inside a Philadelphia home somehow ended with no…
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Athletes around the world are getting ready for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo next year, but in Philadelphia, there’s a group of rowers with a much…
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Philadelphia transportation officials are considering charging motorists to pass through busy sections of the city.But not until they see how the recently…
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The City of Brotherly Love was once revolutionary when it came to clean streets, gutters and sidewalks. Benjamin Franklin launched one of America's first…
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The U.S. government is intervening to stop the creation of a medical facility in Philadelphia where people could inject heroin without risk of overdose. Canada and Europe already have such sites.
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Every day, roughly 300,000 people commute to Pittsburgh for work. They rely on city roads to get there and city police and fire to ensure their safety…
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The Philadelphia Flyers' mascot looks like something that would hide under your bed as a child. "Gritty may be a hideous monster," says the city's official resolution, "but he is our hideous monster."