Supporters of a Frankford High School junior who was allegedly beaten by two school security officers called on Philadelphia Schools Superintendant Arlene Ackerman today to launch an independent investigation into the incident immediately. Full Story »
An accused murderer who escaped from a city jail on Thanksgiving Day was captured around 3 p.m. this afternoon in Bucks County, police said. Full Story »
A car that appeared to be speeding ran off the road on Route 70 in Cherry Hill and slammed into a utility pole this morning, killing the motorist and a man who just happened to be there, police said. Full Story »
Eighty people have been arrested in the past year in Gloucester County on weapons, drugs and other charges in a statewide operation targeting gangs, guns and violent offenders, the county Prosector's Office announced today. Full Story »
It was nowhere near a white Christmas , just rainy. But yesterday's Christmas carol sing-along and organ concert at Longwood Gardens was a welcome antidote to a gray day and a grim year. Full Story »
Federal prosecutors have charged a Chester County personnel firm with fraudulently obtaining temporary visas and allowing "thousands" of workers to enter the country with illegal documents. Full Story »
More than 100 people rallied yesterday in support of Asian students beaten at South Philadelphia High School earlier this month. Full Story »
Iran says it will try three Americans, including Jeff Fatal of Elkins Park, who have been jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July. Full Story »
Icy conditions on the Blue Route led to the crash of a SEPTA bus yesterday morning that injured 10 passengers. They were taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital, where they were treated, authorities said. Full Story »
The potential paydays keep getting more glorious - even if the odds remain quite daunting. Full Story »
The Camden County Prosecutor's Homicide Unit is investigating the death of a Cherry Hill man who suffered a fatal head injury when he was pushed and fell at a popular tavern in Westmont. Full Story »
State Attorney General Tom Corbett , the front-runner for the Republican nomination for governor, was probably the most whispered-about pol during the Pennsylvania Society weekend in New York City. He has a grand jury investigating corruption charges against various state lawmakers in the so-called Bonusgate affair, which is about using taxpayer money for political purposes. Full Story »
For the second time in three weeks, families in the Upper Pottsgrove area of Montgomery County are reeling from the deaths of two high school students in a nighttime crash of an SUV crowded with teenagers. Full Story »
Martin Fishbein, 73, of Center City, an influential social psychologist who was active with AIDS prevention, died of a heart attack Nov. 27 at Royal Free Hampstead Hospital in London. Full Story »
Former State Rep. William W. Rieger, a fixture in the Pennsylvania legislature and city politics whose later career was marked by controversy, died Friday. He was 87. Full Story »
The sweet-voiced young boys and deep-voiced older boys sang Christmas carols and a Hanukkah medley. All the while their bodies swayed like ripples in the Red Sea. Full Story »
Josh Winheld was 8 when he picked up a pamphlet about his "problem," as they called Duchenne muscular dystrophy in his household, and learned he was going to die young. Full Story »
A lot of nasty things can happen at the bottom of a pile of football linemen. Eye gouging. Spitting. Sucker punches, and so on. All of which should only have helped prepare former football player Richard Negrin, a Philadelphia lawyer, for the beatings he is bound to take in his new job as interim executive director of the Board of Revision of Taxes. Full Story »
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter said yesterday that a Senate subcommittee would conduct a preliminary inquiry into an Inquirer report that the Philadelphia courts are in crisis. Full Story »
Steven Goldstein was in his element. As a line of same-sex marriage advocates stretched out the door of a spacious Statehouse committee room, the high-energy Goldstein, in a navy suit and white yarmulke, was inside, stage-managing the scene before a public vote and working political levers for his cause. Full Story »
Musician Richard Malvin Slater, 87, of Norristown, died Nov. 25 of a heart attack at home.A 1940 graduate of Norristown High School, Mr. Slater studied music privately and began his career as a drummer before enlisting in the Navy during World War II. Full Story »
Witness intimidation pervades the Philadelphia criminal courts, increasingly extracting a heavy toll in no-show witnesses, recanted testimony and collapsed cases. Full Story »
States have begun restricting the perks that drug and medical-device manufacturers can give doctors, aiming to keep the companies from influencing prescription habits and treatment plans. New Jersey could become the first to make doctors accountable. Full Story »
Monica Yant Kinney: On a comedy special five years ago, Chris Rock suggested that every father's goal must be to keep his little girl "off the pole." Watching MTV's new horror show, 'Jersey Shore,' I respectfully disagree. Full Story »
Officials of Philadelphia's Human Relations Commission are pulling together a meeting for tomorrow morning to mediate racial and ethnic tensions at South Philadelphia High School that erupted Dec. 3 with attacks on about 30 Asian immigrant students. Full Story »
A 6-day-old sheep relaxes with its mother at a zoo in Tokyo, Dec. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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