The union that represents the School District of Philadelphia’s blue-collar workers is staging a rally in Center City Philadelphia this morning to protest what it calls the dismantling of public education in the state of Pennsylvania.

Sunoco to restart crude unit at Phila refinery * Full rates expected by the weekend, source said By Janet McGurty NEW YORK May 16 (Reuters) - Sunoco Inc. will restart the fire-damaged crude unit at its 335,000-barrel-per-day refinery in ...

Foreclosure filings declined nationally in April but rose locally, according to RealtyTrac, the California company that tracks the data. RealtyTrac said foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were ...

PARKSIDE - May 19, 2012 (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia Police Officer is recovering from a vicious beating and his alleged attacker is in the same hospital with a gunshot wound. It was a life or death struggle for a Philadelphia Police officer, who was severely ...

New charges await two men with long criminal records who were shot and wounded, one critically, by Philadelphia police officers Saturday in separate confrontations. Vernon Walker, 49,was shot in the leg Saturday afternoon after he pointed a ...

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Sunday announced that it had found two more priests unsuitable for ministry following claims that they had sexually abused a minor. The Archdiocese said it had substantiated the claim against Msgr. George J.

Officials at a Philadelphia synagogue are calling a BB gun attack on the synagogue a hate crime. “What else could it be?” Maxine Goldman, co-president of Congregation Ner Zedek-Ezreth, said Monday morning of the May 10 attack in which dozens ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gio Gonzalez allowed three hits over six innings and Ian Desmond homered and drove in both runs to lead the Washington Nationals to a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night. Gonzalez (6-1), a former ...

Shit, somebody lies to a lawyer every fucking day. It's part of a lawyer's job to figure who's lying to him or her, Mr. Coyne. When one of our clients says they can't find a damning bit of evidence like the hidden list of 35 pedophiles, you know ...

PHILADELPHIA — A flight crew reported that a flare fired into the sky near Philadelphia International Airport came within 50 feet of their aircraft as they prepared to land on Tuesday, according to a radio exchange with the control tower.