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An American aid worker rescued by Navy SEALs in Somalia was a student leader at her Christian grade school, attended a religious college in suburban Philadelphia and "fell in love with Africa" while doing student teaching in Nairobi.
Three men were arrested and charged with murder in the fatal beating of a man who had been trying to hail a cab after leaving a bar just a few blocks from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia's historic district, police said.
For decades, the identity of Judy Lewis' parents was one of the best-kept secrets in Hollywood.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has been re-elected to a second four-year term in office.
Authorities in Virginia have wrapped up their investigation into the death of a woman who had been in the care of a benefits fraud suspect charged with locking four mentally disabled adults in a filthy Philadelphia basement.
An anonymous tip led to an undercover prostitution bust at the clubhouse of one of the city's famed Mummers brigades, with two club officials and 11 others arrested amid a clubhouse raid, police said Wednesday.
Federal agents on Thursday raided a Boeing plant that makes military helicopters in a Philadelphia suburb and charged more than three dozen people with distributing or trying to get prescription drugs, among them powerful painkillers.
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor returned to the National Constitution Center on Friday to commemorate the 224th anniversary of the document's signing and promote the importance of civics education in a ceremony that was far less dramatic than her first appearance there eight years ago.
The painful images and graphic stories of repeated violent assaults and vandalism by mobs of black teenagers had gotten to be too much for Mayor Michael Nutter.
A court-appointed monitor will oversee city police officers' use of "stop and frisk" searches, a high-profile part of the mayor's efforts to combat violent crime, according to a settlement agreement announced Tuesday.
Just a few years ago, federal authorities thought they had the Philadelphia-area mob close to sleeping with the fishes: One boss had turned government informant, his successor was convicted of racketeering and the underworld organization seemed in disarray.
A federal judge has denied bail for a reputed underboss in Philadelphia's La Cosa Nostra.
His predecessor was known as the tough cookie, but few would accuse Seth Williams of timidity after a little more than a year as top prosecutor in the nation's fifth-largest city.
Pennsylvania's growing gambling industry could surpass struggling Atlantic City, N.J., to become the nation's second-largest gambling market sometime next year, an analyst told a gambling forum Tuesday.
A Pennsylvania utility executive said at a congressional hearing Monday that it's possible a leak in a natural gas pipeline developed after an inspection a day before an explosion that killed five people in Allentown last month.
The company whose duck boat sank in the Delaware River in Philadelphia after a barge hit it has lost a bid to resume tours on a smaller river in the city.
A doctor who provided abortions for minorities, immigrants and poor women in a "house of horrors" clinic has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration gave the go-ahead Tuesday to a $5.2 billion expansion of Philadelphia International Airport, a project that will extend two runways, add a fifth and overhaul the layout of one of the country's most congested airports.
A nonprofit conservation group is floating the idea of making a moth-balled ocean liner on the Delaware River part of a long-stalled casino project on the south Philadelphia waterfront.
Keith Urban is trying to make his fans and his family happy this summer.
A civil liberties group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the use of "stop and frisk" searches by Philadelphia police, alleging that the policy is violating the rights of blacks and Latinos who have done nothing wrong.
A suburban Philadelphia philanthropist who believes charity is a powerful incentive thinks he can help get Americans back to work one donation at a time.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak has apparently erased the lead held by Republican Pat Toomey in the race to replace Sen. Arlen Specter, according to a new poll released hours before the candidates participated in their first face-to-face debate.
For years, subway cars have been able to recycle some of the energy created when they brake, turning it into electricity to help power the train or others running on the rails at the same time.
Amtrak on Tuesday unveiled a $117 billion, 30-year vision for a high-speed rail line on the East Coast that would drastically reduce travel times along the congested corridor using trains traveling up to 220 miles per hour.
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