While addressing Congress on Thursday, Pope Francis took a sip of water from a glass at his side. Afterwards, Congressman Bob Brady stole the glass, brought it back to his office, and drank from it.
Over the past few months, the proud city of Philadelphia has been gearing up for a huge event: the opening of a flagship Wawa in Center City. The pope will be there soon, also.
A Philadelphia police officer has been suspended after pulling over a driver and threatening to impound his car unless he and his friend purchased tickets to a police benefit. The men in the car caught the shakedown on video, along with the officer dropping some casual homophobic slurs before he let them go.
The Philadelphia Police Department had an ambitious idea for an anti-weed PSA—recreate the old Saved by the Bell cast’s ‘90s “there’s no hope with dope” ad, starring police officers as Zack Morris and friends. As you can see, though, it didn’t turn out exactly as the department envisioned.
A South Philadelphia rally that saw demonstrators holding signs that read “White Women’s Lives Matter” and “We Will Not Allow You to Terrorize Our Neighborhood” in response to alleged attacks by a group of black women in the neighborhood was not racially motivated, according to the chief of staff for a city councilman…
On Tuesday, a group of 150 to 200 people including Democratic city councilman Mark Squilla gathered in South Philadelphia displaying signs that read “White women’s lives matter,” “We know who you are,” and “We will not allow you to terrorize our neighborhood.” Ostensibly, the rally was meant to protest police inaction…
The FBI will investigate the possibility that the windshield of the Amtrak train that derailed this week was struck by some kind of projectile before it crashed, the Associated Press reports.
Six Philadelphia narcotics cops were acquitted today on all 26 counts of federal corruption charges against them. The six were arrested in sting operations last year and stood accused of stealing drug money, planting evidence, and abusing suspects.http://gawker.com/six-philly-nar…
Less than 24 hours after an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing at least seven and injuring 50 more, House Republicans voted to approve a funding cut to Amtrak’s budget by about a fifth.
Have you ridden the Amtrak lately? Perhaps you were asked to participate in a survey regarding your experience. If so, please disregard. Following Tuesday night’s accident, Amtrak sent out emails to various customers asking them to please keep all extremely rude comments to themselves.
According to WCAU, at around 9:20 p.m. on Tuesday, an Amtrak train derailed eight to 10 of its cars in Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood. Officials say at least five were killed and around 50 more were injured when the train carrying approximately 243 people crashed.
There’s good news and bad news in Comcast’s alleged mission to improve its worst-in-America customer service. Good: You might actually get a refund after they bill you for equipment you’ve already returned. Bad: You’ll have to sign an agreement never to tell anyone that Comcast overcharged you in the first place.
Subway hero? More like subway hoagie! A man walking in a SEPTA station in Philadelphia on Wednesday fell right onto the tracks. From the video it looks like he was looking at his phone when he slipped. Who came to the rescue in the nick of time? A hero, man, a hero in an Eagles jacket.
A former Philadelphia narcotics cop testified in court today against six of his former co-workers, claiming the group stole drug money and planted evidence "too many times to count" during his nearly 15 years in the department's drug unit.
Maryland police have arrested the Philadelphia woman accused of abandoning her quadriplegic son with cerebral palsy in the woods for over five days, NBC Philadelphia reports. Police say Nyia Parler, 41, left her son on Monday morning with just a blanket and a Bible.
A Philadelphia-area couple was discovered dead in their home by their teen son on Tuesday, bearing what authorities say were "severe" cuts from a chainsaw, the Associated Press reports.
"All I want is a slushie." Like a pint-sized Mike Muir, that's what 4-year-old Annabelle Ridgeway told a Philadelphia city bus driver early Friday morning. Unfortunately, thanks to the selfless actions of him and other annoyingly helpful strangers, Annabelle never fulfilled her icy desire.
I read Akiba Solomon for the first time in the early 2000s when she was a senior editor at The Source magazine. While Akiba's penchant for crafting sentences was on par with some of the greatest scribes of that era, it was her ability to structure features, interviews, and investigative pieces that made the…
In a disturbing story published today by Philadelphia magazine, a woman alleges that the Uber driver that picked her up in Philadelphia's Old City last month "held her arms down, ripped her pants, and raped her."
