New Pop-Up Garden Opens On South Street
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has transformed a vacant lot on South Street near 15th Sreet into a lush, shaded, pop-up garden.
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The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has transformed a vacant lot on South Street near 15th Sreet into a lush, shaded, pop-up garden.
More than 20,000 members of one of the country's oldest African American fraternity's have converged in Philadelphia this weekend -- and their focus is service.
Paul Isenberg and his buddy Tim Sherry founded the nonprofit in 2008 after Isenberg's wife, Nicole, died from Hodgkins Disease.
Yaron Sideman, the counsul general of Israel in Philadelphia, told the crowd at 19th and JFK Boulevard that Hamas has been indiscrimately firing rockets and missiles into Israel.
In-kind donations have poured in to help the displaced victims of the fire that killed four young children last Saturday, but the current focus is on money for funerals and resettlement expenses.
A new mural honors the memories of two hometown heroes who died fighting a five-alarm warehouse fire in East Kensington in 2012.
"The issues today, of cyberbullying and hate speech and harassment, they present real challenges," said Judge Marjorie Rendell, who knows about challenging First Amendment issues.
This year, for the first time ever, the first concert of the series will be free for military personnel, police, and firefighters.
Members of the Southwest Philadelphia community devastated by last weekend's fatal fire took their outrage to City Hall Wednesday evening.
33-percent of Philadelphians don't own cars. In New York, number one on the list, the percentage of households without a vehicle is nearly 57-percent.
KYW's Pat Loeb reports that's not necessarily bad news.
A restaurant owner in Montgomery County claims he's being forced out of his lease unfairly and has taken to Facebook in an effort to save his business.
As if temperatures in the 90s weren't bad enough, Tuesday night's powerful storm knocked out power in several Bucks County communities.
The ringing bells and the iconic red kettles are a sign that need has no season.
Ambassador Sulunteh was critical of Mayor Nutter, specifically the mayor's claim that the some in the Liberian community have spread misinformation about the fire department's response time.
The Haddonfield Crafts and Fine Art Festival returns for its 22nd year, July 12th and 13th.
Samira is a very active 12-year-old.
Chester County is one of the highest-income counties in the United States, but there are thousands of low-income people there, too.
The Philadelphia Police Foundation presented police commissioner Charles Ramsey with a $45,000 grant to fund the Police Supervisory In-Service Training program, better known as "POSIT."
Khari Siegfried, 26, has been competing in pageants for ten years but never thought that road would lead her to her birth parents.
The family is hoping their story will encourage other families to consider organ donation.
Gallup says that percentage is actually down – way down – since the 1950s, when 82% said religion was the solution to the problems of the era.
The city has about 900 sites open throughout the summer to give kids under the age of 18 a free lunch at noon, and snacks at 3pm.
There were heavy hearts at a Sunday morning service in Southwest Philadelphia. It was held in a church on on the same block of the deadly house fire that killed four young children and displaced dozens of residents.
There were big smiles on the faces of the children as they got off the bus in Doylestown. They come from all five boroughs of New York City.
