Senior LGBT Housing Project Set To Open Next Month in Center City
Residents are expected to begin moving into the $19-million John C. Anderson Apartments, at 13th and Spruce Streets, in just a couple of weeks.
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Residents are expected to begin moving into the $19-million John C. Anderson Apartments, at 13th and Spruce Streets, in just a couple of weeks.
Not all charities are created equal, warns Mark Boyd, CEO of Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia.
The tumultuous year of 1963 included the March on Washington, Dr. King's historic speech, and the assassination of Pres. Kennedy.
Dennis Sullivan, 67, was the former vicar-general in the New York archdiocese.
Project HOME offers the homeless a Catholic mass, right at the main shelter in Fairmount, drawing people from all walks of life.
Traditionally, there's not a lot that's open on Christmas Day, but the National Museum of American Jewish History was.
Faith Carlin (right) received a new kidney and a new pancreas in the early '90s, and now is an ambassador for the "Gift of Life" organ donation program.
On May 17th, a city-sponsored job fair for ex-offenders was abruptly canceled when thousands of applicants swarmed the Municipal Services Building.
The Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House has a daylong Christmas celebration for residents of its shelter and other military vets who are down on their luck.
Bishop Joseph McFadden, a West Philadelphia native who had been serving as the shepherd of the Harrisburg diocese since August 2010, died after being rushed to a local hospital.
December 26th marks the first day of Kwanzaa, and community groups in Philadelphia are gearing up for a big celebration on Saturday.
It was a celebration of the spirit of Christmas in Montgomery County Tuesday night, where volunteers served up a holiday feast for hundreds of families in need.
Christmas Eve services took place all around the Delaware Valley Tuesday, including at historic Christ Church in Old City -- where the kids were the stars of the show.
That new police force in Camden, New Jersey -- run by the county -- was beefed up last weekend, with the addition of 89 graduates from the county police academy.
Many people lined up outside of Delaware County SPCA in Media to adopt a pet in time for Christmas.
Without action from Congress, action that isn't expected, Hamilton will join nearly 200,000 people in the Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey who are about to lose special unemployment benefits that will shrink from 63 weeks of coverage to 26.
This is the fourth year for "Operation Holiday Help" by the group Unity in the Community.
Toys for children of needy families were arranged by age and gender on tables set up in the gymnasium at Salvation Army headquarters in Wynnefield.
The lines were long outside the famous cheese, pasta, sausage, meat, fish, bread, and pastry shops, where many were picking up the perfect antipasto.
Meek Mill delivered some awesome gifts to youngsters in Southwest Philadelphia.
Mentoring tour guide Ben Bookman says even when the prison, at 21st Street and Fairmount, was a working penitentiary, Christmas was a special time -- even for the prisoners.
The Philadelphia Parking Authority has received state permission to issue 150 new taxicab medallions, each of which could fetch $400,000.
There are some sections of Philadelphia that have long had scores of hungry residents, but one local church leader who serves a ten zip code region of the city's Northeast section says this situation exists in every city zip code.
Former boxer Paul "Earthquake" Moore, a Philadelphia native, spent his young days without, so he's devoted his adult life to making sure others have more.
A Philadelphia non-profit that grooms young African American men for professional life held it's fourth annual "Reason for the Season" Saturday.
