Suit: Marine's Body Sent Home To Pa. Without Heart
The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say his heart was missing when his body arrived home in Pennsylvania for burial.
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The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say his heart was missing when his body arrived home in Pennsylvania for burial.
Friends of a South Jersey woman with cancer have teamed up to raise funds for her treatment.
Check the long list of community cancellations received by CBS Philly for Tuesday, December 10, 2013.
About 40 activists braved snow and cold during the noon hour outside a center city office tower, to protest a fracking-related project at the headquarters of the firm behind it.
Opponents of the plan, chanting "Save the Boyd," braved the snow to rally around saving the entire theatre rather than just the façade.
The Philadelphia Streets Department says that it is continuing its snow-fighting efforts into the afternoon.
Don't leave your pets in the cold. That's the advice from animal rights group PETA, which sent out an advisory on keeping animals safe when the mercury drops.
While the snow is keeping many people at home and many businesses closed, one Philadelphia museum is offering visitors a deal to brave the weather.
The number of nuns at the Monastery of the Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary, on Haddon Avenue, had fallen to four, and the order made a change of address.
"This is not something we get every day, " said fire commissioner Lloyd Ayers at the presentation of a check for $59,110 from the Insurance Society of Philadelphia.
"I was a volunteer for two years, and I worked four jobs just so I could pay my rent," says Craft. "It's been a struggle, but it's incredible to see how it's benefiting these kids."
It's a collection of trees designed and decorated by different groups around the area, on display in the hotel's historic rotunda lobby.
Montgomery County's Child Advocacy Center has received critical funding that officials say will be used to expand the training they provide to better protect children.
The Cooper River will be dredged beginning next July and that means the rowing community is going to have to look for other venues for 2014.
A new long-term lease between SEPTA and the city for properties like the Broad Street Subway and the Suburban Station concourse gained initial approval this past week in City Council, but some lawmakers are unhappy with parts of the deal involving advertising revenue.
A newly released independent study on New Jersey's parole system suggests it could use some work.
The Philadelphia 76ers recognized Montgomery County's First Assistant District Attorney this week as one of their "Heroes Among Us" and it came as quite a surprise to the recipient.
Pearl Harbor has become the centerpiece of a personal mission for the Kimmel family of Wilmington.
"You're gonna travel back in time and experience life on the western front for the Battle of Schmidt, which took place in the fall of 1945," says Beth Beatty, the executive director at Fort Mifflin.
Aboard the Battleship New Jersey on the Camden waterfront, a ceremony was held that included one of the dwindling number of remaining Pearl Harbor survivors.
The nonprofit Philadelphia Children's Alliance is purchasing a mobile camera, tripod, and a laptop computer thanks to a grant from the Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Seven needy patients were receiving valuable holiday gifts at Rothman Institute in Bensalem: free knee and hip surgeries.
Dozens walked off their jobs across the United States in 100 cities.
Archaeologists are now at work as the mystery deepens into seven coffins and human remains found under a North Philadelphia schoolyard.
Villanova students couldn't help but pause at the hundreds of t-shirts comprising the "Memorial to the Lost," each with the name and age of a victim.
