Police: Coach Opens Fire During Youth Basketball Game In Southwest Philadelphia
It happened around 2 p.m. Saturday at the Christy Recreation Center on the 700 block of South 55th Street.
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It happened around 2 p.m. Saturday at the Christy Recreation Center on the 700 block of South 55th Street.
Police say the 53-year-old victim was punched, kicked, choked and tasered seven times by her abductors during her ordeal.
It happened around 12 a.m. Sunday in the 4900 block of Hoopes Street in the Mills Creek section of the city.
Police say a man in his late 20's was crossing Delaware Avenue, heading toward the Roxxy Nightclub, when he was struck and killed by a dark-colored SUV.
The Philadelphia Police Department Narcotics Bureau arrested dozens this week in the narcotics initiative in the city's East Division, and as KYW's Hadas Kuznits reports, more operations are yet to come.
Gregory Harris was a Penn doctoral student studying the "Occupy" movement when he was tackled and arrested by a Philadelpha police officer.
Officials describe the woman as an Asian female between 30 and 50 years old. She's about 5'1" and 130 lbs with black hair and missing front lower teeth.
Philadelphia police say a drunken taxi driver led them on a chase and crashed through a fence after cursing at an officer who found him asleep at the wheel.
Federal authorities allege the six former officers, Thomas Liciardello, Brian Reynolds, Michael Spicer, Perry Betts, Linwood Norman and John Speiser were part of a violent racketeering conspiracy.
It happened around 3 a.m. Sunday inside a home along the 700 block of West Erie Avenue.
A Philadelphia police officer is in hot water after showing up at the station in a patrol car while drunk early Saturday morning.
Police say 13-year old Kyle Kelly was last seen at the Wayne Academy School on Wayne Avenue.
It happened just before midnight on Friday in the 4300 block of Elizabeth Street.
A teenager is in critical condition after he was shot several times outside a mini-mart in Philadelphia Thursday.
Nutter has signed an executive order creating a fifteen-member oversight commission to ensure that the Justice Department's recent recommendations become reality.
Police are searching for a suspect who was caught on tape on several occasions stealing thousands of dollars in merchandise from a supermarket in Philadelphia.
Rich discusses the reaction to Texas Senator Ted Cruz running for President, New Jersey banning microbeads, and New York City limiting the amount of juice that day care centers can give to children. He also talked to NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback, Roger Staubach, Joel Mathis from Philadelphia Magazine, and Alexis Garcia from Reason.
The report looks at more than 350 officer involved shootings spanning from 2007 to 2013. In 80% of cases the suspects were African-American, and in 15% of cases, the suspect was unarmed. The DOJ is recommending 91 separate recommendations for change.
The DOJ report came in response to police commisioner Charles Ramsey's resquest for a federal investigation after a spike in police-involved shootings in 2013.
Police say five vehicles were broken into, all within about a block of each other in the area of Hartel Avenue and Frontenac Street in the city's Rhawnhurst neighborhood.
It happened around 11 p.m. Sunday in the 900 block of Bridge Street near Summerdale Avenue.
It happened just before 3 p.m. along the 600 block of North Preston Street in the city's Mantua section.
A car crashed into a restaurant on Sunday morning in Philadelphia's Overbrook neighborhood.
A 12-year-old boy is in stable condition after a shooting early Sunday morning in Port Richmond
The death of a teenage girl who was found in her bedroom by her father inside her Philadelphia home Friday morning has been ruled a homicide.
