In 2024, the city experienced a remarkable 35% reduction in homicides. This year seemed likely to continue that trend. Then ...

Philadelphia is standing against gun violence on Tuesday with two events, one week after the fatal Lemon Hill mass shooting.

Police said 31-year-old Derwin Darnell Joseph Matthews Jr. was shot and killed in Philadelphia early Monday morning in the ...

A man was pulled from the Schuylkill River early Wednesday morning, police said. According to the Philadelphia Police Department, around 5:31 a.m. on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, officers and fire crews ...

As we close out 2024, there are some encouraging numbers from the Philadelphia Police Department as crime numbers are down for the first time since before the pandemic. Homicides as of Dec. 30 ...

If you’re addicted to local television news or Fox News or if you live your life based on 15-second blips on TikTok or whatever the awful Citizen crime app has to say, you are probably still ...

A suspect has been taken into custody after a shooting at a West Philadelphia grocery store Wednesday killed one teenager and ...

Police statistics show 203 Black people died from gunshots in Philadelphia in 2024 — almost two-thirds the number who died in 2023 — as the city experienced an almost 10-year low in fatal ...

Families and friends are too often overlooked in stories when loved ones are met with violence. These are some of those cases and all that police and the heartbroken families are seeking is for ...