Wendy Ruderman

It’s been a tough year for ER doctors and nurses in the Philadelphia region. They’ve come a long way since those first terrible months.

A car crashed into a Northeast Philadelphia home Saturday night and ran over a woman inside, police said. The driver was arrested.

Another winter storm, predicted to arrive early Sunday, is likely to deliver 4 to 6 inches of snow.

Despite reforms at Devereux, the nonprofit has failed to protect nonverbal children from harm.

The plaintiffs, who ranged in age from 8 to 17 at the time, allege they were abused at Devereux facilities in Chester County and in other states.

The Inquirer recently interviewed seven child-welfare experts about ways to help detect, deter, and stop abuse at licensed childcare facilities and hold them accountable. Here are some proposals.

"You can't erase our history," artist Michelle Angela Ortiz projected onto the whitewashed site of her former mural.

Though overjoyed by the prestigious academic achievement, Mackenzie Fierceton said: “I would trade all of this to have been adopted and have a family."

The boy was answering a knock at the front door of the Frankford home where he lived with his grandmother and 10-year-old sister. A bullet then tore through the door into his head, police said.

Common Pleas Court Judge James Murray Lynn, 73, presides over one of the city's busiest courtrooms.