Philadelphia Police DepartmentInside the scramble to save Philadelphia’s only free sexual assault exam centerFor more than a year, the fate of the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center lurched from one near-miss to the next, kept alive by emergency city money and a reluctant university.Jillian Kramer and Anna Orso A man was found engulfed in flames on Kensington AvenueHenry Savage Excavation begins at Olney house at center of missing women caseNick Vadala and Michelle Myers One of DA Larry Krasner’s top advisers once sent $100 to a man in prison for murder who’s now appealing his conviction. It’s under investigation.Ellie Rushing A missing teen was killed by a CSX freight train in Northeast PhiladelphiaHenry Savage AdvertisementMemorial honoring woman killed by drunk driver moved hours after its installation on Spruce StreetThe city said it wasn’t done by its crews, and the memorial barrier was later recovered in an alleyway nearby.Henry Savage Police officers in North Philadelphia’s 22nd District failed to record nearly three-quarters of encounters, audit findsAn audit by the city's Citizens Police Oversight Commission of four police districts found 22nd District officers activated their cameras the least. Jillian Kramer Police searched Olney home last summer, but drugs — not missing women — were the focusThe police report made no mention of missing women, despite the fact that relatives and friends had told police years earlier that at least two women who stayed there had vanished.Max Marin, Ryan W. Briggs, Ellie Rushing, and Barbara Laker Pa. Attorney General Dave Sunday talks Supreme Court’s Krasner ruling, abortion appeal The high court recently gave Sunday's office unprecedented authority over the DA's post-conviction review process. He discussed that ruling and more in an interview with The Inquirer. Jesse Bunch Three Philadelphia police officers were wounded in a shooting late Saturday. The gunman was a retired firefighter.Law enforcement sources identified the gunman as Eric Franks, 57, a retired firefighter, who was killed by officers in response.Ellie Rushing, Brett Sholtis, Maggie Prosser, and Barbara Laker Banning ‘convenience’ fees, buying the police headquarters, and approving the city budget | City Council roundupCouncil also approved the purchase of the police headquarters building on North Broad Street and expanded death benefits to the families of first responders who die by suicide. Sean Collins Walsh and Anna Orso A St. Joe’s Prep grad is recovering from a traumatic brain injury after violent high school ‘tiki party’ in Wissahickon parkPhiladelphia police are investigating the May 10 incident.Jesse Bunch Two Philadelphia police officers stopped hundreds of Black men on the street. Lawyers say the stops were illegal and racially biased.A review by lawyers with the Defender Association of Philadelphia has led prosecutors to drop cases against 24 men the two officers arrested.Jillian Kramer The Justice Department is investigating whether Philly police are improperly revoking gun permitsIn a letter to Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, a DOJ official said the investigation will evaluate whether police were violating the Constitution by their method of revoking gun permits.Chris Palmer and Jesse Bunch 23-year-old man dies in Kensington double shooting, police sayRymir Ibn-Allah Shaw died after being struck by gunfire on the 3500 block of F Street, according to police. Jesse Bunch Former Philly police officer convicted of perjury for lying about traffic stop An attorney for Daniel Levitt, 52, said he will appeal the verdict. Jillian Kramer and Ellie Rushing A woman was killed in a hit-and-run in South PhiladelphiaA woman was killed by a driver, who ignored a red light, on Monday night, at Broad Street and Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia. Henry Savage One man died and two others are in critical condition after a shooting in North PhiladelphiaThree men were shot while sitting on the front steps of a Philadelphia Housing Authority property. Police don't have a description of the shooter or shooters.Henry Savage DA’s office warns its gang violence investigation unit could shutter if City Council doesn’t provide recurring fundsWith additional city funds, law enforcement is at risk of losing essential digital investigative tools as soon as this year, the district attorney's office says.Ellie Rushing Man killed, another injured in Southwest Philadelphia road rage shooting, authorities sayMiguel Quinones-Barreto, 20, was struck by gunfire and died in the hospital. A suspect remains at large. Jesse Bunch See more storiesAdvertisement
Inside the scramble to save Philadelphia’s only free sexual assault exam centerFor more than a year, the fate of the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center lurched from one near-miss to the next, kept alive by emergency city money and a reluctant university.Jillian Kramer and Anna Orso
Inside the scramble to save Philadelphia’s only free sexual assault exam centerFor more than a year, the fate of the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center lurched from one near-miss to the next, kept alive by emergency city money and a reluctant university.Jillian Kramer and Anna Orso
One of DA Larry Krasner’s top advisers once sent $100 to a man in prison for murder who’s now appealing his conviction. It’s under investigation.Ellie Rushing
One of DA Larry Krasner’s top advisers once sent $100 to a man in prison for murder who’s now appealing his conviction. It’s under investigation.Ellie Rushing
Memorial honoring woman killed by drunk driver moved hours after its installation on Spruce StreetThe city said it wasn’t done by its crews, and the memorial barrier was later recovered in an alleyway nearby.Henry Savage
Memorial honoring woman killed by drunk driver moved hours after its installation on Spruce StreetThe city said it wasn’t done by its crews, and the memorial barrier was later recovered in an alleyway nearby.Henry Savage
Police officers in North Philadelphia’s 22nd District failed to record nearly three-quarters of encounters, audit findsAn audit by the city's Citizens Police Oversight Commission of four police districts found 22nd District officers activated their cameras the least. Jillian Kramer
Police officers in North Philadelphia’s 22nd District failed to record nearly three-quarters of encounters, audit findsAn audit by the city's Citizens Police Oversight Commission of four police districts found 22nd District officers activated their cameras the least. Jillian Kramer
Police searched Olney home last summer, but drugs — not missing women — were the focusThe police report made no mention of missing women, despite the fact that relatives and friends had told police years earlier that at least two women who stayed there had vanished.Max Marin, Ryan W. Briggs, Ellie Rushing, and Barbara Laker
Police searched Olney home last summer, but drugs — not missing women — were the focusThe police report made no mention of missing women, despite the fact that relatives and friends had told police years earlier that at least two women who stayed there had vanished.Max Marin, Ryan W. Briggs, Ellie Rushing, and Barbara Laker
Pa. Attorney General Dave Sunday talks Supreme Court’s Krasner ruling, abortion appeal The high court recently gave Sunday's office unprecedented authority over the DA's post-conviction review process. He discussed that ruling and more in an interview with The Inquirer. Jesse Bunch
Pa. Attorney General Dave Sunday talks Supreme Court’s Krasner ruling, abortion appeal The high court recently gave Sunday's office unprecedented authority over the DA's post-conviction review process. He discussed that ruling and more in an interview with The Inquirer. Jesse Bunch
Three Philadelphia police officers were wounded in a shooting late Saturday. The gunman was a retired firefighter.Law enforcement sources identified the gunman as Eric Franks, 57, a retired firefighter, who was killed by officers in response.Ellie Rushing, Brett Sholtis, Maggie Prosser, and Barbara Laker
Three Philadelphia police officers were wounded in a shooting late Saturday. The gunman was a retired firefighter.Law enforcement sources identified the gunman as Eric Franks, 57, a retired firefighter, who was killed by officers in response.Ellie Rushing, Brett Sholtis, Maggie Prosser, and Barbara Laker
Banning ‘convenience’ fees, buying the police headquarters, and approving the city budget | City Council roundupCouncil also approved the purchase of the police headquarters building on North Broad Street and expanded death benefits to the families of first responders who die by suicide. Sean Collins Walsh and Anna Orso
Banning ‘convenience’ fees, buying the police headquarters, and approving the city budget | City Council roundupCouncil also approved the purchase of the police headquarters building on North Broad Street and expanded death benefits to the families of first responders who die by suicide. Sean Collins Walsh and Anna Orso
A St. Joe’s Prep grad is recovering from a traumatic brain injury after violent high school ‘tiki party’ in Wissahickon parkPhiladelphia police are investigating the May 10 incident.Jesse Bunch
A St. Joe’s Prep grad is recovering from a traumatic brain injury after violent high school ‘tiki party’ in Wissahickon parkPhiladelphia police are investigating the May 10 incident.Jesse Bunch
Two Philadelphia police officers stopped hundreds of Black men on the street. Lawyers say the stops were illegal and racially biased.A review by lawyers with the Defender Association of Philadelphia has led prosecutors to drop cases against 24 men the two officers arrested.Jillian Kramer
Two Philadelphia police officers stopped hundreds of Black men on the street. Lawyers say the stops were illegal and racially biased.A review by lawyers with the Defender Association of Philadelphia has led prosecutors to drop cases against 24 men the two officers arrested.Jillian Kramer
The Justice Department is investigating whether Philly police are improperly revoking gun permitsIn a letter to Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, a DOJ official said the investigation will evaluate whether police were violating the Constitution by their method of revoking gun permits.Chris Palmer and Jesse Bunch
The Justice Department is investigating whether Philly police are improperly revoking gun permitsIn a letter to Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, a DOJ official said the investigation will evaluate whether police were violating the Constitution by their method of revoking gun permits.Chris Palmer and Jesse Bunch
23-year-old man dies in Kensington double shooting, police sayRymir Ibn-Allah Shaw died after being struck by gunfire on the 3500 block of F Street, according to police. Jesse Bunch
23-year-old man dies in Kensington double shooting, police sayRymir Ibn-Allah Shaw died after being struck by gunfire on the 3500 block of F Street, according to police. Jesse Bunch
Former Philly police officer convicted of perjury for lying about traffic stop An attorney for Daniel Levitt, 52, said he will appeal the verdict. Jillian Kramer and Ellie Rushing
Former Philly police officer convicted of perjury for lying about traffic stop An attorney for Daniel Levitt, 52, said he will appeal the verdict. Jillian Kramer and Ellie Rushing
A woman was killed in a hit-and-run in South PhiladelphiaA woman was killed by a driver, who ignored a red light, on Monday night, at Broad Street and Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia. Henry Savage
A woman was killed in a hit-and-run in South PhiladelphiaA woman was killed by a driver, who ignored a red light, on Monday night, at Broad Street and Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia. Henry Savage
One man died and two others are in critical condition after a shooting in North PhiladelphiaThree men were shot while sitting on the front steps of a Philadelphia Housing Authority property. Police don't have a description of the shooter or shooters.Henry Savage
One man died and two others are in critical condition after a shooting in North PhiladelphiaThree men were shot while sitting on the front steps of a Philadelphia Housing Authority property. Police don't have a description of the shooter or shooters.Henry Savage
DA’s office warns its gang violence investigation unit could shutter if City Council doesn’t provide recurring fundsWith additional city funds, law enforcement is at risk of losing essential digital investigative tools as soon as this year, the district attorney's office says.Ellie Rushing
DA’s office warns its gang violence investigation unit could shutter if City Council doesn’t provide recurring fundsWith additional city funds, law enforcement is at risk of losing essential digital investigative tools as soon as this year, the district attorney's office says.Ellie Rushing
Man killed, another injured in Southwest Philadelphia road rage shooting, authorities sayMiguel Quinones-Barreto, 20, was struck by gunfire and died in the hospital. A suspect remains at large. Jesse Bunch
Man killed, another injured in Southwest Philadelphia road rage shooting, authorities sayMiguel Quinones-Barreto, 20, was struck by gunfire and died in the hospital. A suspect remains at large. Jesse Bunch
