Last Saturday night, three people were killed and eleven others wounded when several suspects involved in an altercation fired at each other through a large crowd of patrons on the 300 block of South Street in Philadelphia, according to police. Law enforcement has identified the three victims killed, and said…

This week, Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, were both charged with falsely impersonating federal law enforcement officers, in a years-long scam where they befriended and scammed Secret Service agents, including one on the first lady’s security detail, into believing that they were fellow members of the Department of…

After going out to dinner last Saturday in Philadelphia’s center city, I noticed that every street leading to Penn Square was closed off by police. When I contacted a friend in the Philadelphia police, he informed me that the streets were closed “because of the ATVs.” More senior sources in…

After going out to dinner last Saturday in Philadelphia’s center city, I noticed that every street leading to Penn Square was closed off by police. When I contacted a friend in the Philadelphia police, he informed me that the streets were closed “because of the ATVs.” More senior sources in…

As the clock struck midnight to begin 2022, Philadelphia set a new record for homicides: 562. In both 2020 and 2021, Philadelphia recorded more murders that than cities like New York and Los Angeles, both of which have three times the population. …

In response to the Jan. 5 rowhouse fire in Philadelphia’s Fairmount section that killed twelve people, Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel spoke at a Jan. 25 press conference. …

Now that guilty verdicts have completed the saga of the John Dougherty and Bobby Henon corruption case, all eyes are on the more than two-year-old federal indictment of Philly Councilman Kenyatta Johnson. In 2019, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams charged Councilman Kenyatta Johnson and his wife, political consultant…

Philadelphia is the most violent major city in America. The city recorded 506 murders by the close of Thanksgiving weekend, placing it on track to have its deadliest year in recorded history. Going into the weekend when Philadelphia marked its 499th homicide, tying 2020’s total number, more than a dozen…

Eight preventable deaths at Houston’s Astroworld music festival are another brutal reminder of the various, interconnected organizations with a duty of care to keep people safe and secure at sports and entertainment venues. Tragedies like the one Friday night at the Astroworld music festival have been happening for decades, costing…