A section of the highway crashed to the earth after a truck — possibly carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline — caught fire beneath an overpass.

A community of refugee and immigrant vendors who have called the Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Park in South Philly their home since the 1980’s. For 35+ years they have cultivated an open community space all their own, providing a cultural hub for social gatherings, sharing of ethnic cuisines and

Here's what you need to know about the wildfire smoke and air quality situation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

A man in Pennsylvania recently ate 40 rotisserie chickens in 40 days. He also apparently “never really liked chicken to start with.” Fox 29 reports how Philadelphia found a hero in Alexander Tominsky—now known as “The Chicken Man”—after the Phillies’ devastating World Series loss over the weekend, for it was on Sunday that he ate his 40th rotisserie chicken in 40 days.

A Philadelphia mother has given birth to what is believed to be the world’s first Tesla baby: an infant delivered in the front seat of an electric smart car while it was driving on autopilot. The remarkable delivery, reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, took place in September while Yiran Sherry, 33, and her husband Keating Sherry, 34, were taking their three-year-old son Rafa to pre-school.

Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a recent morning from a sprawling and now-defunct oil refinery once operated by Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES).

As Philadelphia shot up in flames Saturday, and cops forcefully cracked down on residents protesting police brutality and the killing of George Floyd, Camden decided to take a different path. There, the city’s officers, including Police Chief Joe Wysocki, locked arms with activists, clergy, and other protesters, and joined in the call for justice for Floyd, the Minnesota black man who was killed after Derek Chauvin, a city police officer, kneeled on his neck while Floyd gasped for air and said, “I can’t breathe.”

The Philadelphia Flyers’ beloved, mercurial mascot has been cleared of allegations that he physically assaulted a 13-year-old boy, according to police...

The residents of Philadelphia elected Larry Krasner as their new DA in 2018. Krasner promised reforms to the criminal justice system. And he delivered. He secured 33 resignations from prosecutors and staff who didn't feel they could back his...

Sugary drink sales dropped 38% in Philadelphia after the city started taxing soda and other sweet beverages in 2017, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Philadelphia levied a tax of 1.5 cents per ounce on sweetened drinks beginning Jan. 1, 2017, following Berkeley, California, as the second city in the country to implement the levy.

A Catholic priest in Philadelphia has been charged with raping a teen girl, corrupting her morals and recording her in a sex act, court records and the priest’s lawyer confirm. The Rev. Armand Garcia, 49, turned himself in for booking early Monday and posted his $250,000 bail hours later, his lawyer William J. Brennan told the Daily News.

R. Kelly is facing setback after setback as a result of Lifetime’s incriminating docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. The disturbing series of events highlighted in the six-hour series have led many people to finally mute the Grammy-Award-winning singer once and for all. Now, the city of Philadelphia has joined the fight against R. Kelly.

Mike McDonnell was a 10-year-old altar boy when he says a priest first molested him. Now 49, he is one of more than 1,000 victims of an estimated 300 "predator priests" in Pennsylvania, figures revealed by a state grand jury earlier this month. Following the grand jury report, McDonnell has revealed a motive for his 2011 conviction for stealing $100,000 from the Catholic church: Revenge.

It was the first Sunday in May. Just before 7:30 in the morning, Verne Kreuzburg left one of the many houses in Philadelphia where he used to get high on crystal meth. The drug had taken over his life, leaving him homeless and forever focused on his next high. To him, this was just another morning of some unknown day in an unknown year.

Many rare and valuable insects have been reported missing from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion. "We found that the majority 80 to 90 percent of the creatures that we had in the museum were taken," says Insectarium CEO John Cambridge. "Any types of exotic tarantula, scorpions, millipedes. We specialize in the arthropods of the world and we use those to tell the story of biodiversity, etc." Both Cambridge and Philadelphia police believe it was an inside job. Cambridge has three former employees of the Northeast Philadelphia facility that he suspects played a role in the robbery.

The act of kindness seemed destined to pull Johnny Bobbitt from the depths of homelessness and drug abuse he struggled with on the day Kate McClure’s car sputtered to a stop in front of him. She was a motorist on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia who found herself stuck on an off-ramp, scared and out of gas.

Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had a new life ahead of him. Last October, the homeless man used his last $20 to buy gas for a woman, Kate McClure, who was stranded on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. McClure, in return, created a GoFundMe campaign with her boyfriend Mark D'Amico to raise money for Bobbitt to thank him. McClure and Bobbitt's story quickly transformed into a viral "feel-good" story, and the campaign, as of Friday night, raised a total of $402,706 within nine months.

A 14-year-old black teen was arrested Thursday for allegedly selling water bottles outside the Philadelphia Zoo. A video of the arrest that shows an officer wrangling the teen to the ground and handcuffing him went viral on social media. The incident began when a zoo security officer flagged down Philadelphia police to report a group of boys selling water bottles outside the zoo. When the officers approached the 14-year-old teen he walked away from them, which resulted in his arrest, according to Philadelphia TV station WTXF.

Artist Meg Saligman created the "Common Threads" mural.