Philadelphia

The future of the Mummers Parade is in jeopardy if the leadership doesn't make immediate changes to better control the parade, Mayor Kenney wrote in a letter Monday.

A local lawmaker is working to combat gun violence in Philadelphia by focusing on stronger gun laws.

Parents are concerned and fed up after McClure Elementary School was closed twice over asbestos.

Nelson Perez, who spent most of his early pastoral career in the Philadelphia area, was introduced Thursday in a news conference at the archdiocese's Philadelphia headquarters.

Police are searching for suspects after an ATM theft in Mayfair.

Philadelphia police are searching for a missing 15-year-old girl who has not been seen since Tuesday.

A father claims that Gritty lunched at his son and punched him in the lower right side of his back during a special meet and greet for Flyers season ticket holders.

Former Pennsylvania state rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell faces three months jail time after entering a guilty plea Thursday.

Police say they are investigating an accusation that the Philadelphia Flyers mascot 'Gritty' physically assaulted a teenage boy.

Police say a man was shot while driving on Kelly Drive.

Police are investigating a triple shooting in a Target parking lot in Wynnefield Heights.

Police are investigating after a 43-year-old man's body was found wrapped in a blanket inside the trunk of a burning Jeep in South Philadelphia.

Police say Joslyn Morgan, 43, was shot and stabbed before he was wrapped in a blanket and later found inside a burning Jeep.

Delbert Africa, a member of the radical Philadelphia group MOVE, has been released from prison.