A gunman snuck up behind a teenager and killed him as he sat at a Southwest Philadelphia playground, investigators said.

One person was shot and killed at a park in Southwest Philadelphia Monday night, police said. Police are on the scene at 57th ...

Taesean Grant was charged with wounding a 16-year-old in a shooting last week in West, District Attorney Larry Krasner announced.

Three people were killed in Philadelphia in less than 24 hours over the weekend, a striking spate of violence in a year that ...

Police data shows this year, Philadelphia has seen a 17% drop, so far, in violent crime over last year -- a year in which, ...

In the last year, several cases of measles have been identified in the Philadelphia region; last winter, a measles outbreak ...

A man was shot and killed in his West Philadelphia backyard after he heard shouting and stepped outside to check out the ...

A husband and wife were at home in West Philadelphia late Sunday night when tragedy struck right outside their door.

Police are investigating after a man was gunned down on his own property in West Philadelphia. It happened just before 11:30 ...