A high-profile bill to ban Philadelphia from incinerating its trash was put on hold Thursday after intense lobbying by residents, activists, and industry put its future in doubt. The bill’s…
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s legislature opened debate Thursday on a bill to loosen state control over the country’s vast oil sector in the first major overhaul since the late socialist…
Adalyn Hetzel had just celebrated her second birthday in the spring of 2024 when doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia diagnosed her with an aggressive soft tissue cancer. She endured…
A manhunt is underway in Indiana for the person who shot and wounded a judge and his wife inside their home over the weekend. The violence unfolded Sunday afternoon, at…
ROME — Three U.S. Catholic cardinals urged the Trump administration on Monday to use a moral compass in pursuing its foreign policy, saying U.S. military action in Venezuela, threats of…
A lifeline for Montgomery County’s low-income and homeless residents is running out of time. The Norristown Hospitality Center, a nonprofit day shelter offering free meals, showers, laundry, legal aid, and…
A New Jersey school resource officer has been charged with misconduct and child endangerment after an altercation with a juvenile in 2024, Gloucester County prosecutors said. Charles P. Rudolph, 51,…
The city of Camden last year reached its lowest homicide total since 1985, police said. In 2025, Camden recorded 12 homicides, the same number as in 1985. Homicides dropped down…
Last month, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a bill lawmakers passed called “Deb’s Law” that enables terminally ill patients to request a prescription from their doctor to end…
Philadelphia is on track to record the lowest number of fatal overdoses in nearly a decade in 2025, according to preliminary state data. State officials reported 747 overdose deaths in…
