Philadelphia Police Department

In January, the Philadelphia police department’s most recent training academy class included no Black cadets. Potential recruits of color told NBC10 of the many obstacles they face despite eagerness to serve their city.

A Cape Cod man is charged with threatening the police commissioner in Philadelphia.

A Massachusetts man sent two emails threatening Philadelphia’s police commissioner with racist language and was arrested on charges of sending threats across state lines, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. FBI agents tracked down Peter Fratus, 39, at his home in West Dennis, on Cape Cod, after they determined he sent the emails to Commissioner Danielle Outlaw from an anonymous account last…

Sephora is closing its U.S. stores for an hour Wednesday morning to host “inclusion workshops” for its 16,000 employees, just over a month after R&B star SZA said she had security called on her while shopping at a store in California. The beauty retailer said the training had been in development months before SZA’s experience, which undermined the company’s efforts...

More than a dozen people were charged with illegally prescribing opioids to patients in the Philadelphia region who didn’t need the drugs in exchange for cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner reflects on his first 100 days in office and addresses critics who don’t believe he can keep the city safe.

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Chrissy Metz and Milo Ventimiglia break down Thursday’s episode, which touches on everything from the emotional fallout of Jack and Rebecca losing one of the triplets to Kate deciding it’s time to take a break from her relationship with Toby.

As many as 100 young people were involved in disturbances with some carrying out attacks on students, police and police animals, police said.

The same day police announced a 13-year-old girl was behind some of the social media posts threatening violent attacks on Philadelphia schools, another 13-year-old girl as well as a 14-year-old boy were arrested for allegedly making similar threats against students in Washington Township, New Jersey.

An investigation into a flood of social media posts threatening violent attacks on Philadelphia schools by clowns led police to a 13-year-old girl who says she made some of the posts as a prank, authorities said Monday.

A flood of social-media posts that surfaced in recent days threatening attacks on schools by clowns — some of which named specific Philadelphia schools — prompted Philadelphia police and the city school district to investigate.

Nearly 48 hours after a lone gunman went on a shooting spree through a Philadelphia neighborhood that left a woman dead, two police officers wounded and three other people injured, investigators are digging into the shooter’s past to answer one major question among many: Why? Police say Nicholas Glenn took a handgun with obliterated serial number and a cache of...