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Philadelphians have long looked to the Police Department's Civil Affairs officers to defuse unruly confrontations like the street brawl Saturday night in Port Richmond. But that night, an off-duty Civil Affairs cop shot and...
By Howard D. Popper Early on the morning of Nov. 26, 2006, Sean Bell left a Queens nightclub where he had been celebrating his marriage, scheduled for later that day. While sitting in his car and unarmed, Bell was killed and...
While the economy hasn’t yet recovered from the recession, according to Vice President Joseph Biden, things are looking up. Biden spoke at the Committee of Seventy’s annual breakfast yesterday at the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue....
Over 25,000 letters calling on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a civil rights investigation of the 28-year conspiracy to execute death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal were delivered to the doors of the...
Nyema Thrones is ready for change, waiting to be reinstated to a school from which she was kicked out for fighting. Jamire Warner was 16 when he was expelled from Kensington Culinary and transferred to a disciplinary school...
by KYW's Kim Glovas Philadelphia's newly elected district attorney took a tour of one of the city's prison facilities on Monday. Seth Williams (right) and some other officials toured the House of Corrections, on State Road in...
Election night was a night of celebration for Seth Williams; the Philadelphia District Attorney-Elect becomes the first African American DA in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And he thinks that's a good thing.
Seth Williams was elected Philadelphia's first black district attorney Nov. 3, and although he has come a long way since his days as president of Penn State's Undergraduate Student Government, he said he couldn't have done it...
Exclusive clubs are fun. Members get their own inside jokes, their own handshakes and most importantly, the fun of excluding people and getting that warm, elitist feeling that comes from looking down on others. That’s why I am...
Mumia Abu-Jamal The life of African American leader and death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is in new danger. A pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a case in Ohio could set the stage for the reinstatement of Mumia’s death...
