Jesse Bunch

Legislators set aside another full year of funding for the office — $1.2 million — but haven't agreed on whether they will extend it further.

The shooting occurred in a lot on the 2400 block of Kensington Avenue, authorities said.

Rosalind "Roz" Pichardo, founder of Operation Save Our City, was arrested for attacking a SEPTA passenger with a box cutter during an argument last week, authorities said.

Zakah Johnson, of East Mount Airy, will be tried as an adult for the killing of MD Mahfuzul Haque, according to police.

Md Mahfuzul Haque, a physician and Bangladesh native, moved to Philadelphia to support his wife's medical career. He was killed during a robbery this month, police say.

Owner Jake Adams and his wife, Sarah, were honored Saturday with a street sign near the iconic jazz venue and restaurant, which sold this year.

Krasner said the judge's decision to grant Rafael Jones a new trial in the 2012 shooting death of Moses Walker Jr. was "legally incorrect."

Danielle Baxter, 40, lied to investigators about the nature of 38-year-old Jordan Baxter's killing, prosecutors said.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court rejected defense lawyers' arguments that new DNA evidence warranted new trials for the men and said the guilty verdicts reached by jurors in three trials should stand.

Sterling Jones, 22, died after his ATV struck an Uber driver in May. Lawyers for Jones' father say police should not have been pursuing him in the first place.