Ryan W. Briggs

A Philadelphia judge — and former Democratic state representative — was barred from the bench on Monday for refusing to stop posting political statements on Facebook.

Pennsylvania's Court of Judicial Discipline found in May that Common Pleas Court Judge Mark B.

A missing 61-year-old woman from Northeast Philadelphia was found dead this week — her body concealed behind a fake wall inside her own home, according to police.

For residents of the 1700 block of Folsom Street, the tricolor bricks and broken cinder blocks covering the sidewalk feel like hundreds of dodged bullets: Each one of them, from 50 feet above, could have been fatal.

Transportation Workers Union Local 234 represents SEPTA bus, trolley, and subway operators.

Eastwick Pavilion, a 300-person event space, caught fire under still-unclear circumstances and was heavily damaged, said the John Bartram Association.

The man ignored police commands to drop the firearm and then began to raise it upward, prompting officers to shoot him, according to a statement by District Attorney Kevin Steele.

McCormick is a former CEO of the Connecticut-based hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, and donors from the finance industry have shelled out millions to elect him to a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania women who are registered as Democrats are responsible for the largest single share of early votes.

On a windblown stretch of the Delaware riverfront in late September, an array of local leaders lined up to praise a new use for Pier 40.