January 8, 2022 Philadelphia police building evacuated after chemical sprayed on door: report A police precinct in Philadelphia was evacuated Friday night after an unidentified suspect entered the building and sprayed the door of the Southwest Detectives Division with a chemical agent, according to a report.
January 7, 2022 Philadelphia children's hospital supports in-person education The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) supports "in-person education" and has revised its guidelines for school closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 7, 2022 Philly fire: 5-year-old may have caused deadly blaze, warrant says A child playing with a lighter may have been the cause of a Philadelphia Housing Authority rowhome fire that killed 12 people this Wednesday, according to a search warrant application.
January 6, 2022 Philadelphia fire: Council president says lawsuit forced city to scale back occupancy limits long before blaze Philadelphia’s deadly house fire in a public housing building took heavy tolls on the two large families living there in breach of their occupancy authorizations, according to housing officials in the City of Brotherly Love.
January 6, 2022 Philadelphia fire: Family releases photos, mourns eight children and four adults who were killed A three-story duplex in Philadelphia caught fire on Wednesday morning, leaving eight children and four adults dead in the city's deadliest fire in more than a century.
January 5, 2022 Philadelphia fire: Four smoke detectors were not working in house fire that left 12 dead Four smoke detectors were not working inside a Philadelphia row house that caught fire on Wednesday morning, leaving a dozen people dead, Philadelphia Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said.
January 5, 2022 Philadelphia fire kills 12, including 8 children, officials say At least 12 people are dead – including eight children – after a fire erupted in a three-story Philadelphia duplex early Wednesday, officials say.
January 4, 2022 Philadelphia Lyft driver with license to carry shoots armed suspects during carjacking, police say A Lyft driver with a license to carry a firearm shot two suspects who carjacked him Monday afternoon in Philadelphia as last year's record-breaking violence in the city continues to spill over into the new year.
January 1, 2022 Philadelphia’s record violence spills into new year after at least 3 killed, 7 wounded in shootings Just hours into the new year, at least three people were killed and seven others wounded in shootings across Philadelphia early Saturday, according to local reports.
December 23, 2021 Federal charges filed against suspect in carjacking of Democratic congresswoman The Department of Justice announced federal charges Thursday against a man accused of carjacking Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) on Wednesday.
