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PHILADELPHIA — Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said Tuesday that an officer who had been benched over allegations he used racial slurs during a traffic stop earlier this month will be allowed to return to duty after internal investigators concluded that he did not use such language during the chaotic episode.

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia's 2023 homicide total has surpassed 100 with another weekend of gun violence that included a quadruple shooting that left two people dead. In a nonfatal case, a 12-year-old was shot by his 10-year-old brother.

PHILADELPHIA — The city has agreed to pay a combined $9.25 million to hundreds of people teargassed, struck with rubber bullets, and detained by police during the 2020 racial justice protests after the police murder of George Floyd.

Philadelphia city officials have announced a $9.25 million settlement with hundreds of people in lawsuits challenging the police response to protests in 2020 that followed the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Shots rang out in Strawberry Mansion neighbourhood around 6pm near James G Blaine school

PHILADELPHIA — A 32-year-old police officer was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after being shot twice Wednesday afternoon during a traffic stop in West Philadelphia, police said.

PHILADELPHIA — When Taneesha Brodie's eldest son turned 8, she moved her family out of North Philadelphia to Upper Darby, seeking a safer community away from the city's gun violence.

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia has recorded its 500th homicide this year, surpassing a bleak milestone for the second year in a row as the city’s gun violence epidemic continues at an unrelenting pace, leaving devastating loss and trauma in its wake.

PHILADELPHIA — For years, Philadelphia police officials had been alarmed by an internal list that tracked the number of officers who were out of work but still getting paid.

Authorities hope it will bring them a step closer to the boy’s killer

Cops have finally confirmed the identity of 'America's Unknown Child' to be Joseph Augustus Zarelli, who was found naked and beaten in a box in Philadelphia in 1957.