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PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police officers fatally shot a 12-year-old boy in the back Tuesday night in South Philadelphia after a bullet was fired into their vehicle, officials said Wednesday.

James Harden felt the love from Philadelphia fans in his first home game with the Sixers.

The officers were in plainclothes in an unmarked car

A new professional football league is ready to kick off in Alabama this spring. But it looks very similar to one that died a notorious death in the 1980s

PHILADELPHIA — Marea Claybourne-Napier was 5 years old and considering the world of fairy tales when she asked her mother a question: Where were the princesses who looked like her?

Conor Lamb has two big problems.

PHILADELPHIA — Doc Rivers was 140 days old at the time. His players were multiple decades away from being conceived.

PHILADELPHIA — As Russian forces were closing in on Kyiv last Thursday, Oksana Maslova, a Philadelphia Ballet dancer from Ukraine, was exchanging text messages with friends and family nearly 5,000 miles away. Her mother, who had gone to Kyiv to be with Maslova's sister, spent the previous two nights in…

History will not look back kindly at Black History Month 2022.

PHILADELPHIA — Planners behind the drive to erect a sculpture of Marian Anderson in her hometown are casting about for potential artists and, for the first time, have outlined a detailed timeline for completion of the project.

PHILADELPHIA — It's been nearly a year since Christopher Hinkle was beaten to death inside a Philadelphia jail cell, but his family says it knows little more about his last moments than it did when first told of his death.