The Latest Breaking News from Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — He was estranged from family, tenuously employed, and posting online about how to identify “evil spirits.” He started wearing body armor and guns around the house. God, he believed, was telling him to purge his community of violence with violence.

Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner named the 40-year-old local man as the shooter who brought chaos and fear to the neighbourhood during the Fourth of July

PHILADELPHIA — Mo Bamba is coming home.

A father who was preparing to walk his eldest daughter down the aisle

PHILADELPHIA — The shooter accused of killing five people during a harrowing rampage in Southwest Philadelphia Monday night told police the shooting spree was an attempt to help authorities address the city’s gun violence crisis, and that a deity would be sending more people to help, according to sources familiar…

PHILADELPHIA — The actual fireworks arrived in Philly throughout July 4th weekend. But not the metaphorical ones that would set the NBA transaction cycle ablaze — at least when it comes to James Harden.

Five people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed in a mass shooting on Monday

Josephine Wamah says she is waiting for her twin brother Joseph Jr to wake up and tell her Monday night’s mass shooting was an elaborate prank

Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was apprehended by police shortly after the shooting. Two boys, aged 13 and two, were also shot and injured.