Of the 20 schools Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. has recommended closing, six are middle schools. But others will stay open, or even grow.

Teams in need of a running back this offseason have one less free agent option now that the Dallas Cowboys are bringing back Javonte Williams.

As the City of Brotherly Love gears up for a knockout year of celebrations, the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is stepping ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police are searching for a suspect who shot a man following an altercation inside a bar in the Kensington section of Philadelphia early Monday morning. It happened just before 2 ...

Wickedly cold winds and slushy streets and sidewalks didn’t deter women from coming to downtown New Kensington on Saturday afternoon for a little gal time. Businesses on or near Fifth Avenue ...

It’s closing time at Sherry’s Restaurant. The last few diners are still finishing up their home fries and eggs as Yolanda Del Valle sinks into a brown vinyl booth, winding down a shift that started ...

A firefighter suffered minor injuries, officials say, during the response to an early morning rowhome fire in Philadelphia's Kensington community that grew to involve five homes before it was ...

Frances Ola Walker, West Philadelphia Empowerment Zone director, college instructor, former Mill Creek Coalition president, and a civil rights advocate, died Tuesday, Dec. 30, at the Hospital of the ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A brawl over a snow-cleared parking spot left one man in critical condition on Thursday in Philadelphia. In surveillance video obtained by our sister station, 6ABC Action News, you can ...

Cantina la Martina will host its first Philadelphia event since closing its Kensington restaurant in November, bringing its annual La Tamalada festival to The Lighthouse on Sunday, Feb. 1. The Mexican ...

Before 6 7, Skrilla had Kensington. Call it the largest open-air black market on the East Coast; call it the epicenter of Philadelphia’s drug crisis. Skrilla just calls it the block. More than a ...

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