Brian X. McCrone

A giant Ponzi scheme once dubbed “the largest green scam in America” was run by two Temple University graduates and a slick-talking Colorado salesman. Now, the first of the three people is being sentenced.

The White House on Monday designated a portion of the Atlantic Ocean off of New Jersey and New York as a “wind energy area,” assuring hundreds of wind turbines will be coming this decade. Here’s what it really means.

American offshore wind farms, of which there are 17 in the works for the Atlantic Ocean, are no longer far off on the horizon. The overall magnitude of this emerging renewable energy industry is starting to take shape.

Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor who comes in Paul Bunyan proportions made his mark as mayor of a Rust Belt city outside Pittsburgh. More recently, he’s become one of the most progressive politicians in the state.

A 37-year-old man already wanted in a separate assault case in New Jersey has been charged by federal authorities for allegedly causing a U.S. Capitol police officer to be knocked unconscious Jan. 6.

On Tuesday, amid questions of the vetting process that the Philadelphia Public Health Department uses to evaluate vaccine partners, a city spokesman told NBC10 that there are no contracts with organizations administering the vaccine using doses provided by the city.

The company building New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm is providing a glimpse into the future — what beachgoers and residents will see when turbines are erected.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine gives hours by which the virus can last on surfaces. A Drexel University epidemiologist says spreading the infection has little to do with cereal boxes and dollar bills.

But as sites ramped up Monday, a bigger focus of testing is becoming clear: health care workers, first responders and those already hospitalized. That’s in part because testing potential cases among the general public may be losing steam as a containment strategy.

Two families with lifelong secrets unearthed because of home DNA test kits are now dealing with the truth. Here’s what their stories tell us about the shock that can come from new ancestry technology, and how to deal with it.

Cameras inside the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery caught on video the massive blasts early June 21 from just yards away.

A Northeast Philadelphia firearms dealer sold a shotgun Tuesday to the man suspected of killing four of his family members later that same day. The owner said the suspect seemed “perfectly A-okay” when he bought the gun.

Seven Philadelphia police officers named in a report that linked offensive and racist social media posts to cops in departments across the country have left the department in the last two weeks.

The large wind turbines twirled for nearly a decade above Lincoln Financial Field, where the Philadelphia Eagles play home games. Now, they’re gone, having disappeared in the last couple months.

The investigation of racist and insensitive Facebook posts allegedly made by active-duty and former cops across the country has led to 72 Philadelphia police officers being placed on administrative duty, Commissioner Richard Ross announced Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican representing western Pennsylvania, said he’s “a person of color” because he’s white in an exchange with a reporter while discussing President Trump’s tweet tirade against four congresswomen.

The investigation of racist and insensitive Facebook posts allegedly made by active-duty and former cops across the country has led to 72 Philadelphia police officers being placed on administrative duty, Commissioner Richard Ross announced Wednesday.

Dozens of Philadelphia police officers were placed on desk duty amid an investigation of racist and insensitive Facebook posts allegedly made by active-duty and former cops across the country, according to a high ranking law enforcement source.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed an appeal with the Pennsylvania Superior Court asking for a new Meek Mill trial with a new judge.