South Philadelphia

A young woman has been arrested and charged with third-degree murder in a crash that killed two Pennsylvania state police troopers and a man who they were trying to help on Interstate 95 in South Philadelphia early Monday morning.

Pennsylvania Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (D-5th District) was carjacked at gunpoint in South Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon, her spokesperson confirmed with NBC10.

Philadelphia police have identified and issued arrest warrants for two of the four men accused of beating a man to death outside Pat’s King of Steaks in South Philadelphia early Thursday.

By a unanimous vote, the School District of Philadelphia’s board voted to strip President Andrew Jackson’s name from a South Philadelphia elementary school and replace it with the name of a freed slave who dedicated her life to education.

A box was put around the Christopher Columbus statue in South Philadelphia’s Marconi Plaza and work trucks were parked nearby.

Constitution Health Plaza, expected to be the first location in the United States for a supervised injection site, said they have canceled plans to allow for the Safehouse facility.

An argument over roofing work led Luis Cruz to kill Joslyn Morgan and leave the remains in a burning Jeep in a South Philadelphia parking lot, District Attorney Larry Krasner says.