As we close out 2024, there are some encouraging numbers from the Philadelphia Police Department as crime numbers are down for the first time since before the pandemic. Homicides as of Dec. 30 ...

suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philadelphia is expecting to end 2024 with the lowest number of homicides in a decade, but officials say that ...

“If we look at the publicly available data, which has been given us by the Philadelphia Police Department, we will see that at the height of the pandemic, the number of homicides in Philadelphia, ...

Bilal Qayyum, president of the Father’s Day Rally Committee, believes the collaboration and financial investment in community ...

Philadelphia Police arrested Bilal Simmons, a suspect in the fatal shootings of Jocelynn Marshall and Terrell Sanders in their home. Motives are unclear.

Philadelphia’s homicide count for last year was the lowest in almost a decade. The city’s spike in 2021 has been attributed to the pandemic, which began in early ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police are investigating two homicides and several other shooting incidents in the city on Christmas Eve. The first happened around 10 p.m. in the Mantua ...

PHILADELPHIA - A weekend shooting left a man dead on a street in North Philadelphia early Sunday morning. The 57-year-old ...