Philadelphia Politics News

A $7.5 million advertising campaign will try to discourage drinking and driving during the holiday season. In Pennsylvania, the Operation Safe Holiday program is in effect this month, with state police and 600 municipal forces participating in an effort to...

At least 13 states have laws permitting medical marijuana use and, in a break with the Bush years, the Obama administration announced recently that federal agents would not crack down in those states that have approved it. So the news...

A 22-year-old man is hospitalized after being shot three time by a Philadelphia police officer, but police say he's expected to survive. It happened last night in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia. Police say they were pursuing a man in...

A second suspect has been charged with stealing a watch from a man who died while waiting for care at a Philadelphia emergency room. Police said they arrested 41-year-old Martin Smith on Thursday afternoon. Police said Smith is homeless and...

Pa. — Obese students at a historically black college near Philadelphia won't have to take a fitness class to graduate after all. Lincoln University faculty nixed the idea this week amid complaints the so-called "fat course" undermined a school principle...

An illegal immigrant accused of kidnapping and raping a Pennsylvania woman must use his real name at trial. Thirty-seven-year-old Khalid Altawarh has used the name Dave Shookby since moving to the U.S. from Jordan in 1996...He asked a Bucks County...

The Disease that infects us all... Racism, no other disease infects the world more. Not Swine flu, Ebola, Cancer nor HIV/AIDS have infected the world more than the ignorance of racism. Racism since the days of slavery and the 50's,...

A Belmont High School student struck and killed by a commuter rail train yesterday afternoon may have crawled through a hole in a fence near the school used as a shortcut by kids, officials said...He said there is a hole...