An arrest has been made in the attempted abduction of a child in Philadelphia after a massive police manhunt.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has announced a $10,000 reward for the capture of a man who attempted to abduct a 10-year-old girl while she was walking home from a store with her 2-year-old brother on Tuesday.
Men in masks apparently attempted to break into the Pennsylvania home of Democratic Rep. Robert Brady on Friday, according to his congressional spokeswoman, Karen Warrington.
A 29-year-old man was arrested Thursday after screeners at the Philadelphia airport found flash powder and fireworks in his backpack, the Transportation Security Administration said.
A passenger jet was just seconds away from landing Thursday at Philadelphia International Airport when a Jeep broke through a chain-link fence and drove onto several runways, forcing a number of planes to circle the area, according to an air traffic controller familiar with the incident.
An airplane was seconds away from landing at Philadelphia International Airport when a Jeep drove across several runways.
A 32-year-old man was arrested and charged Friday in the beating of two New York Rangers fans outside a landmark restaurant after the Winter Classic hockey game on January 2.
Federal agents and Philadelphia police seized about $350,000 worth of counterfeit NHL jerseys and other fake merchandise from street vendors and international mailers at the Winter Classic between the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers.
Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia dismantled tents and arrested Occupy protesters who refused to leave city property early Wednesday.
Philadelphia police were told nearly eight years ago about a possible kidnapping involving the alleged ringleader of a group charged last week with imprisoning four mentally disabled adults, according to a lawyer for the family of one of the captives.
Court documents obtained by CNN on Friday reveal disturbing new details about the prior conviction of the alleged ringleader of a group charged this week with imprisoning four mentally disabled adults in a dank Philadelphia boiler room.
A fourth person was arrested in in the case of four mentally disabled people who were found locked in the boiler room of a Philadelphia apartment building over the weekend, police said Wednesday.
A gruesome discovery in Philadelphia of disabled adults locked in a basement. CNN's Susan Candiotti reports.
The investigation into how four mentally disabled people ended up locked in a filthy basement boiler room now reaches "way beyond the borders of Philadelphia," the city's police commissioner said Monday.
At first, a Philadelphia landlord said, he thought one of his tenants was attempting to conceal a dog after finding a dog dish in the basement of his apartment building.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal to get a new sentencing hearing for the killing of a Philadelphia police officer 30 years ago.
A Philadelphia police officer was charged with rape Wednesday after allegedly assaulting a woman while on duty, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell discusses a case involving a Philadelphia officer charged with raping a woman while on duty.
Philadelphia police picked up 50 juveniles for violating the city's beefed-up curfew which took effect Friday night, authorities said Saturday.
CNN's Sarah Hoye talks to Philadelphians to find out what's behind the city's violent teen mob attacks.
Philadelphia police arrested three juveniles and a 19-year-old on assault, reckless endangerment and robbery charges after a rampaging mob struck the Center City area, causing minor injuries to two people, according to police.
Police arrested a woman Wednesday at Philadelphia International Airport after authorities alleged she made terroristic threats and intimidated passengers and crew.
Three members of the Philadelphia police department and 12 others are being charged with conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger announced Wednesday.
A former Black Panther convicted nearly 30 years ago of gunning down a Philadelphia police officer was granted a new sentencing hearing Tuesday by a federal appeals court, sparking a threat by the prosecutor to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
Moments after identifying a suspect, Philadelphia police get a lead that results in an arrest.
Two Philadelphia police officers were shot but uninjured early Wednesday, and a man was in custody following a standoff that lasted several hours, police said.
Philadelphia police say DNA evidence recovered at the scene of a murder matches two other murders in the area.
DNA has linked the slayings of three women, Philadelphia police said Tuesday night in announcing they are looking for a serial killer.
Investigators are looking into whether the strangulation death of a 27-year-old woman is linked to a series of recent attacks on females in a central Philadelphia neighborhood, police say.
Police are investigating what they say could be a link between five attacks in a Philadelphia neighborhood, including two recent homicides and three aggravated assaults. Because of the location, the method and the description of the victims, police believe there is a correlation between the homicides and assaults.
A woman is in custody after a shooting at a Kraft Foods plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thursday night, Philadelphia police said.
Murky water and fast currents on Thursday kept divers away from a tour boat that is resting on the bottom of the Delaware River after a collision a day earlier with a barge. Two of the "Duck" boat's 37 passengers were still missing and hopes were fading for a rescue.
Two are still missing and an investigation under way after a duck boat and a barge collided on the Delaware River.
A tourist boat with more than 30 people on board overturned on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wednesday after it was hit by a barge, Philadelphia police and the Coast Guard said.
A tourist boat carrying 37 people collides with a barge on the Delaware River.
CNN's Randi Kaye explores why a Philadelphia police officer shot himself, then blamed the shooting on a black man.
Ten years ago, teen Daniel Giddings shot a man during an attempted robbery and was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison.
Cyrus Zacharia Shepherd-Oppenheim, 22, is accused of taking items on a coast-to-coast flight
The federal government will give $1 billion in grants to law enforcement agencies in every state to pay for the hiring and rehiring of law enforcement officers, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday.
A group of black Philadelphia police officers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against their department, alleging an online forum geared toward city police is "infested with racist, white supremacist and anti-African-American content."
Lisa Michelle Hatchell disappeared on her 37th birthday: July 19, 2003. She was last seen at 10 p.m. on the street outside the Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, rowhome she shared with her boyfriend.
Rupa Mikkilineni revists the case of Lisa Michelle Hatchell who disappeared in Philadelphia on her birthday in 2003.
Imagine the Batmobile busting bad guys in Bismarck, North Dakota, or "Knight Rider's" KITT corralling criminals on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Carbon Motors' E7 concept car was designed by law enforcement professionals to be the ideal car for police work.
Fifteen Philadelphia police officers are being investigated after three suspects are beaten and it's caught on camera.
Four Philadelphia police officers will be fired, three others will be disciplined and a supervising sergeant will be demoted because of the violent beating of three suspects caught after a shooting, the city's mayor and police commissioner said Monday.
The videotaped beatings of three restrained men by several members of the Philadelphia police force were inexcusable but had nothing to do with race, the city's mayor and police commissioner said Thursday.
A man named as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police officer last week was captured at a shelter in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said at a news conference.
Philadelphia police search for a man seen on surveillance video and is accused of killing a cop in a donut shop.
On the streets of Philadelphia's toughest neighborhoods, just trying to get ahead can get you killed.
Someone gets killed on the mean streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, almost everyday. CNN's David Mattingly reports
Philadelphia police were questioning a man Friday about the shooting deaths of two armed guards Thursday during an armored car robbery.
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