Category: Local News

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — LL Cool J says he won’t be performing at Philadelphia’s 4th of July celebration concert as long as the strike is ongoing with District Council 33, the…

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia police are searching for a pair of suspects for several violent robberies in or near parking lots in Center City. Investigators with Central Detectives are putting…

ABINGTON TWP., Pa. (WPVI) — The armed suspect seen on rollerblades robbing an Abington, Pennsylvania, gas station is now in police custody. Thirty-two-year-old Michael Gordon, of Hatboro, was arrested and…

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a “declaration of dissent” with its policies, accusing them of “unlawfully undermining” the Trump…

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES — We’re six weeks into the summer movie season, and the live action version of “Lilo & Stitch” has been a hit since day one. It’s on…

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Thousands of AFSCME District Council 33 members, Philadelphia’s largest blue-collar union, are now on strike. Union members provide services that include everything from trash pickup, 911 dispatch,…

Shortly after the city announced 63 temporary sites for residents to drop off garbage while municipal workers strike, alarming images of one Center City spot began circulating. MORE: Drexel and…

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker delivered impassioned remarks on Thursday as negotiations between the city and the largest blue-collar workers union remain at a standstill. MORE | Latest…

After a two-year process, the merger between Drexel and Salus universities was finalized by the Department of Education on Thursday. Drexel will absorb Salus’ Elkins Park campus, three clinical facilities,…

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Mountains of trash were piling up in parts of Philadelphia on Thursday as a strike by blue-collar city workers continued for a third day. Sanitation workers are…