Officials in Philadelphia voted at an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to reinstate a security measure that could dramatically slow vote counting in Pennsylvania‘s most populous city. The Philadelphia elections board voted 2-1 at a city commissioners meeting around 7 a.m. following a lawsuit filed by a conservative group challenging their decision last week to do …
PHILADELPHIA — Four people remain in critical condition following a shooting that wounded nine people on a busy northeast Philadelphia street over the weekend, police said. Police said several people emerged from a vehicle and opened fire on a crowd at Kensington and Allegheny avenues in the Kensington neighborhood at about 10:45 p.m. Saturday. Police said …
At least nine people are injured in Philadelphia, five critically, after multiple shooters started firing at a crowd Saturday night, NBC Philadelphia reports. The shooting happened around 10:45p.m. when multiple people got out of a black vehicle and opened fire at a crowd gathered on the sidewalk outside a bar in Kensington, a neighborhood in …
Yordan Alvarez blasted a three-run home run to lead the Houston Astros to a 4-1 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series on Saturday, clinching the home team’s second title in six years. Alvarez sixth-inning play pushed the Astros — then down 1-0 — into the lead. Houston previously won it …
Back-up goalkeeper John McCarthy, who played just one game this season, came off the LAFC bench to make two saves in a penalty-kick shootout, giving the team its first league title in a dramatic MLS Cup final at Banc of California Stadium. The game ended even 3-3 after 90 minutes of regulation and two extra-time …
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies are not the same team from a month ago. The personnel didn’t change; the players, coaching staff, and front office are identical. But they’re somehow a different club anyway. How exactly did that happen? They’ve morphed from a team that fired its manager in June and finished the regular season 87-75 …
PHILADELPHIA — No sooner had Bryce Harper launched the home run that vaulted the Philadelphia Phillies into the World Series than the text message arrived, one fan to another, three words packed with an explosion of joy. “Grease the poles,” the message read. Only in Philadelphia: a civic rallying cry inspired by Crisco. Also only in …
