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Philly Council Moves to Ban ICE Masks and Raids on City Property

The Philadelphia City Council on Monday advanced a seven-bill legislative package that would ban ICE agents from wearing masks, using unmarked vehicles, or operating on city-owned property, moving the...

Two Ironworkers Pulled From Grays Ferry Rubble After Five-Day Operation

Philadelphia recovered the bodies of two ironworkers from the wreckage of a Children's Hospital of Philadelphia parking garage early Monday, five days after the seven-story structure partially collapsed in...

Kensington Avenue is getting a police substation, which the PPD hopes can benefit surrounding neighborhoods as well

The Philadelphia Police Department’s 24th district, which includes Kensington, Port Richmond, Harrowgate and Juniata, currently leads the city with 46 homicides so far this...

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REUNIONS Thomas Junior High reunion set for October 2021 An all-class reunion for the former George C. Thomas Junior High School will take place on Oct....

Historians, community advocates fret over the future of former Penn Home building in Fishtown

When the Star asked historian Oscar Beisert if he thought the now former Penn Home building - Fishtown’s oldest structure dating more than 250...

To an ordinary person, it would have been the ultimate act of bravery. But Sean Dugan isn’t your ordinary person, and he was just doing...

Fishtown neighbors come together to show support for family who lost son to suicide

Standing in front of a small crowd of his fellow Fishtown residents at the corner of Albert and Tulip streets Wednesday evening, Tony Cassetta...

Pulling for Petey

Petey didn’t have much going for him when his owner, St. John Cantius pastor the Rev. Joseph J. Zingaro, passed away in May from...
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