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Adult son convicted, sentenced to life for shooting and beheading father in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania man who posted a video of his father’s severed head on YouTube was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole.
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The challenger who narrowly lost to GOP Rep. Scott Perry wants another chance to beat him in 2026
Democrat Janelle Stelson, who lost to Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry by barely a percentage point in 2024, will run again in the right-leaning congressional district in Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania man charged with beheading father says he was trying to perform a citizen’s arrest
The Pennsylvania man charged with fatally shooting then beheading his father and posting it on YouTube said on the stand Wednesday that the killing was “Plan B” after trying to arrest his father for what he called false statements and treason.
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Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect on 40 years of Live Aid
Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good — helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause it might otherwise have ignored.
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Philadelphia workers and city reach a deal to end strike that halted residential trash pickup
A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong strike that halted residential curbside trash pickup and affected other services.
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UPenn updates swimming records set by Lia Thomas, settling with feds on transgender athletes case
The University of Pennsylvania modified a trio of school records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and said it would apologize to female athletes “disadvantaged” by her participation on the women’s swimming team, part of a resolution of a federal civil rights case.
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LL Cool J says he won’t perform at Philadelphia’s July Fourth festival in support of workers strike
Rapper LL Cool J and R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan say they will not perform at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in support of a strike by nearly 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia.
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WNBA expanding to Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia over next five years
The WNBA is expanding to 18 teams over the next five years, with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia all set to join the league by 2030.
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Pennsylvania man accused of beheading father and posting video of his severed head to stand trial
A Pennsylvania man accused of killing his father and posting video of his severed head online — and calling for others to help him try to overthrow the U.S. government — is set to stand trial Monday in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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3 dead, 10 injured in South Philadelphia shooting and a person is in custody, police say
The three people who died were adults, and two of the wounded were juveniles, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel told reporters. The shooting happened shortly before 1 a.m. along a residential street in Grays Ferry, he said.
