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Tabernacle Township schools were placed under shelter‑in‑place Monday while New Jersey State Police investigated. Dismissals and after‑school plans were disrupted.
A Bensalem home nurse was arrested after surveillance allegedly showed her abusing a medically fragile child; police say the child was taken to CHOP and the caregiver faces charges.
Roughly a dozen clergy were detained at the ICE garage in Center City on March 30 after attempting to block agency vehicles during a No ICE Philly action. Organizers tied the protest to Holy Week and Passover.
An argument outside Lefty’s on Pittsburgh’s North Side ended with shots fired at a passing car; police arrested a suspect and no one was hurt.
Middletown Township police warned of overnight thefts from vehicles and multiple auto thefts across the township; one stolen car was recovered in Trenton.
A body was found inside a burning vehicle on South 9th Street near the Reading city line early Sunday. Berks County coroner's office has taken custody and an autopsy is scheduled.
A woman was shot Sunday on the 500 block of West Montgomery Avenue in North Philadelphia and taken to an area hospital. Police say the case is under investigation and no arrests have been announced.
Two men were shot early Monday inside an unauthorized pop-up hookah lounge near Temple University; both are in stable condition and police are seeking witnesses.
Four years after James Marcus Taylor's killing in Frankford, police say leads have stalled and a $20,000 reward still stands.
A two-alarm blaze sent multiple crews to the 2000 block of Dutton Mill Road in Aston on Sunday; crews contained the fire in about an hour and no injuries were reported.
SWAT teams surrounded a Havertown home after a sibling dispute; police arrested a man and discovered active warrants.
A man shot in Darby was later struck by a CSX train and flown to Penn Presbyterian; police say he later died and are investigating the sequence of events.
Federal prosecutors say 63-year-old Kwame Boahene was arrested March 25 in a multimillion-dollar romance-fraud scheme that touched victims nationwide, including Delaware.
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