PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are mourning the death of an officer who was shot in the head and killed after he and his partner exchanged gunfire with two suspects trying to rob a video game store. Police said Thursday the slain officer, Robert Wilson III, fired back even as he was being shot by […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An underground “body sculptor” charged in the death of a London dancer has tangled with a prosecutor who believes her ever-changing names, addresses and business ventures are the work of a classic con. But the hip-hop artist and onetime escort-service entrepreneur known as the “Black Madam” insists she never tried to defraud […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Gothic hip-hop artist who did illegal cosmetic surgery on the side boasted at her murder trial Thursday that her body sculpting work was so popular she was dubbed “the Michelangelo of buttocks injections.” Padge Victoria Windslowe, who performed under the name “Black Madam,” is accused of killing a 20-year-old dancer from […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fight and stabbing outside a bar early Wednesday left one member of Nicki Minaj’s tour dead and another in critical condition. The tour members had flown into Philadelphia for rehearsals two days earlier, Minaj wrote on Twitter. Police said the two men were stabbed in the city’s West Oak Lane section. […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man confessed to shooting his supervisor to death at a bus stop so she couldn’t report him for stealing about $40,000 from the child advocacy organization where they worked, investigators said Monday. The victim, 56-year-old Kim Jones, suspected Randolph Sanders was stealing from Turning Points for Children, and Sanders was worried […]
UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A man who had posted an online video threatening to kill police and FBI agents tried to use his car to run down officers seeking to arrest him on Tuesday so they shot and killed him, authorities said. Joseph A. Pacini of Clifton Heights was killed in Upper Darby, a […]
In a bizarre scene that unfolded on video, police in Philadelphia, Pa., are searching for a…
In a bizarre scene that unfolded on video, police in Philadelphia, Pa., are searching for a…
Laker player Wayne Ellington Jr. is on indefinite leave from the Lakers after the murder of his father in Philadelphia. The 26-year-old guard got a text from his father earlier that evening before the game. By the time the game was over, his father was dead, the victim of a gunshot wound to head in […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The Roots are tapping into their resources to help raise funds for their alma mater in Philadelphia. The Grammy-winning hip-hop band created the CAPA Foundation after learning that $1.1 million had been cut from the budget of the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. Budget cuts resulted in the loss […]
For iPhone: Philadelphia International Records, Philadelphia’s answer to Motown Records, has been responsible for some of R&B’s most-loved hits over the years, and has given a platform to a bevy of iconic R&B and soul artists. On Wednesday, the iconic Sound Of Philadelphia building that housed Philadelphia International Records and Gamble-Huff Music is […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Members of the Grammy-winning group Boyz II Men are returning to their roots with a concert at their old stomping grounds. The R&B trio will give a private show Tuesday at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative & Performing Arts. That’s where they met more than two decades ago. The concert […]
