Philadelphia City Council

Drexel blamed the closure on a decrease in attendance and the university's financial woes as reasons.

Philadelphia City Council members want to hold a special hearing next month to hear from the museum's leadership.

A prominent longtime executive with the Phillies organization has died.

Chairman Emeritus Bill Giles passed away at his home in Gladwin this afternoon.

All right, Sharifa, thank you.

Philadelphia City Council is calling on state lawmakers to ban flock cameras and either ban or heavily regulate automatic license plate reader technology.

Flock cameras are used across the country by law enforcement to track vehicles, solve crimes, and search for missing people.

We've covered this extensively already.

So they are places where you can take serious thought, hear about real problems, and actually do something about it in a fashion that's rapid.

I don't know the makeup of Philadelphia City Council, but in the city of Atlanta, which is definitely one of the most important cities in the country, certainly in the Southeast, It takes eight votes and the signature of the mayor to do almost anything.

If you contrast that to the federal level where there are 435, 100 senators, a president, various cabinet members, I think of the number of days that it will take me to move the needle on something I care about, and I'm from Atlanta.

So if you can imagine having the opportunity to do that in your hometown where you're from, it's really impactful.

Investigators say he chased and harassed people, various people, in Center City during the early morning hours of August 12th.

Philadelphia City Council convened a special committee on gun violence prevention.

Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel testified yesterday about the dropping homicide rate and how to make sure the trend continues.

Bethel also addressed the increase in so-called youth takeovers, especially in Center City.

Nearly 5,000 doses of the MMR vaccine have been administered at pop-up clinics since the spring.

Philadelphia City Council member Isaiah Thomas is celebrating five years since the passage of the driving equality law.

The first in the nation legislation limits the enforcement of some minor traffic stops.

It's designed to cut back on interactions between motorists of color and law enforcement.