The Latest Breaking News from Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Heaps of bricks, twisted metal and splintered wood spilled across West Indiana Avenue and Third Street in Fairhill on Sunday morning, the battered sign for Star Pizza & Seafood jutting from the rubble.

PHILADELPHIA — A 51-year-old Philadelphia firefighter was killed in an early-morning building collapse Saturday that has devastated the Fire Department and left a neighborhood shaken. Two other firefighters were hospitalized in critical but stable condition.

‘You can’t predict this. This was just a catastrophic accident that has really hurt our department’

Philadelphia fire officials say one firefighter has died following a building collapse early Saturday

PITTSBURGH — In the fifth and final inning of his start two weeks ago in Philadelphia, something clicked for Carlos Rodón. Ever since, he has been the lights-out fireballer who showed up to start the season.

PHILADELPHIA — In 2004, new Flyers coach John Tortorella passed through Philadelphia as the coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference final. At the time, he was in just his fifth season as an NHL head coach.

PHILADELPHIA — Prosecutors and defense attorneys continued to trade legal volleys Friday in the case of Joshua Macias, the election denier from Virginia who traveled to the Pennsylvania Convention Center — in a QAnon-emblazoned Hummer containing weapons and ammunition — as votes were being counted in the 2020 presidential election.

PHILADELPHIA — On the night before the 2020 Northwestern University duals, the Temple women’s fencing team filtered out of a restaurant in Chicago and onto the street corner. Before the group started a walk back to the hotel, one of sophomore Cassie Navalta’s teammates delivered news that stopped them in…

Tom Hanks' impressive CV includes starring in Forrest Gump and Philadelphia - but he has acknowledged that those movies are 'timely' and could not be made today in the modern world