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Lawyers for the union recently asked the judge overseeing the case to block a subpoena from Dougherty’s defense team seeking access to the union chief’s e-mails between 2010 and late last year. → Read More
Bill Omar Carrasquillo, 36, was sentenced to 5½ years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $30 million in assets Tuesday. → Read More
Bill Omar Carrasquillo amassed a $30 million fortune selling access to streaming cable TV content hijacked from set-top boxes at prices as low as $15 a month. → Read More
Federal prosecutors say a coworker of Ronald Andrulonis, 37, of Northeast Philadelphia, quickly identified him from surveillance footage and a selfie he shot and posted to Instagram. → Read More
Councilmember Bobby Henon joins Philadelphia's political Hall of Shame. → Read More
“I tried my best to help every Philadelphian, especially those who were vulnerable and those in need,” Henon said in court. ”By putting the interest of my union first, I failed you." → Read More
Bobby Henon served on City Council for a decade prior to his conviction on bribery and fraud charges. → Read More
“Many of us in the building know that this dog was not completely innocent," said one neighbor, describing the violent incident three weeks before the dog's death Monday. → Read More
“The seriousness of the harm that Henon’s conduct has inflicted upon the city of Philadelphia and the public trust cannot be overstated,” prosecutors wrote in filings Thursday. → Read More
A Temple University police officer who “tried to intervene in a carjacking” was shot and killed Saturday night near 17th Street and Montgomery Avenue near the campus border. → Read More
"If I died it would be something I was so passionate for, so whatever. Lol,” Rachel Myers, 33, of Port Richmond texted a friend in the run-up to the attack. → Read More
Perry Abbonizio, a managing partner and investment salesman for the Old City merchant cash advance lender, is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy charges on Wednesday. → Read More
The officers' guns were taken after an Inquirer investigation found they were improperly paid $76,000 in city funds to coach boxing. Children of police also got thousands of dollars to participate. → Read More
Jim Robinson, of Schwenksville, told the FBI that as a fourth-degree master black belt, he'd always been taught to help people in need. He said he was drawn in by screams coming from the building. → Read More
As Catholic activist Mark Houck stands trial for allegedly shoving a Planned Parenthood volunteer, the fireworks in the courtroom were rivaled only by those erupting around the case outside of it. → Read More
The Rev. William McCandless was transferred to DeSales University in Lehigh County after pornographic images of children were found on a computer at his church in Monte Carlo. → Read More
Marie Beren, a former staffer for Philadelphia City Councilmember Mark Squilla, was a key cooperator in the election fraud case that sent former U.S. Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers back to prison. → Read More
After the attack, James Rahm Jr. posted on Facebook that he'd walked through Pelosi's office and should have "s— on her chair." A judge sentenced him Wednesday to a year in prison. → Read More
A man who authorities say threatened a security guard with a weapon outside the federal courthouse in Center City on Tuesday morning has been charged with attempted murder of a federal officer. → Read More
The incident happened around 9:30 a.m. near Seventh and Arch Streets. → Read More