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Most commercial buildings, restaurants, and big apartment complexes use private haulers to collect their trash. That made a ...
According to police, a woman suffered a stab wound to the abdomen and was transported to Temple University Hospital.
PHILADELPHIA — Kensington has for years been a haven where addicts could freely shoot heroin. But as stronger substances like fentanyl and tranq, the flesh-easting drug, took hold, the ...
Distressing new video shows addicts stumbling in a trance-like state along sidewalks strewn with burning trash heaps at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s “tranq” drug epidemic.. The Kensington ...
From 2012 through 2016, Kensington’s average income was just under $12,670 — about half of the average salary in Philadelphia, a Drexel University study found in 2019. The violent crime rate ...
Philadelphia police officer fighting for life after Kensington shooting, suspect in custody 01:51. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Multiple people, including a person of interest, are in custody after a ...
Philadelphia officials orchestrated a sweep of two blocks of Kensington Avenue where drugs were used openly in Philadelphia on May 8, 2024. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) The May 8 clearing is part of ...
Police say a suspect was arrested in Paramus, New Jersey, in the shooting that critically injured a Philadelphia school ...
The billion dollar open-air drug market in Kensington has been dubbed the largest on the East Coast.. Philadelphia received $20 million in settlement funds in 2023. Over a third of that pot, $7.5 ...
It’s the hottest night of the summer, and on Philadelphia’s Kensington Avenue, underneath the elevated train tracks at Somerset Street, mills a crowd of addicts nearly 100 strong, the biggest ...
I grew up in Kensington, Philadelphia. Let's not glamorize addiction — again : Shots - Health News A young poet and writer who lost his father to opioid addiction says there's nothing cool about ...
Philadelphia debuts a new park along the Delaware River — a 10-acre green space featuring a broad open lawn, upland trails, native meadow, modern restrooms, parking, and hundreds of freshly planted ...