The trooper who arrested the head of Philadelphia’s LGBT affairs and her husband, an incident captured in a video circulated on social media, “is no longer employed” by Pennsylvania State Police, the agency says. It was unclear whether the trooper, whose name has not been released, was let go or resigned, but the trooper was […]
A pair of brothers have added another historic location to Philadelphia: Their venture Two Locals Brewing Company, a sprawling 6,000-square-foot brew pub in the city’s expanding University City section of West Philadelphia, is Pennsylvania’s first known Black-owned craft brewery. “It just meant a lot to us to be here,” Mengistu Koiler said. “This is where […]
Cherelle Parker, who has held local and state office and first got involved in politics as a teenager, publicly swore her oath of office on Tuesday as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor, becoming the first woman to do so. The 51-year-old Democrat with years of political experience took the helm of the nation’s sixth-largest city in a […]