PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Tuesday marked a new day in Philadelphia as Mayor Cherelle Parker was publicly sworn in as the city's first female - and its 100th - mayor during her inauguration ceremony at ...

(Mark Scolforo/AP) Regarding the Nov. 24 editorial “A misguided move”: The Philadelphia city government is failing in its first duty: providing public safety. If the impeachment of the ...

Philadelphia is standing against gun violence on Tuesday with two events, one week after the fatal Lemon Hill mass shooting.

The first group of Philadelphia’s new public safety enforcement officers are ready to hit the streets to supplement police officers. More than a dozen of the new workers took the oath of office at ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Wednesday was Mayor Cherelle Parker's first full day in office as Philadelphia's 100th mayor. She joined an event previewing this year's MLK Day of Service events and says ...

We have new public safety officials. And the fact is ... We thought things were bad in 2006. That’s when Philadelphia recorded 406 homicides in one year, the most we had seen in a decade.

Footage from the scene in Philadelphia shows a massive cloud of black smoke billowing into the skies, with firefighters ...

Philadelphia’s public safety leaders have created what they hope is a one-stop-shop for residents looking for information and resources related to gun violence. The guide includes a 25-page directory ...

With these statistics in mind, the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia hosted a forum on “Securing a Safer City” last week to discuss public safety and what businesses and citizens of ...

New Philadelphia's new safety director. "Certainly, recruitment and retention is a problem with public safety across the country," he said. "Fewer and fewer young people are getting into the ...

Footage from the scene in Philadelphia shows a massive cloud of black smoke billowing into the skies, with firefighters ...