Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Independent School District joins other big districts reconsidering their opening and plans to start with a hybrid of in-person and online learning amid coronavirus.

Philadelphia officials announced Tuesday that all large, public events for the next six months will be canceled over coronavirus concerns, including the famous Thanksgiving Day and Mummers parade.Mayor Jim Kennedy is expected made the announcement during an afternoon news conference, KYW Newsradio first reported.The city's Broad Street Run, which had already been moved to October due to coronavirus,…

Statues, monuments vandalized amid Black Lives Matter protestsStatues originally under fire were Confederate soldiers and generals largely in the South due to the treatment of African-Americans, but the anger has spread to monuments of all backgrounds many of which have been torn down by protesters, and others have been officially removed.Mayor Jim Kenney announced in…

READING, England (CBS/AP) — Eyewitness News has learned one of the victims of a stabbing rampage that killed three people as they sat in a British park on a summer evening is from Philadelphia. Joe Ritchie-Bennett was one of three people killed Saturday in what British investigators are labeling an act of terror. Ritchie-Bennett was…

A Northeast Philadelphia native was among three people stabbed to death Saturday evening during an attack at a park in Southern England that is being investigated as a “terrorist incident.” Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, grew up on Brous Avenue in Mayfair but moved to England about 15 years ago, his father, Robert Ritchie, said. Ritchie said…