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More than 50% of Philly residents have family or friends struggling with substance abuse. One in three know someone who died ...
Philadelphia on Monday plans to temporarily shut down a stretch of Kensington Avenue — a street known worldwide as an open-air drug market — to clear out homeless encampments. Kensington has ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia will temporarily shut down Kensington Avenue from East Orleans Street to Allegheny Avenue on Wednesday in Kensington as city workers clear an encampment of ...
A city worker power washes the sidewalk of Kensington Avenue during the city’s sweep of Kensington Avenue on May 8, 2024. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...
Newly released surveillance video shows a suspect casually firing a gun down the street as he walks through a Philadelphia ...
PHILADELPHIA — Kensington has for years ... One gloomy August afternoon on Kensington Avenue, concerned helpers checked pulses and nudged users who were sprawled out across the sidewalk in ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- An encampment along part of Kensington Avenue in the Kensington section of Philadelphia was cleared out on Wednesday morning, but the question remains: what happens now?
A fresh wave of fear chilled Philadelphia’s Kensington Avenue over the weekend, when 22-year-old Allison Edwards was found strangled in an apartment in the nearby Juniata Park neighborhood.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia's chief public safety director said the Parker administration's clearing of the homeless encampments along Kensington Avenue Wednesday morning was a "successful ...
Last May, Philadelphia police and city workers cleared sidewalks of tents, structures and people along a two-block stretch of Kensington Avenue, the start of an ongoing effort to reduce open-air ...
A man was shot and killed in a daylight shooting that happened along Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia's Kensington community on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. According to police, the incident happened ...