Four people were killed in the area over the Labor Day weekend, and this morning two more men were found slain in a second floor apartment over an electronics store in North Philadelphia. But good things also happened this Labor Day weekend, like a nice Labor Day parade, and Pennsylvania State Sen. Anthony H. Williams' annual street party in West Philadelphia where more than 2,500 people got free meals of hot dogs and turkey burgers.......

Yesterday former skinhead Thomas Gibison was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison by a Common Pleas Court judge for conspiring to commit a racial killing more than two decades ago. A Philadelphia police officer was responding to a call to assist another officer around 1AM this morning when his police car collided with another car at a downtown intersection. The officer is listed in critical condition, but his prognosis is good. Yesterday, the......

Photo of Charlton Athletic FC and the Thames Barrier by Dean Nicholas. Londonist was treated to some fantastic views of the city, courtesy of the 'Star Over London' airship.Bostonist spent the week celebrating New England's quintessential summer meal, the lobster roll.Torontoist explored the dangerous lives of stickmen.Seattlest wondered if a suicide prevention net was really the best idea for stopping people from jumping off the Aurora bridge.Gothamist was grossed out when hearing a man......

The high-speed car chase and wreck on Roosevelt Boulevard that led to the death of a 17-year-old boy appears to have come out of a dispute over a 14-month-old baby—a baby who died early yesterday morning from injuries sustained in the crash. Philadelphia photographer, founder of phillyskyline.com, and friend of Phillyist Brad Maule has sued The Colbert Report, and the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer for using his photographs without permission. He is seeking......

Berks County is featured in one the strangest hauntings regarding road-related weirdness. At Hawk Sanctuary Mountain there is a legend that a shining, ten-feet tall apparition spooks drivers travelling along the two-road lane which ascends the mountain. The mountain, situated between Ecksville and Bailey's Crossing, is also allegedly haunted by the spirits of settlers who were killed by Indians during the 1700s. Meanwhile Bristol - located in the extreme south of Bucks County, northeast of......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Former Midway employee Patrick Goschy says he will "sue Nintendo for patent infringement, claiming that he created the idea of a motion controlled system very similar to the Wiimote/Nunchuk combo currently in use in Nintendo's Wii." Click through for a video he released of him showing off his system way back in 1999. John Rogers, who obviously has......

The Daily News suggests strongly that if the city made use of private ambulances when Fire Department medic units are swamped with calls, it could make the difference between life and death for certain patients. Philadelphia doesn't use nonmunicipal ambulances because of legal issues. Also in the Daily News this morning is an article providing more details on the case of the three North Philadelphia teenagers killed in a car accident on Saturday. Last......

The Pennsylvania Turnpike has been closed in both directions between the Philadelphia and Willow Grove interchanges, and is likely to stay closed most of the morning, due to a fiery five-car accident earlier today involving a tractor trailer and a pickup truck. Thankfully, as of this writing, no fatalities have been reported. The Fort Dix suspects are asking to be moved Special Housing Unit at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia due to the fact......

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom......

Local actress, director, and former General Manager of the Vagabond Acting Troupe Jackie Kay Knox was tragically killed in a car accident yesterday morning. Few other details are available at this time. The Friends Center at 15th and Cherry is getting a $12.5-million green renovation that will free it of its reliance on fossil fuels. The renovation includes a vegetated roof - the largest such roof in Philadelphia, and the first in Center City. We......

A veteran Philly cop got drunk off-duty, jumped in his car early Sunday, and promptly rammed it into a marked police car in West Philly, injuring a fellow officer. He's been "charged with aggravated assault, driving under the influence, recklessly endangering another person and related offenses." An abandoned warehouse in West Kensington was the site of the start of a 7-alarm fire Wednesday morning that led to the evacuation of people within a two-block......

Hey, how about this lovely weather we're having lately? We've got a nor'easter in the area, today supplying us with flooding, high-speed winds, and snow and rain at the same time. Is it really Springtime, or is it the end of the world? You decide! A U. Penn researcher is using Science!TM to try to disprove a fascinating story about maidens ritually killing themselves in a Mesopotamian tomb 4,600 years ago. The guy who......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Starter for 10 - A romantic comedy set in '80s Britain, where a working class kid, along the way to achieving his dream of appearing on University Challenge (a TV quiz show), falls in love with his teammate and decides "to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills." Charles Dance and James McAvoy star. Can't say we're too interested in this one, but it......

Every so often I might wander over to CNN. But just to glance the top headlines. To catch up if I've been out of touch - I don't own a TV. Mostly though, even that duty has been relegated to MSN and even, the BBC. Besides CNN.com's systematic dumbing down in the last year - continued reporting on all things inane, ranging from Suri Cruise to Lindsay Lohan, as well as the introduction of Cliff's......

There are a lot of incredible athletes in the U.S. that don't get half the attention they deserve. If Lance Armstrong hadn't come up with those yellow bracelets, would we even know who he was? Can anyone name three players on the U.S. soccer team? Did you know that the Paralympics exist? Perhaps the most overlooked athletes of all, the members U.S. quad rugby team, finally get some long overdue exposure in Think Film's......

People often make outrageous claims like, “You have a better chance of getting killed in a car accident than getting eaten by a shark.” Well, no shit, genius. Since we humans don’t spend hours every day wading in shark infested waters, but rather on car infested highways, that proclamation is true, but quite pointless. The reason we bring this up is because Sunday marks the commencement of Shark Week, one of the most entertaining (and......

What a week for reality TV junkies! On Wednesday, we have Beauty and the Geek: The Aftermath, which will only appeal to those who subjected themselves to the rest of the series. Wednesday's show does seem promising, though, as we will get to see Philly's own Krystal congratulate Penn medical student Chuck, who won it all last week [Wednesday, 8 pm, WB]. For those of who prefer "educational and cultural" to "shameless and sensational",......