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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
Philadelphia is on the world stage as the FIFA Club World Cup is underway, and business is booming in the City of Brotherly Love. Jake Joyce, Senior VP of Marketing at Live! Casino in South Philly, said FIFA is bringing the area to life. "What's really, really cool is the diversity of the crowd, a very different set of customers than you are normally seeing during baseball season right now," Joyce said.
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2 weeks ago | 
cbsnews.com | Aziza Shuler |Jim McHugh
Inside 1 of the 6 resource centers in Philly providing safe activities for children this summer Just weeks after a deadly shooting at Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia City Council is working to provide safe and accessible activities for children this summer. A lot is happening under one roof at 4704 Leiper Street in Philadelphia's Frankford neighborhood.
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2 weeks ago | 
cbsnews.com | Siafa Lewis |Jim McHugh
Friends and family to celebrate the return of a Marine in Holmesburg after four years abroad Friends and family gathered in Northeast Philadelphia's Holmesburg neighborhood on Friday to celebrate the return of a son, brother, grandson, nephew and friend after four years abroad with the United States Marine Corps.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
A vigil for the victims of the Memorial Day mass shooting in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park was held on Tuesday night. One week later, and there are still no answers for the shooting that left two dead and nine others injured. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel, along with other city and faith leaders, gathered in a circle with the family of 23-year-old Amya Devlin, who was killed in the shooting along with 21-year-old Mikhail Bowers.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
A community gathered in grief, sending balloons and prayers into the sky on Friday as Philadelphia police continue to search for the people behind the deadly Memorial Day shooting in Fairmount Park. James Hargrove sat on the steps of a house where his 21-year-old grandson, Mikhail Bowers, had grown up years ago in North Philadelphia. "I'm hurting, but I can't cry. I've been crying too much," said Hargrove.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
Philadelphia pastor who works with teens says listening, understanding are key to stopping violence It's Dr. Damone Jones' life's work and passion to help young people in the criminal justice system, many charged as adults. He's the senior pastor of Bible Way Baptist Church and president of the BrothaHood Foundation, a basketball mentoring organization that goes to Philadelphia prisons.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Nikki DeMentri |Jim McHugh
From the Jersey Shore to the Poconos, thousands of people were on the roads Friday in the Philadelphia area. "It's (traffic) pretty crazy. There's a lot of people everywhere!" Joshua Filzer said at the King of Prussia Service Plaza. On 76, it was stop-and-go traffic Friday night, and it looked the same from Chopper 3 over the Atlantic City Expressway. Filzer was hoping to avoid the backups. "Uh, we tried, but it's easier said than done," a dad from North Jersey said.
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1 month ago | 
local21news.com | Laura Fay |Jim McHugh
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (KYW) — A medical helicopter landed on the lawn of a home in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, Monday evening, Montgomery County officials said. No one was injured in the emergency landing that happened just after 7:40 p.m. on Musket Road near Cannon Hill Road, officials said. "We got very lucky tonight, it's a miracle," Whitemarsh Police Chief Christopher Ward said. "The pilot did an amazing job from all accounts.
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1 month ago | 
local21news.com | Tom Dougherty |Siafa Lewis |Jim McHugh
An officer is in critical condition after he was shot while police were breaking up a large fight outside Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said. The officer was shot once in the stomach and is recovering at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
Princeton Bailey went viral mimicking José Alvarado's every move in the Philadelphia Phillies' win on Tuesday night against the Washington Nationals. While Alvarado pitched a scoreless eighth inning to help the Phillies in their 7-6 victory over Washington, Bailey was captured on the broadcast copying the pitcher's movements, imagining he, too, was on the mound. "I did the same move," Bailey said. Then, both Bailey and Alvarado celebrate getting out of the inning alive.
