PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It was a three-day blitz to target drugs and violent crime in a Philadelphia neighborhood hit very hard by both. Mayor Jim Kenney announced the results Monday of the sweeping ...
A monthslong investigation targeting the movement of fentanyl between Kensington and the Philadelphia suburbs led to 94 arrests and the seizure of $365,000 in narcotics since September, the ...
Nearly two years into the city's efforts to shut down Kensington's open-air drug market, some of the neighborhood's most ...
A man was charged in connection to a drug trafficking ring in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, District Attorney Larry Krasner announced on Monday. From March 12, 2025, through April 28, 2025, ...
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — A nonprofit called Prevention Point is helping Philadelphia residents by fighting the opioid epidemic on the front lines. Nish Patel and his coworkers at Prevention Point prepare ...
The FBI and federal prosecutors on Friday announced a "historic" indictment charging 33 alleged members of the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization accused of fueling Kensington’s open-air ...
KENSINGTON (WPVI) -- The Clay Studio has helped mold and mend neighborhoods in Philadelphia for decades and now it has a new home in Kensington, the epicenter of the opioid epidemic. The non-profit is ...
It’s the second time City Council appeared poised to restrict mobile service providers, which are groups that operate out of vans or trucks and offer a range of assistance to people in need.
A violent drug trafficking organization accused of flooding Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood with fentanyl and heroin has been dismantled, the FBI detailed in an updated release on Thursday, Oct ...
HOUSTON -- The heroin epidemic has spiraled out of control in some parts of the U.S., and several dozen people have overdosed in Ohio after authorities there found they took heroin laced with a ...