Cover Story The Land Grab Mary Sanders knows what it’s like to be the last one standing. At 89, she lives alone on the 1800 block of North 16th Street, in a single rowhome that sits like a besieged island…

Cover Story The Land Grab Mary Sanders knows what it’s like to be the last one standing. At 89, she lives alone on the 1800 block of North 16th Street, in a single rowhome that sits like a besieged island…

Mark Stehle Kevin Floyd and his family outside their new apartment in Carroll Park. It was raining on the day in November 2012 when Kevin Floyd and his wife, Chevelle, opened the door of their Carroll Park house to find…

City Paper has obtained copies of what appear to be more than a hundred checks, totaling over $300,000, written out to the Philadelphia Chapter of the NAACP, but deposited in the bank account of Next Generation CDC, a nonprofit corporation…

A class-action federal civil rights lawsuit, filed yesterday by the Institute for Justice, a Libertarian-oriented civil liberties union, and the Philadelphia civil liberties law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing and Feinberg, accuses the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Police Department and…

Neal Santos FAR FROM HOME: Sandra Leino’s former home is up for sheriff’s sale after the DA forced her out and she ultimately lost the property to foreclosure. Leino and her three kids were made homeless in the process. The…

Cover Story The Cash Machine An investigation by City Paper into the Philadelphia District Attorney’s civil asset forfeiture process reveals a “seize first, ask questions later” policy when it comes to seizing individuals’ alleged crime money. email print font size…

This story was made possible by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.  When Philadelphia Police officers stopped Dwayne Marks as he was driving north on Broad Street near Temple University last year, Marks says he wasn’t particularly worried.…

There are in this world some contexts in which $10 million is not a lot of money. Departmental budget lines in the city of Philadelphia are not, for the most part, among them.  In Philadelphia — where a $1.3 million…