Source: LinkedIn Donyall D. Dickey, the School District of Philadelphia’s chief academic support officer, is leaving to take a position with Atlanta Public Schools, a School District spokesman has confirmed. Dickey, who came to Philadelphia after serving as a principal…
Six former Philadelphia narcotics officers, who were arrested in July 2014 in what Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey called “one of the worst cases of corruption” he’d ever seen, have been reinstated to the force, a Police Department spokesman confirmed to City…
A video uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday shows a group of at least a dozen Philadelphia police officers brutally beating and tasing a 22-year-old black man, who had been riding his bike through East Germantown in April. In the video,…
Charles Mostoller Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey It took exactly one day for Lodge 5 of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) to file an unfair labor practice charge against Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey after he announced that the Philadelphia…
Mark Stehle Warden William Lawton is constantly making repairs to the jail, originally built in 1874. Mark Stehle Jail cells holding three inmates are about the size of a college dorm room. Mark Stehle Copper pipes that snake along the…
Mark Stehle Andre Boyer is suing Lodge 5 of the Fraternal Order of Police. Ex-Philadelphia Police officer Andre Boyer, who, according to the Inquirer, had in his career amassed more civilain complaints than any other officer on the force before…
American children do not, for the most part, grow up dreaming to work as corrections officers. Most obviously, the job requires voluntarily hanging out in a prison for hours at a time, which sounds awful enough before factoring in officers’…
Mark Stehle Sister Mary Scullion announces the Mercy and Justice Initiative fundraising campaign. With 97 days until Pope Francis arrives in Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families, the largest gathering of Catholic families in the world, Sister Mary…
Charles Mostoller/Metro A West Philadelphia water main burst over the weekend, effecvitely turning the block of 52nd Street and Pennsgrove Street into a bayou for a few hours on Sunday. Though the hurricane-level flooding has since receded, the water seeped…
The outside temperature, today, according to Accuweather.com, is expected to stretch up into the low nineties, just as it has been since last week. It’s hot, in near record-breaking fashion (the hottest it’s ever been in Philly on June 16…
