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Fans can now sign up for a chance to buy home playoff tickets from the Phillies.

A 20-year-old man is in extremely critical condition after he was run over by a car he was trying to push up the hilly street known as the Manayunk Wall early today in Northwest Philadelphia, police said.

It is not faint praise to say that the most striking aspect of the interior of the soon-to-open SugarHouse Casino is the spectacularly inventive use of the exceedingly tight 45,000 square feet.

President Obama plans to hold a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak on Sept. 20 in Philadelphia, the Democrat's campaign confirmed Friday.

A man was shot and killed early today in a car in South Philadelphia, police said.

Calling the high school dropout rate for city students one of the most serious problems facing Philadelphia, Mayor Nutter said Thursday his administration would work with the School District to address it.

Saying he was running out of patience with the Delaware River Port Authority, Gov. Christie on Thursday vetoed several recently adopted policy changes, saying they did not go far enough to strengthen the agency's accountability and transparency.

Two more woman have complained that they were sexually harassed by the Philadelphia Housing Authority's executive director, Carl R. Greene, the agency's board chairman said yesterday.

A bullet pierced the window of a day-care center during an exchange of gunfire Thursday afternoon in the city's Overbrook section, police said. No injuries were reported at the day-care center in the 6600 block of Lebanon Avenue, police said. There were 12 young children and two adults inside. The shooting erupted about 3:30 p.m. between at least two people on the street, police said. No injuries were reported and there were no arrests. - Robert Moran

Mammoth Hurricane Earl is unlikely to end New Jersey's streak of 107 years without a hurricane's making landfall. But Shore emergency officials said they weren't quite ready to exhale.

When Haddon Heights Mayor Scott Alexander launched a website for his consulting business last month, he targeted municipal and school officials looking to develop a presence on Twitter or set up a system to pay parking tickets online.

Robbery suspect strikes again Joseph DiFalco, suspected serial bank robber believed responsible for five robberies in the city since late July, struck again yesterday.

DOES T.I. STAND for Total Idiot? That's the only thing we can surmise after the rapper/actor (aka Clifford Harris) was arrested along with his new bride Tameka Cottle on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance (aka pills that resembled Ecstasy).

They say Philly is a city of neighborhoods. But in the summertime, it's a city of block parties. This weekend especially, you can count on plenty of cordoned-off streets.

SOMERSET, Pa. - As a powerful state representative, Mike Veon for years was perfectly coiffed, wore $1,000 custom-made suits, smoked expensive cigars, and sipped Maker's Mark bourbon with lobbyists. He zipped around on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, attended conferences in Las Vegas, and flew back and forth to Harrisburg in a state plane.

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak yesterday revised his explanation from earlier this week about how his request for $350,000 in federal funding for a nonprofit group was really linked to a for-profit company.

A few hours after state and local officials announced a plan to combat a troubling trend at Parx Casino, a seventh guardian left a child alone in a car while the guardian gambled inside.

Bernardo J. Banos has experienced and seen much in 98 years of life. Yesterday, he was summoned to court to recount an unpleasant memory from a year ago today: of being beaten bloody by a bogus Water Department employee who, along with two accomplices, conned his way into Banos' home to rob him.

In sentencing a Southwest Philly man to nine years in prison yesterday, a federal judge said that he was taking into account the need to deter others who would target and rob Asian business owners.