The big story is the huge fire that started early last night at the Riverwalk at Millennium apartment complex in Conshohocken. The fire destroyed three buildings and left three others damaged. Residents of the apartments are trying to cope with the loss of their homes and, in some cases, pets. This morning, fire trucks were still on the scene and firefighters were napping on the sidewalk as embers from the buildings smoldered. In the wake......

When Eagles defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley returned to his South Philadelphia townhouse after a preseason game early Saturday morning, he found it had been ransacked. Someone forced open his back door and made off with $7,950 worth of guns, video game systems, and cameras. Police say evidence was collected at the scene that would hopefully lead them to a suspect. Yesterday, amid criticism that they were seeking to profit from their child's death, Andrea and......

The Swan Day Spa in wealthy Berwyn on the Main Line was a front for a brothel, and the three people who ran it were arrested in Nevada and Pennsylvania yesterday. Vandals pushed over more than 200 headstones at a historic African American cemetery in Collingdale, including the stone of famed Philadelphia civil-rights activist Octavius V. Catto. A state trooper and member of a collision/accident-reconstruction team in Philadelphia was arrested for allegedly using his state-issued......

Yesterday Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey fired four police officers and disciplined four others for taking part in the infamous videotaped beating of three shooting suspects. "Students from four Philadelphia-area high schools are meeting at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia today, with other students videoconferencing from as far away as Louisiana, to discuss issues in the presidential election and create a student agenda for the candidates." As promised, Governor Rendell announced the highest......

Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross are getting married! We're freaking out!! (Via Sarah) The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Building at 16th and Callowhill Streets was evacuated yesterday morning when a white, powdery substance was found in a third-floor office. The substance turned out to be foot powder. D'oh. (Via Sarah) An accident on the westbound Pennsylvania Turnpike between the Mid-County and Valley Forge interchanges led to the death of the driver of a FedEx......

On Saturday, members of the Philadelphia Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), set off to march twenty-five miles from the National Constitution Center to Valley Forge National Historical Park, "to show support for veterans and service members testifying at Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan," an IVAW event occurring in Washington, D.C. March 13-16. The event gets its name from a quote by Thomas Paine, who said that winter soldiers are those who......

The Daily News suggests strongly that if the city made use of private ambulances when Fire Department medic units are swamped with calls, it could make the difference between life and death for certain patients. Philadelphia doesn't use nonmunicipal ambulances because of legal issues. Also in the Daily News this morning is an article providing more details on the case of the three North Philadelphia teenagers killed in a car accident on Saturday. Last......

Myra Morton, the woman charged with the death of her husband in the millionaire polygamist case, waived her hearing yesterday. She'll be formally arraigned in October. Prosecutors say she killed her husband because she didn't want to have to share with his new wife "the $6 million remaining from a legal settlement in a 2001 malpractice case involving the couple's teenage daughter." It was move-in day at Temple yesterday, and there was a strict......

Yesterday morning a man was shot mere steps from his home on Tioga Avenue, on the corner of North Seventh Street in North Philadelphia, and became the city's 200th homicide victim this year. Tonight Michael Nutter will be celebrating his 50th birthday with a campaign fundraiser party at a restaurant in Old City. Yesterday the SEPTA board decided that bus, subway and rail fares will increase by an average of 11 percent on July......

Philadelphia mail carriers took part in an all-day drill yesterday wherein they were timed while delivering empty cardboard boxes to 52,000 homes in three neighborhoods, simulating the delivery of packages of medicine that would take place in the event of an attack involving biological or chemical agents. Rachel Marie Brooks, a U Penn graduate from Broomall, became 2007's Miss Pennsylvania Saturday night, which means she'll represent our fair state in the Miss America competition......

Looking for some outdoor fun this weekend? If AccuWeather is to be believed, it won't be raining, so you'll be able to join the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia for their Freedom Valley Ride. There will be five routes to choose from, all incorporating stretches of the Schuylkill River Trail, which proceeds from previous Rides helped build. Those routes range from an eight-mile "easy" ride to a 68-mile journey that will take you all the......

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is trying to get more recruits to area Catholic schools via a new $500,000 marketing campaign. Maybe they should try the "Buddy Christ?" Meanwhile, a lot of work needs to be done, and a lot of money needs to be raised, if they're going to get the Sister Clara Muhammad School and the Philadelphia Masjid at 47th Street back up and running again. Apparently, part of Valley Forge is an......

Hey! Detmer's back! Somebody realized that the visitor experience at Valley Forge is kind of lame, so they're spending $6 million to improve it. They plan to do this by restoring the historical landscape, replacing the current parking lot with an orchard, refurbishing the old train station and using it as an orientation spot, and adding multimedia exhibits, including video and audio podcasts. There aren't too many more details available yet about that New......

No, we did not get a Wii this weekend. Yes, we are exceedingly depressed about it. Regardless, we're still going to bring you the best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. It's just not going to have anything to do with video games. Banksy the guerrilla street aritst sneaks into famous museums and installs his art pieces next to the "legitimate" ones, complete with explanatory plaques. We love this......

- Looks like there's a Revolutionary War museum in Valley Forge's future. - The sentence is in on corrupt councilman Rick Mariano: 6.5 years in the federal pen. Maybe he'll get Lil' Kim's former cell. (via) - Is there another SEPTA strike on the horizon? Could be. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (the folks that run the trains) are currently working without a contract, and a "timetable has begun that would enable......

It's no news that Penn's got plans to develop some real estate on the west side of the Schuylkill, but Phillyist didn't know there were plans for the river and river banks as well. Phillyist and a friend were offered free passes for a boat tour of the Schuylkill in exchange for being booted out of a local coffee shop before closing (nicest.bum's rush.ever), where we learned the following things: *The Water Works are much......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Reception for the 2006 Artists: From 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Eastern State Penitentiary (22nd and Fairmount) is hosting a First Friday meet and greet of the artists whose work they will be exhibiting this season. Free. Hands and Knees: Friday DJ dance party at the M-Room (15 W. Girard Ave). $5 (21+) Five Spot House Party: Weekly event with DJ Lowbudget & Gregg Nyce. $5 before midnight,......