A well-heeled doctor. An outlaw biker gang. A massive painkiller supply chain.

African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?

Philadelphia’s District Attorney reinvents the role of the modern prosecutor.

A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.

A look at the rapper’s decade-plus ordeal.

Three killings, three young accused killers, and the two homicide detectives that link them.

The NBA’s most “irrationally confident” player tells his story.

50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s startup world. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff. They make malware.

The challenge of finding answers about some abandoned cremains.

Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.

Uber says its drivers can earn as much as $90,000. The author decided to fact-check that number the only way she could: by becoming a driver herself.

A sociologist learns techniques for evading the authorities.

“It is overwhelmingly young people of color, and those who work in their schools, who will bear the brunt of these closings and witness the worst effects of the budget cuts. Over the last six months, the SDP and the state of Pennsylvania have decided, again and again, that this is acceptable.”

Inside the cult appeal of the hit convenience mart/gas station Wawa.

Intended for cremation, 244 bodies are instead harvested for organs and tissue. The story of the families of the dead, the men who profited off the scheme, and the unwitting recipients of black market body parts.

In the wake of a brazen but mysterious Philadelphia gunfight, Marvin Harrison, the man who holds the NFL record for receptions in a season, may find himself with a permanent record of a different sort.