Man found dead in car

The victim had been shot once in the head. Police have no suspects or motive.

A 27-year-old was shot in the head as he sat inside his car Saturday evening on the 2500 block of Montrose Street.

In crime’s shadow

With their glossy-painted forest-green and rust-colored doors and neatly landscaped grounds, the Courtyard Apartments at Riverview represent the new face of public housing.

The January 2000 implosion of the two longstanding Southwark towers at Fifth Street and Washington…

Off to a sobering start

The late Doors leader Jim Morrison sang, “Strange days have found us.”

The lyric certainly seems to describe the crime streak that has gripped the area in the early weeks of 2004.

Colliding tragedies

Amid the ugly rubble and charred remains of what used to be 2241 S. Fifth St., there is beauty: A makeshift memorial for the 26-year-old man and two little girls who died in the Saturday-afternoon fire that tore through their apartment above CJ’s Variety Store.

Man survives ambush

A dozen shots were fired at the victim while he was unpacking groceries from his car.

A 32-year-old was felled by a hail of bullets as he unloaded groceries from his car parked outside his home on the 1600 block of South 19th Street, police said.

Finding her Zen

Deana Sabasino enters the room at St. Agnes Wellness Center, removes her coat and fiddles with a few audiocassettes. She finds what she wants and chats gregariously with the women arriving in workout gear — many of the same faces, but a new one here and there.

Driving toward survival

A proposed municipal program that would provide college scholarships to city children is not fair to thousands of students, according to Councilman-at-Large James Kenney.

The budget Mayor John Street will introduce next month will include plans for the city to…

On the rise

Barry Henry knows the routine. Every morning, the Audenried High senior hears his alarm clock go off at 5:15, and quickly gets ready so he can make it to the school gym by 6.

Time is of the essence, as the basketball players must arrive before coach Hilderbrand Pelzer.

Bullets over Broad Street

Police are still piecing together the details of the incident at a busy intersection that wounded two people, including an innocent bystander.

Shattered glass, chalk marks circling shell casings and police standing guard over yellow crime-scene tape were…

Making Broad Street more stately

The idea for the Avenue of the States began as way to welcome visitors to South Philly for the Republican National Convention in 2000.

And, while the name hasn’t stuck like that of its neighbor to the north, the Avenue of the Arts, state flags…