Fire claims another child

Meandering and sniffing at piles of charred rubble outside a fire-ravaged Point Breeze rowhome, a small white cat looked lost and hungry.

Neighbors said the feline, with tan and gray patches, belonged to the family next door whose home was the scene of a…

Bullets fly in Navy Yard

The second time Joseph Canuso trespassed into the Naval Business Center on Sunday he was injured and arrested following a shootout with police.

The first time — Christmas Eve of last year — he vandalized a building with a sledgehammer, but was not arrested…

Slaying puzzles police, family

Inside her home on the 2500 block of South Colorado Street, Julie Kerwood snuggles her daughter, Sienna, a 4-month-old with bright blue eyes and curly brown hair.

The baby, wrapped in a pink sleeper, smiles and looks around in wide-eyed wonder. She…

A plea for protection

Mary Lawton was asleep the April night her 17-year-old nephew was shot. The teen, whom Lawton has custody of, was with friends outside Lawton’s home on the 2300 block of Bailey Terrace in the Wilson Park housing development when he took a bullet to the leg.

Golf: Not just fore boys

The Philadelphia Catholic League doesn’t offer girls’ golf as a sport, but Alex Machin loves the game so much she decided to join the boys. The 15-year-old just completed her sophomore season as the lone female on the Ss. John Neumann-Maria Goretti golf team.

Helping father know best

One day in the late 1990s, Everett Hurtt decided to attend a Focus on Fathers workshop at Hawthorne Cultural Arts Center to enhance his parenting skills. During the daylong event at 12th and Carpenter streets, the 39-year-old dad of three was very forthcoming and even provided helpful…

Bouncer nabbed in attack on patron

A 22-year-old Warminster man was critically injured after a bouncer allegedly threw him from the balcony of a South Street bar during a Memorial Day scuffle, police said.

Together at last

One day Debbie Savigliano was chatting on the phone with her cousin, Vanessa, who lives in West Philly. The two asked each other what they would do if they won the lottery.

Savigliano, a former South Philly resident who now lives in Boynton Beach, Fla., said the first…

Class farewell

It was an institution that produced the Golden Boys: Frankie Avalon, Fabian Forte and Bobby Rydell.

And throughout the hallways and classrooms of George C. Thomas Middle School, Ninth and Johnston streets, thousands of others have had their own golden moments.

Developmental roadblocks

Development in South Philly continues to surge with a force rivaling a fastball at a Phillies game.

Contributing to this boom is 27-year-old David Killian, a developer who is planning to construct two local housing complexes this year.