Going for a big win

Thirteen-year-old A.J. Vagliani is lying in his hospital bed with the television remote hidden beneath him.

The Stella Maris catcher wants to watch SportsCenter on ESPN, but moments earlier, he promised his mom, Terry, that she could have the television for an hour of…

Man slain in house

Homicide investigators have no motive or suspects in the fatal shooting of a boarder inside a local rooming house, said Capt. Richard Ross.

Kenneth Johnson, 45, of the 1200 block of South 26th Street, was found dead from a gunshot blast to the head at about 1 a.m…

Handicap space becomes sore spot

As the mother of a severely disabled child, Lisa Cristinzio-Murphy makes frequent trips to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Nonambulatory with the mental capacity of a 2-month-old, her son Jamie, 8, is blind and has cerebral palsy…

Fighting fire with safety

The Philadelphia Fire Department has been conducting Youth Fire Safety Day Camps every summer in one form or another for the last two decades. But the program has taken on an even greater significance in the wake of the 13 child fatalities so far this year. Officials have decided to…

Honeymoon ends too soon

For many people, wedding season is a favorite time of year, a time to watch two people taking that final leap of faith into matrimony.

For best friends John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), wedding season means one thing: women, lots and lots of women.

So much to live for

Ever since Richard Johnson was a boy, he knew he wanted to be a lawyer.

After his acceptance to Saint Joseph’s Preparatory School in North Philly, he promised his mother that, when he became a successful attorney, he would return to Point Breeze and pay for another…

Drawing on old treasures

“Light, Line and Color: American Works on Paper (1765–2005)” is one of a yearlong series of special exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to celebrate the museum’s 200th anniversary. The stupendous show is the result of associate curator Robert Cozzolino’s rummages…

Nice line of work

Mike Iaconelli still finds it hard to believe that he is making a very nice living as a professional angler.

How nice a living?

Since joining the professional tour six years ago, the 33-year-old native of 23rd and Reed streets has pocketed more…

Pummeled at the pump

Sharon Rubbo rolls up to the Getty gas station and kindly asks the attendant to place $10 worth of fuel in her vehicle.

Her smile turns to a cringe as she takes note of another gasoline hike, knowing the money she’s about to fork over will not take her car far.