Read the full crime report from the Sept. 2 issue.

Read the full crime report from the Aug. 26 issue.

An 18-year-old male was shot in the back near the 1700 block of North Broad Street Tuesday following his high school’s graduation ceremony.

Temple tested TU-Alert, its emergency alert system, on Friday, May 9. Students who have registered with the system received a text message, phone call and e-mail explaining that the message was only a test.
On Tuesday, May 13, shots were fired at 15th and Norris streets. No one got a TU-Alert message.
The shooting occurred around 11:30 [...]

A 19-year-old non-Temple female was shot in the chest late Tuesday night at 15th and Norris streets.

A young man died of multiple gunshot wounds after a shooting on the 2000 block of Norris Street, blocks from Main Campus, early Sunday evening.
A spokesperson from the Philadelphia Police Department Public Affairs Division said police responded to a radio call of gunshots at approximately 6:02 p.m.
When they arrived on the scene, they found the [...]

Dec. 20 - Neil Gardner, the leading suspect in a murder that happened at 11th and Norris Streets on Nov. 29, was in court yesterday.
A warrant was issued on Dec. 8 charging Gardner, 30, principally with the murder of Raheen Taylor, in addition to a host of related weapons crimes. He surrendered to homicide detectives [...]

Reality struck again Thursday evening.
And it struck hard.
With all of the fancy bells and whistles Temple has added to campus in recent year, it’s almost too easy for students to forget that this is still North Philadelphia.
But Thursday night’s assault was a devastating reminder of what can happen if you fall into a complacent mind [...]

When Philadelphia is down, the kicking begins.
It kills me to see my beloved hometown be the subject of so much negative coverage and ridicule over our high murder rate. I’m betting that New Yorkers are glowing about the fact that their city’s murder rate is lower than ours. When it comes to sports, Philadelphia has [...]