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Kensington Voice

As Kensington narcotics arrests increase, residents wonder “who the hell is engaging them?”

As city officials announced Thursday that narcotics arrests in Kensington have more than doubled since March, residents at a Harrowgate community...
Portrait of Donnel Drinks
The Trace

Life in Poverty, Punctuated by Gun Violence

Philadelphia’s status as the nation’s poorest big city is a major cause of its gunfire. Read more. Photo by Caroline Gutman for The Trace
Movita Johnson-Harrell sitting in a chair in a white room with decorative flags above her
The Trace

The Intergenerational Fallout of Gun Violence

In Philadelphia, gunfire has taken grandfathers, brothers, cousins, and children. The losses reflect the institutional racism at the root of America’s...
Students leaving Frances E Willard Elementary School
Kensington Voice

Walking buses, a playground, a bullet-resistant fence: How Kensington schools are using opioid settlement funds

Kensington’s Willard Elementary School is getting its first playground. It’s also getting something less whimsical: a bullet-resistant fence. Both...
Officer Pat Heron in the driver's seat of his patrol car
Kensington Voice

Philly police, former Kensington cop sued over sex abuse, imprisonment of girls ages 9 and 11

Two women who were sexually abused as children by former Philadelphia police officer Patrick Heron are suing the Philadelphia Police Department...