The Latest Breaking News from Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — By the fall of 2020, the pandemic’s first year, doctors treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients said they were starting to get the regimen down to a science. They learned when to put patients on ventilators, administer steroids, and deploy an expanding array of newer drugs.

Philadelphia prosecutors said Wednesday they do not plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the state’s use-of-force law for police — potentially clearing the way for former city officer Ryan Pownall to be tried for murder this fall.

Two people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured when a Megabus on its way to Philadelphia overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike Tuesday night.

PHILADELPHIA — Move over, Jerry Jones. Step aside, Carson Wentz. Make room, Ben Simmons. Keith Hernandez wants a spot on Philly’s Mount Rushmore of hate.

PHILADELPHIA — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman’s campaign on Wednesday launched an effort to attack his Republican opponent Mehmet Oz for promoting dubious medical treatments during his years as a celebrity physician on daytime television’s "The Dr. Oz Show."

PHILADELPHIA — Diniar “Melo” Camp was only supposed to be in Philadelphia for five days.

PHILADELPHIA — Sesame Place, facing ongoing backlash over recent viral videos of costumed characters at the park appearing to dismiss and ignore Black children, on Tuesday announced diversity and inclusion training for all employees and other measures to quell the withering criticism and make the amusement park more welcoming.

Keith Hernandez likes watching good fundamentals.

Double-decker was bound for Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper broke his left thumb in the fourth inning of a June 25 game in San Diego.

PHILADELPHIA — When Mehmet Oz bought a bucolic farmhouse in Montgomery County last year, he not only acquired property in the state where he’s running for Senate, he also scored a $50,000-a-year tax break.