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Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, mixed into fentanyl has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for life-threatening withdrawal. It is spreading to other cities. Joseph is newly in ...

Two New Kensington men have been added to the list of people indicted in a Department of Justice investigation of an alleged cocaine trafficking organization in Western Pennsylvania. Andres ...

The Market-Frankford Line in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, May 9, 2024, a day after city officials orchestrated a sweep of encampments in the area. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly ...

Philadelphia will begin to enforce new rules and restrictions on mobile service providers in Kensington this week, according to city notices. As of Dec. 1, all mobile units operating in District 7 ...

Two people died after they were shot in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon, police said. The male and female victims were shot around 1:15 p.m. on the 3400 block of Hartville ...

Dominic Cipriano couldn't stop shaking. A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. And when he entered withdrawal, he started rocking from side to ...

A monthslong investigation targeting the movement of fentanyl between Kensington and the Philadelphia suburbs led to 94 arrests and the seizure of $365,000 in narcotics since September, the ...

FBI Director Kash Patel has called the takedown “how you safeguard American cities” in response to a sweeping federal operation targeting a long-standing open-air drug market in the Kensington area of ...

Dozens of members of a major drug trafficking organization were apprehended and charged in Philadelphia on Friday in what the FBI is calling a “historic” indictment. The charges come after a multiyear ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than two dozen people have been indicted on drug-related charges as part of a yearslong investigation into a gang in Philadelphia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...