The first time Mike Martin held an AK-47 was after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, which claimed ...

The drop in homicides to 222 mirrors a national reduction in violence and follows years of sustained declines after ...

Philadelphia police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who was found unresponsive in an ...

The drop comes as more police agencies use technology to fight crime and more groups work with at-risk youths. Yet its cause ...

DA Larry Krasner and others attribute the drop to gun violence prevention efforts, grassroots violence-interruption work and supportive programs for young people.

Family members of Lex Street Massacre victims Calvin Helton and George "Jig" Porter were among those who commemorated their ...

The investigation into the killings of beloved director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner remains underway as new details begin to emerge. As their son, Nick Reiner, faces murder charges ...

This holiday season, Philadelphia gun-violence prevention groups want to create space for grieving children to heal. Their work takes place in schools and beyond.

David Fitzgerald knows how tough it is to prevent gun violence. In 15 years working in some of Baltimore’s deadliest neighborhoods for a program called Safe Streets, he said, he’s defused hundreds of ...

On this edition of Your Call’s Media roundtable, we're discussing how the Trump administration’s decision to terminate funding for violence prevention programs has affected communities such as ...