In supporting a local restaurant facing a drastic dip in business, a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist suggested the establishment's original name, "Ch*nk's," was not racist in nature.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The city building inspector who checked a Philadelphia building before it collapsed last week, killing six people, has died of an apparent suicide, local media reported.
A group of investors has agreed to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and related media assets for $55 million -- less than half the price paid at a 2010 bankruptcy auction.
A white police officer in Philadelphia was fired this week after confessing that he shot himself in the shoulder last month and blamed the shooting on a black assailant.
