The Philadelphia Inquirer

HARRISBURG, Pa. — In his first visit to Pennsylvania of 2024, former President Donald Trump seized on a special counsel’s decision not to charge President Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents while Trump continues to contend with a pending criminal case. Before a crowd of thousands of supporters at the National Rifle Association gathering in Harrisburg, Trump contended he was the victim of unfair treatment. “Biden is not going to be charged,” Trump said. “If he’s not going to be charged, that’s up to them. But then I should not be charged.” He also took shots at Biden’s mental facult......

PHILADELPHIA — After hours of sifting through the charred remains of an East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, home on Thursday, investigators retrieved three sets of human remains and a rifle — the beginnings of their painstaking search for evidence as they worked to piece together what led a resident of the home to shoot two police officers before setting the house ablaze the day before. It was difficult, “gruesome” work, according to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer. And with frustration, he said that the full scope of what happened inside the ruined home on Wednesday afternoon ma......

PHILADELPHIA — Two police officers were shot Wednesday afternoon in East Lansdowne while responding to reports that an 11-year-old girl had been shot inside a home that later burst into flames. And later Wednesday, as investigators struggled to piece together what led to the shooting, they said that as many as eight members of the family that lived inside the home — children and adults — were unaccounted for. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said the home was still smoldering Wednesday night, preventing investigators from sifting through the ruins. He described the house as ......

PHILADELPHIA — Mütter Museum curator Anna N. Dhody opened a package Tuesday morning that arrived at the museum by mail. Inside was a glass jar containing two preserved fetuses, and a letter from someone claiming to be a retired physician who wanted to make a donation. “I saw the letter and was like, ‘Oh no, no no, I have to make a few calls,’” said Dhody, who promptly called the police. “This is not normal procedure.” The package was addressed to Dhody, but did not have a return address. The letter was scant and included no other details about the sender or the fetuses, Dhody said. Police are ......

A day before authorities say he decapitated his father and posted a graphic YouTube video calling for the execution of federal employees, Justin Mohn strode into a gun shop in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and legally purchased the 9mm handgun police say he used to carry out the killing. “There was nothing legally precluding him from purchasing that gun,” Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said during a Friday news conference. In the days before visiting Johnston’s Sporting Goods in Croydon, Mohn, 32, who was unemployed and lived with his parents, had surrendered his medical marijuan......