A suburban Philadelphia woman who pretended to have cancer as part of a fraud scheme is back behind bars after police say she threatened two people who testified against her.
Jurors have been excused for the day in the case of a former high-ranking Philadelphia police official accused of scheming to hire strong-arm collectors to shake down a former business partner in a failed real estate deal.
Residents in the Philadelphia's Germantown section are trying to weather the storm of urban blight in their neighborhoods. A number of abandoned properties in Germantown have become unsafe eyesores.