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PHILADELPHIA (CBS)--The El screeching across the tracks. Music blaring from nearby businesses. The bus dropping off passengers at an intersection. They're the sights and sounds of Kensington. But ...
In Kensington, Philadelphia's open-air drug market, users can be seen passed out on the pavement or injecting themselves with needles on a main street.
Philadelphia clears out homeless encampments in Kensington, but some say more needs to be done 04:48. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - As Philadelphia outreach workers and police removed tents, needles and ...
PHILADELPHIA — Kensington has for years been a haven where addicts could freely shoot heroin. ... needles, guns, drug addicts, fights, disrespect, no hospitality, no nothing." ...
KENSINGTON (WPVI) -- Kids are out for the summer, but there's a group in the Kensington section of Philadelphia that says their streets are hardly safe for the little ones to play. To prove that ...
Sharps deposit boxes are Philadelphia’s newest tool in its four-week-old recovery campaign for opioid-plagued Kensington. Last week, the Philadelphia Public Health Department installed seven of the ...
The Defender Association of Philadelphia is condemning the city's police sweeps in Kensington, calling them ineffective and ...
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy visited Kensington, a northeast Philadelphia neighborhood, last month and saw firsthand the country’s depraved reality.
Used needles are scattered along the main street in Kensington, Philadelphia. Stephen Yang Kensington's streets are lined with homeless people and many drug users in various states of disarray.
I grew up in Kensington, Philadelphia. Let's not glamorize addiction — again : Shots - Health News A young poet and writer who lost his father to opioid addiction says there's nothing cool about ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A patient stabbed multiple people with a hypodermic needle at a hospital in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon, police say. A male patient was being ...