A man holding a rifle was shot by police on a street in the Point Breeze section of Philadelphia on Wednesday.  The incident started around 11 a.m. when two deputy sheriffs and an employee of the Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I) went to a home on the 1900 block of Morris Street to inspect the property.

Officers confronted the man on the 1600 block of Moore Street after he was seen walking with a rifle. The man is hospitalized in critical condition; no officers were injured.

A male suspect was wounded in a police-involved shooting on Wednesday morning in the Point Breeze section of Philadelphia.

A woman died after she was struck and killed by a U-Haul truck in Philadelphia Kensington neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

A woman is dead after being run down by a rented U-Haul truck in Kensington Tuesday evening. Two people are now in custody in what Philadelphia Police are calling a preventable death. PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating a deadly crash that occurred in Kensington Tuesday.

A woman walking down the street in Philadelphia’s Kensington section was fatally struck by a U-Haul truck after the driver “lost control” and jumped a curb on Tuesday afternoon, Chief Inspector Scott Small said.