Vinny Vella

More than 100,000 people nationwide, including 5,000 in the Philadelphia area, are waiting for organ donations, a reality that was unfamiliar to Vinny Vella — until he faced end-stage kidney failure.

Roger Hanks, drunk on beer and Irish whiskey, shot his wife during a heated argument and then turned the gun onto his 37-year-old daughter, investigators said.

“The papers are lying," Michelle Zajko wrote in a handwritten statement from a jail cell in Maryland. "I did not murder my parents.”

Zachary McCauley forced the girl to create an online dating profile and solicit sex with men, under threat of harming her mother, police say.

Mohammed Yesuf's parents confronted Samir Austin shortly before he was sentenced to decades in prison for Yesuf's murder.

Amy Cohen was suffering from a mental health crisis when she lit a fire at a 99-year-old woman's home in Lower Merion, her lawyer told a judge Wednesday.

Mamadou Kallie's trial on murder charges will begin Monday. Prosecutors say he executed Tiara Rodriguez-Diaz and Kimberly Ortiz-Zayas after they finally confronted him for his abusive behavior.

Stephen Kamnik secretly recorded coworkers and women he met on the job and used those images, along with mug shots and driver's license photos to create deepfake porn, authorities said.

From his Kensington home, Larry Williams operated a gun ring so efficient it bore similarities to a military group arming its soldiers, Montgomery County prosecutors said Thursday.

Deadly force was justified against Wyleek Tinsley, officials said, because officers heard screaming and a gunshot while responding to reports that he had shot at his girlfriend.

Andrew Jackson Ecker was the son of prominent local plumbing contractor and Pottstown Borough Authority official Aram Ecker.

Mamadou Kallie vehemently denied killing Kimberly Ortiz-Zayas and Tierra Rodriguez-Diaz, saying a masked gunmen had shot them. Prosecutors called his story ludicrous.

As Maurice Byrd Jr.'s murder trial began Monday, prosecutors said he goaded Steven Strassburg into a fight. But Byrd's attorneys say he was standing his ground against a violent attacker.

The boy's mother said in a letter to the judge that her family has forgiven Imani Lewis, and said they believe she "wanted to help and made an awful mistake."

Mark Wills coerced eight underage girls into sending him nude videos by pretending to be a teenage boy on social media, prosecutors said/.

William McGillan shot at two officers Sunday, and one returned his fire, authorities said. No one was injured in the chaotic encounter.

Chester County prosecutors said Friday that Jaki White-Marshall was part of conspiracy to attack a rival teen last fall in retaliation for a high school fight.

The victims were a father and his two sons, and were identified as Christopher Cramp, 56; David Cramp, 31; and Thomas Cramp, 24.

Lawyers for Maurice Byrd said during his trial this week that he shot Steven Strassburg in self-defense after Strassburg attacked him. Jurors cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Ramon Garcia pleaded guilty to charges related to spying and sexully assaulting more than a dozen women at Carbon Health urgent cares in Jenkintown and Dresher.