Barbara Laker

Roosevelt Poplar, who has led the Philly FOP since 2023, was elected to a three-year term on Tuesday, along with his entire slate.

The campaign has been marked by caustic social media attacks, fake accounts, AI-generated images, contentious union meetings, and even threats of violence.

The turf, laden with forever chemicals, now faces an uncertain future.

John Berkery, who used luck, wit and smarts to repeatedly escape the grips of law enforcement, has died at 91.

A gifted Chevy Tahoe and murky bookkeeping have put John McNesby and current president Roosevelt Poplar under fire — this time from the union's own members.

DA Larry Krasner is reviewing the murder conviction of Michael Gaynor, who witnesses said wasn’t in the tiny Philly corner store when the 5-year-old boy was gunned down in crossfire between two men.

The Inquirer determined that the wrong man was convicted in the 1988 murder case of 5-year-old Marcus Yates and now the boy's mother is working to free him.

Participants said they will only drink water until the administration meets with students to discuss their demands for disclosure, divestment and a “full academic and cultural boycott of Israel.”

At Philly's Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel synagogue, there was a heaviness in the air and a tone of urgency with a backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war and intense Pro-Palestinian protests at colleges.

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.) says the federal study is further proof that Congress must require firefighting equipment to be PFAS-free.

Three experts separately told The Inquirer that lab tests on turf that was recently installed at Murphy Recreation Center are “misleading.”

A stew of toxic chemicals lurks in artificial turf. Some experts worry they could be linked to cancer in young athletes.

Danish company Re-Match secured state incentives to open a recycling plant in 2022. It hasn’t happened yet. Meanwhile, thousands of rolls of the fake grass, containing PFAS, are piled up on farms.

Two proposed bills seek to address growing concern about the health risks posed by PFAS in equipment worn by firefighters.

Water-repellent “forever chemicals” known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) have been used in firefighters’ protective turnout gear for more than two decades.

Before his 2017 death from brain cancer, relatives and former teammates saw him lose a grip on reality. Now they suspect a link between six Phillies cancer deaths and “forever chemicals” in the turf.

Samples of old turf from Veterans Stadium contained PFAS, or so-called “forever chemicals,” according to an Inquirer investigation published earlier this month.

Some scientists are now sounding the alarm because artificial grass typically contains PFAS, nicknamed “forever chemicals.”

Charles H. Ramsey, former Philly police commissioner, who’s reviewing Temple’s police department, said nothing he found it “was doing or not doing” could have prevented Christopher Fitzgerald’s death.

Charges stem from a grand jury investigation that started after a 2018 Inquirer investigation examined how Witness leaders punished survivors after they reported abuse or sought help from police.