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Jack Tomczuk

Jack Tomczuk

Jack Tomczuk is a proud lifelong resident of Northeast Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University in 2016, majoring in journalism. Jack joined Metro as a news reporter in 2020. He previously wrote for the Northeast Times, The Sun newspapers in Burlington and Camden counties and the Press of Atlantic City. Jack resides in the Lawndale neighborhood with his wife and two children.

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A federal judge directed the Trump administration to restore the slavery exhibit at the President’s House by 5 p.m. Friday.

Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration has spent $59 million on winter storm response efforts since more than 9 inches of snow and ice fell Jan. 25 in Philadelphia.

City Council on Tuesday signaled that they are willing to hold up education funding over the School District of Philadelphia’s plan to close 20 schools as part of a broader facilities proposal.

The Philadelphia Parking Authority on Tuesday will turn on speed cameras set up in five school zones.

A federal judge, siding with attorneys from Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration, ordered the National Parker Service to restore the slavery exhibit at the President’s House.

Gov. Josh Shapiro believes “housing prices and rent are too damn high for too many” in Pennsylvania.

In its fight to restore the President’s House exhibit, the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition’s strategy is to “raise hell in the streets and raise issues in the courts,” the group’s leader, attorney Michael Coard, said.

Authorities have arrested a woman for allegedly using a stun gun while robbing a 66-year-old woman last month at a SEPTA bus stop in Oxford Circle.

An off-duty deputy sheriff and a member of his family shot a teenager who was allegedly trying to steal the officer’s car early Tuesday morning in Southwest Philadelphia, police said.

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s spending plan would increase state funding for Philadelphia’s public schools by $151 million, but district leaders still anticipate having to make cuts to close a growing budget deficit.

Authorities said a 29-year-old man was seriously injured after he was shot inside a Fairhill bar early Monday morning, hours after the Super Bowl ended.

Homicide detectives are investigating after a man was fatally shot Saturday evening at a North Philadelphia park.

The family of a Cambodian American man who died last month in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody is demanding that federal officials release more information about the hours he spent behind bars.

Officers tracked down a driver after he allegedly struck a pedestrian and fled the scene Wednesday evening in Wissinoming, police said.

The owner of a towing business is wanted in connection with a pair of recent drive-by shootings in Northeast Philadelphia that left two tow truck drivers dead and a woman injured, police said.

Investigators released surveillance video and images Wednesday in an attempt to catch a man who shot an employee of a Bridesburg storage facility during a robbery earlier this week.

Ten days after a winter storm dumped significant amounts of snow and ice on Philadelphia, Mayor Cherelle Parker acknowledged that many streets and sidewalks remain unpassable or difficult to navigate.

The relationship between Sheriff Rochelle Bilal and a group called No ICE Philly appeared to be thawing – at least a little bit – as immigrant advocates rallied outside her office Tuesday.

Authorities say an employee of a Bridesburg storage facility was seriously injured when he was shot during a robbery Monday night.

A man was killed and two others were injured in a pair of shootings that occurred mere hours apart Monday night and early Tuesday morning in Frankford, police said.

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