Myra Maxwell News Today

As Philadelphia marks National Crime Victims Rights Week with a series of events, the city’s gun violence shows no signs of abating.

Krasner suggested a substantial increase in forensics funding would result in more arrests and convictions.

TikTok, the omnipresent video-based social-media app that launched five years ago, has...

The West/Southwest Collaborative Response to Gun Violence seeks to address violent crime in Philadelphia by housing several government, grassroots and academic groups in the same space. It seeks to enhance communication between the organizations and improve resource distribution.

WHYY By Myra Maxwell (right) is the Director of the Philadelphia CARES Unit in the District Attorneys Office. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has received a $1.2 million grant to continue helping families of homicide victims through its CARES program, a real-time, rapid-response initiative launched in October 2018. The program, funded by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, offers families grief counseling, helps to make funeral arrangement...