The couple evidently had a troubled and volatile relationship and, according to Montgomery County investigators, it ended in homicide. Officials on Friday said they had identified a suspect in the killing of Alicia Schmidt, 31, a mother of two, whose body was found Thursday morning at the bottom of the basement steps of her Pottstown home.

Detectives are investigating a report that a 21-year-old woman was sexually assaulted early Friday behind a Center City nightclub. About 1 a.m., the woman was at G Lounge, below Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse at 17th Street and Stock Exchange Place, police said.

The Philadelphia School District eliminated 91 school police jobs on Friday in a cost-cutting move that brings the total number of city schools without officers to 100.

Drexel University, in partnership with a Texas-based developer, has launched a $97 million student-housing and retail-development plan along Chestnut Street.

A top Harrisburg Republican said Friday that the legislature might consider moving back the April 24 primary election to make time for a commission to create new maps for all 203 state House seats and 50 Senate seats.

HARRISBURG - The jury in the corruption trial of State Rep. Bill DeWeese deliberated for a second full day Friday without reaching a verdict.

The Philadelphia Water Department plans to seek a 28.5 percent rate increase, starting in October and spreading across a little less than three years.

The couple evidently had a troubled and volatile relationship and, according to Montgomery County investigators, it ended in homicide.

Under a judge's lengthy questioning Friday, Parth Ingle, charged along with his mother in the bludgeoning and stabbing death of his father, repeatedly insisted that he didn't want to dump his lawyer.