A group of teenagers has been charged in a string of violent attacks on residents returning home from work in Upper Darby, Penn., during an alleged three-night crime spree.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 (UPI) — Juan Uribe hit a pair of sacrifice fly RBI Saturday, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 2-0 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Shooting in North Philadelphia

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1 (UPI) — Cliff Lee made a spectacular Philadelphia debut Friday, throwing a four-hit complete game in the Phillies’ 5-1 win over San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 (UPI) — Eugenio Velez and Pablo Sandoval both drove in two runs in the fourth Thursday and San Francisco took advantage of three errors to whip Philadelphia 7-2.

ON DECK: PHILADELPHIASite: AT&T Park.About the Phillies: Philadelphia bolstered its playoff drive by trading for left-hander Cliff Lee, the 2008 American League Cy Young Award winner.

With just 36,000 people, Pennsauken holds a tiny fraction of Philadelphia’s population.
But the township across the Delaware from the nation’s sixth-largest city is not without urban problems of its own.

PHOENIX, July 29 (UPI) — Cole Hamels struck out nine batters in eight innings Tuesday to get the win in Philadelphia’s 4-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

PHOENIX, July 28 (UPI) — Jamie Moyer went six-plus shutout innings and Ryan Howard hit a two-run home run Monday to lead the Philadelphia Phillies past Arizona 6-2.

Clutching their coffee cups like talismans - as if a hot cup of coffee might bring them luck, or at least a day’s work - the stevedores who unload the region’s commerce from cargo ships on the Delaware River amble into their union’s no-frills hiring hall in the shadow of the Walt Whitman Bridge.