The City of Philadelphia is the first in the country to issue guidelines to doctors who prescribe opioids for patients after surgery. City leaders say doctors need to join them on the front lines as they aim to reduce the deadly addiction epidemic.

"I join the district attorney and others here on calling retailers to remove these realistic toys from their shelves today. Our administration continues to be focused on the larger issue of gun violence in Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia narcotics officer who fatally shot a suspect during a confrontation in Tacony in August - an action the Attorney General's Office declared this month was justified under the law - shot and wounded another man under similar circumstances in 2012, according to department records. The documents also say that the officer, Richard Nicoletti, a 29-year veteran of the force, had four prior "firearm discharge incidents" before the 2012 shooting.

Philadelphia native and same-sex marriage pioneer Edith "Edie" Windsor has already left a mark on the nation's history by toppling the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 , but this winter, her story will be part of a much boozier legacy. In a trailer for the upcoming season of Comedy Central's "Drunk History," actresses Alison Brie and Sugar Lyn Beard play Windsor and her wife, Thea Spyer, retelling a liquored-up version of the couple's fight for LGBTQ rights, and Windsor's subsequent Supreme Court victory in the fight for marriage equality.

David Desper , was recently sentenced to up to 40 years in prison in the road-rage shooting death of 18-year-old Bianca Roberson last year in suburban Philadelphia. The prison sentence was harsh: Up to 40 years on third-degree murder for pointing a Smith & Wesson out the window of a truck and killing an 18-year-old woman who was behind the wheel of a Chevy Malibu.

The audience rose as the black-robed scholars proceeded down the center aisle of the cavernous auditorium adorned with large paintings of European monarchs from centuries past. The occasion was a formal lecture at the University of Oxford about Merze Tate, the first African American woman to attend the school, in 1932.