The defendant pleaded guilty early this month, just weeks before his trial was to start, in a deal to avoid the death penalty.

David Dickson served 33 years for the murder of Deborah Wilson, based on false testimony from a notorious jailhouse informant. The prosecutor agreed the conviction was tainted.

Bernadette Gaudio described the harrowing encounter she had in December with two armed burglars who wounded her and killed her youngest son, Andrew.

Michael Vahey was speeding when he rammed into Barbara Friedes, a 30-year-old pediatric resident at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who was biking near Rittenhouse Square.

The boy's mother brought her child to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.