Attorneys for the city said cooled storage for cadavers is getting crowded, and death investigators and technicians should ...

The District Council 33 strike increases the risk that bodies remain in homes and outdoors during hot summer days, conditions ...

More than two dozen Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office staffers were ordered back to work because of a growing backlog of ...

The city sought the order, saying the office was experiencing delays in picking up the bodies of the deceased.

So Parker left the police ranks and began volunteering at medical examiners' offices.

Medical examiners in districts of comparable size, population and workload average $533,000. ... "At the end of the day, I love it here and I felt my work justified the raise," said Aronica.