Commuters on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia had no choice but to reach for their camera phones when an injured hawk caused traffic jam for on Thursday morning.

The 8-week-old female red-tail hawk, which was found with a broken wing on the highway, required a rescue effort that contributed to delays of about 15 minutes.

According to AP reports, a team from Pennsylvania Game Commission rescued the bird at about 9:30 am and took it to the Webbed Foot Wildlife Clinic. The bird will be treated or euthanized, depending on the severity of its injury.

A Philadelphia Court Judge on Tuesday acquitted a 20-year-old Rittenhouse Square singer from all charges after a police officer arrested him for singing too loudly in the park.

"A Change Is Gonna Come" singer Anthony Riley was jailed for refusing to succumb to a police officer's demand that he stop singing too loudly and faced a three-month sentence for the March 27 incident.

A classical flutist who was arrested on disorderly conduct charges in March for playing his flute in an upscale downtown neighborhood has sued the city authorities for violating his civil rights. The charges against Felix Wilkins were dismissed in May when a judge agreed to his claims that he had the right to play music on a city street.

Wilkins was arrested March 28 as he was playing his pipe at the corner of a public street and an officer walked up to him and told him to stop playing the flute.

The Philadelphia Police Department is firing a 32-year-old officer who has now been proved guilty of ordering two women to put on a "sex show" in a jail cell in September, 2003.

Internal Affairs investigators found Norberto Cappas ordered the two women to kiss and touch each other and expose their breasts. The two had been in jail on suspicion of drug possession, but they had no drugs and weren't charged with a crime.

A Philadelphia man got an unpleasant surprise at his dining table when he found out something unusual in his plate full of green beans. Upon looking closely, Earl Hartman said he was shocked to discover the inch-long head on his plate Wednesday night, resting between a chicken breast and buttered noodles.

WCAU-TV quotes Hartman as saying, "When I sat down, I noticed something didn't look right. It didn't look like a green bean."