Controversy's brewing in Philadelphia, where a 17-year-old high school junior has been barred from attending her prom after her date backed out.

Amanda Dougherty spent almost $1,000 on a dress, shoes and tickets to the dance, which is set for Friday. But Archbishop John Carroll High School has told her not to come alone.

The mean streets of inner city Philadelphia are usually home to pick-up basketball games or touch football, and as night falls, drugs, crime and gang violence.

Now a groundbreaking scheme is bringing the ‘Kings Game’ to the slums with the surprise success of America’s first all-black polo team based in a barn in the heart of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, reported CNN.com.

Nadya "Octo-Mom" Suleman is so desperate for cash that the mother-of-14 has taken up pillow fighting, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

The 36-year-old has been plagued by eviction and foreclosure threats for missing payments on her Orange County, Calif. home so she's signed on to do an official Pillow Fight Tour.

According to an insider, Octo-Mom has already booked two fights and each time she steps in the ring, she nets $1,500.

Last time Octo-Mom entered a ring was in November for a Celebrity Fight Night boxing event in Hollywood against the “Long Island Lolita,” Amy Fisher.

A mentally challenged man who was found chained and starving in a Philadelphia basement in October has revealed that he considered the people who kept him there to be like family.

Edwin Sanabria, one of the four victims rescued from the Tacony, Pennsylvania home where they were held by suspect Linda Ann Weston, told the Philadelphia Municipal Court in a hearing on Monday that he had been traveling with the alleged kidnapper since 2001, reported Reuters.com.

Living on a diet of franks and beans, soup or oatmeal, the 31-year-old described the horror of "the hole" where he had been locked to a furnace by Weston and her accomplices, daughter Jean McIntosh, boyfriend Gregory Thomas, and Eddie Wright, which included having to use a bucket as a toilet.

And so it begins.

Two child sex abuse advocates, attorneys Jeff Anderson and Marci Hamilton, announced the first in what's expected to be a cavalcade of civil lawsuits in the Penn State molestation scandal during a news conference at Philadelphia's Omni Hotel Wednesday.

Accused pedophile/ former football defensive coach Jerry Sandusky, his charity The Second Mile, and Penn State University are all named in the suit, which will be filed in Philadelphia County Court of Common Please.

Anderson and Hamilton Wednesday read a statement on behalf of the plaintiff, who claims that beginning in 1992, he was molested more than 100 times by Sandusky at the coach's house, the Penn State football locker room and assorted spots throughout Philadelphia.

The woman suspected of masterminding the grisly Philadelphia dungeon where four mentally challenged adults were chained up in squalor and starved has been deemed competent to stand trial, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Linda Ann Weston was determined to be “partially mentally retarded” and showed signs of paranoia by the court on Wednesday, but not enough to prevent her from facing a jury for her string of abusive charges, reported FoxNews.com.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the sinister 51-year-old was arrested last month and charged with criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment after three men and a woman were found chained in a Tacony, Pennsylvania house.

The woman accused of being the evil ringleader who allegedly chained four mentally challenged adults locked in a Philadelphia dungeon will undergo a mental evaluation to decide whether she is competent to stand trial, RadarOnline.com has learned.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Linda Ann Weston was arrested last month and now faces a string of charges including criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment after three men and a woman were found chained in a Tacony, Pennsylvania house.

Municipal Judge Martha Neifeld agreed on Wednesday for a psychiatric assessment to be carried out in response to a request from the 51-year-old's attorney, George Yacoubian, based on the issues of mental retardation and low IQ, reported NBCPhiladelphia.com.

New details on what could be the youngest victim of the Philadelphia dungeon mastermind emerged on Monday, but investigators still don't know where the toddler, known as Little L, is, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Linda Ann Weston, the ringleader of the evil gang who kept four mentally challenged adults chained in a basement, claimed to be the mother of the little girl, and told a neighbor, Chevelle McGill that she could adopt her.

Little L lived for a few months with McGill in the Kensington area of the city, while she waited for Weston, 51, to complete adoption papers, reported the Philadelphia Daily News.

The ringleader responsible for chaining four mentally-challenged adults in a Philadelphia basement had previously had her children returned to her by social services despite a history of abuse and a horrific murder conviction, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Linda Ann Weston was paroled from prison after serving four years for the 1981 killing of a 25-year-old man who she hit with a hammer, locked in a closet and then starved to death -- she then walked into family court and demanded they give her children back, and the request was unbelievably granted.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Weston, 51, Eddie Wright, 49, and Thomas Gregory, 47, were arrested on Saturday and are facing a string of charges including criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment after three men and a woman were found chained in a Tacony, Pennsylvania house.

More horrors have emerged from the depths of the Philadelphia dungeon where four mentally-challenged adults were chained up -- as details of incest, prostitution and drug abuse surface, RadarOnline.com has learned.

The brothers and sisters of the alleged ringleader, Linda Ann Weston, revealed the torment that they endured at the hands of their sadistic older sibling on Thursday, ABCNews.com reported.

"She would force my younger brothers and sisters to have sex. She would have sex with my other brothers and sisters," one brother, who was too terrified of 51-year-old Weston to be named, told WPVI-TV.