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Lt. Gov. Austin Davis told the gathering that the administration still considers combatting gun violence a top issue.

Just hours after the House passed the bill, the Senate approved a motion to pass the bill with unanimous consent once the House bill is sent to the Senate.

Mayor Parker says the old contracting and procurement policies violate court rulings. The city rewrote them into small business preferences instead of aspirational guidelines.

National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in government funding to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settl

It has spent most of this year at the Port of Mobile in Alabama, being scoured to remove chemicals, wiring, plastic and glass.

Officials said the fire broke out around 1 a.m. on Tuesday in the 3400 block of Hope Street, and that a 45-year-old woman, a 6-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy died.

The Sackler family must contribute up to $7 billion over 15 years. Most of the money is to go to government entities to fight the opioid crisis.

President Donald Trump has bowed to the growing momentum behind the bill and even said he will sign it if it also passes the Senate.

Opera Philadelphia and WHYY will present a holiday concert in the Wanamaker Building Dec. 2, to be broadcast on TV12 on Dec. 23.

Thomas Jefferson University asked one of its customer service employees to write an alma mater.

The shopping district has struggled for decades. Now its future is back in the spotlight.

The executive order calls for scholarships, especially at faith-based institutions such as Villanova University. But experts say what foster youth need the most is guidance.

Eight people were killed and 20 were hurt after the plane, operated by the Mexican company Med Jets, crashed in Northeast Philly in January.

Parent company Tower Health will lay off 131 people at Pottstown Hospital by January and close the facility’s ICU, cancer center and endoscopy suite.

Delaware and Maryland state lawmakers say ratepayers should not pick up the tab for energy-hungry data centers.