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N.J. arbitrator says the district was aware Joseph DeShan impregnated a 16-year-old and can’t fire him for conduct from before he was a public employee.

Ending the police department’s use of "stop and frisk" would be a “road to disaster,” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross says.

In a now-deleted tweet, Friel Otten responded that “The Nazis were just doing their jobs too,” and linked a PBS article on coercion by people in power.

More and more Americans are working well past retirement age. For some, it’s a matter of necessity. For others, it’s a matter of choice. And the distinction is class-based.

The overwhelming feeling of how much help is needed can cause distress in those who respond to emergencies like overdoses.

When the School Reform Commission went against neighborhood desires and closed Fairhill along with 21 other schools in 2013, officials promised to sell the buildings.

Philadelphia’s Chinese Lantern Festival will once again illuminate the night, Valerie June’s Astral Plane Tour stops in Ardmore, and “Fences” makes for good drama this weekend

SEPTA is mulling the elimination of its $1 transfer fee for switching transit lines.

Host Nancy Solomon and Gov. Phil Murphy took phone calls and social media questions in the WBGO studio in Newark, New Jersey.

Pennsylvania rallies staged as part of International Workers’ Day call for raising the minimum wage and supporting immigrant communities.

Philadelphia City Commissioners chairwoman Lisa Deeley quietly surrendered her notary license last summer. It could impact her re-election bid.

New Jersey is hopeful that the White House’s $2 trillion infrastructure spending spree will help fix its transportation problems.

The building will be designed by ISA Architects, a firm with a history of success on odd lots such as the narrow Chinatown lot.

Pa. is getting closer to legal recreational marijuana but policymakers still face tough questions about what this potentially multi-billion-dollar industry would look like.

The merit selection concept has been around for years but this version added a provision in which judges are picked from three legislatively-drawn judicial districts.