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“Bucks County is not a county that needs or wants a detention facility,” the county’s lone Republican commissioner said.

Bishop Joseph Williams of the Diocese of Camden, covering southern New Jersey and its Philadelphia suburbs, announced the settlement Tuesday in a letter.

A federal judge on Monday ordered that an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia.

Subramanyam Vedam, 64, who spent 43 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned, was denied bail Tuesday while he fights deportation.

The network will offer hourly air quality index updates posted to a new website, Breathe Philly.

The colleges say blocking international enrollment would harm U.S. higher education and the economy.

Union organizers say the contract will transform their quality of life. Efforts to unionize graduate students started more than 20 years ago.

The Woodmere, Maguire and Berman museums each take on different aspects of the sculptor’s five-decade career.

A Department of the Interior spokesperson said they “disagreed” with the decision. Meanwhile, Mayor Cherelle Parker said she was “thrilled.”

Bill Stevenson and the future first lady divorced a half-century ago. Now he’s held on $2 million cash bail, accused of killing his wife of nearly 40 years.

The state’s decision not to ask the Supreme Court to step in ends a legal episode that lasted almost two years.

City Council members raised concerns that the proposed closures will disproportionately affect Black students.

Fellow civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said his mentor “was not simply a civil rights leader; he was a movement unto himself.”

Delaware usually falls near the bottom of national rankings because, unlike most states, almost all high school juniors take the test.

As the semiquincentennial nears, Philadelphia’s cultural institutions are examining the country’s founding through the lens of local Black history.