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Mayor signs executive order banning prison rape in Philadelphia
Philadelphia now officially has a “zero tolerance” policy about sexual assault in city prisons. Mayor Michael N ...
10 years ago
ListenMustaches outnumber women in U.S. medical leadership
Even though medical schools now graduate men and women in roughly equal numbers, it’s still relatively uncommon for females to asce ...
10 years ago
ListenFearing lost grant and jobs, Bucks County works to preserve biotech center
When Delaware Valley University and the Hepatitis B Foundation came together a decade ago to form the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, ...
10 years ago
Philly parents push state to intervene in four academically lacking schools
In what’s being celebrated as a major victory for parents, the Pennsylvania Department of Education has validated their claims of d ...
10 years ago
New Jersey pledges $2.5 million for police body cameras
The state of New Jersey is spending $2.5 million to equip local police departments with body cameras. Officials are calling it an effort ...
10 years ago
Eakin: Just male banter, keep me on the bench
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin tearfully apologized at a hearing in Easton Monday for trading offensive email in ...
10 years ago
Industrious Philly elves are cranking out the ‘Jawnaments’ [photos + video]
As the clock ticks down to Christmas, high-schoolers in West Philadelphia are busy producing their own spin on holiday décor they c ...
10 years ago
ListenFamilies moved from immigration detention centers in Texas to Pa., advocates say
Undocumented women and children are being moved from two detention centers in Texas to a facility in Leesport, Pennsylvania, according to ...
10 years ago
University of Delaware AD to step down
UD Athletic Director Eric Ziady will leave the job he’s held for about three years at the end of 2015. Ziady brought big cha ...
10 years ago
Train safety system installed along Northeast Corridor
Safety technology that can prevent crashes like a deadly passenger train derailment in May has been activated on Amtrak tracks between Ph ...
10 years ago
Dover police officer returns to work less than two weeks after not guilty verdict
A Dover police officer found not guilty of assault for kicking a suspect in the head in 2013 has returned to work. Cpl. Thomas Web ...
10 years ago
ACLU: Blacks far more likely than whites to be arrested
New Jersey’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter says a new study shows black people are far more likely than whites to be arres ...
10 years ago
Transit police probe confrontation between bus driver, woman
Transit police in Philadelphia are investigating an incident in which a bus driver was caught on video throwing liquid on a passenger and ...
10 years ago
Knott legal team reviews one juror’s eagerness to discuss trial
Editor’s note: Since publication, Duenas ...
10 years ago
ListenDelaware man charged in series of robberies
A Hockessin man is facing a string of charges connected to a series of business burglaries in northern Delaware this month. Police ...
10 years ago
