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SWAT gunman kills NJ man holding toddler hostage

A man holding his 13-month-old son hostage has been shot and killed by a member of the Monmouth County SWAT team after a standoff in Midd ...

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Weekly Entertainment Guide – Baskervilles, Beer & Broadway (Forbidden)

16 things to do this week in the Philly region.  Robin Bloom shares her picks. Onstage “The Hound ...

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 Steven Rose, the chairman of the New Jersey Presidents’ Council, makes his suggestions to the members of the College Affordability Study Commission at a Statehouse hearing.  (Phil Gregory/WHYY)

NJ panel studying college affordability gets some advice

A panel charged with reviewing ways to make a New Jersey college education more affordable got some advice from a group representing coll ...

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 Philadelphia School District headquarters. (NewsWorks, file)

Philly school employee charged with steering $1 million contract to friends and family

A former employee of the Philadelphia School District was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on charges of steering a nearly $1 million c ...

10 years ago

Hearing set on Wolf’s choice to lead Pa. State Police

The Pennsylvania Senate is planning a long-awaited hearing on Gov. Tom Wolf’s nominee to lead the State Police. The Law and ...

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 A demolition crew has begun to tear down the roof of a historic building at 6656-62 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy.  (Jana Shea/for Newsworks)

New mixed-use project on Germantown Avenue will bring influx of young renters to Mt. Airy

Mt. Airy’s Tourison’s Hall will soon be history.  The building at 6656-62 Germantown Ave., which last housed a di ...

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 Chemistry student Jorge Rodriguez Martinez holds a sample of billions of Anthrax bacteria at the National School of Biological Sciences in Mexico City, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Pentagon: Military mistakenly shipped live anthrax samples to labs in Del., NJ, 7 other states

The Pentagon inadvertently shipped live anthrax spores to as many as nine laboratories, including one in New Jersey and another in Delawa ...

10 years ago

 Jim Kenney, Philadelphia's likely next mayor, has been hearing from job seekers hoping for work with the city. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Philly’s likely next mayor already hearing from job seekers

The man who is expected to be the next mayor of Philadelphia is already receiving resumes from those who’d like a job with his admi ...

10 years ago

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 Dito van Reigersberg (left) and Mikéah Ernest Jennings in two of costume designer Machine Dazzle's many get-ups for them in Pig Iron Theatre Company's 'I Promised Myself to Live Faster.' (Photo courtesy of Bill Brymer)
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Review: ‘I Promised Myself to Live Faster’

A long, crawly thing made of floppy red tubes worms its way across the stage. (It’s hard to describe what Pig Iron Theatre Company& ...

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Rutgers hired to monitor jobs created with NJ tax incentives

Rutgers University is getting the job of analyzing how the tax incentives being used to attract and keep businesses in New Jersey are wor ...

10 years ago

 Daniel Simmons resigned his position in the AG's office after being arrested on charges of rape. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Former Delaware prosecutor disbarred after child rape

The Delaware Supreme Court has disbarred a former deputy attorney general who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy. The court issu ...

10 years ago

 Former Mayor Wilson Goode congratulated Jim Kenney on his mayoral-primary victory before Wednesday morning's event in City Hall. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)
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A mayoral cavalcade honors literacy ‘champion’ at City Hall ceremony

For several minutes on Wednesday morning, former mayors Wilson Goode and Ed Rendell, current mayor Michael Nutter and mayoral aspirant Ji ...

10 years ago

 Former Mayors Ed Rendell and Wilson Goode chat at City Hall. They offered Jim Kenney, expected to become the city's next mayor, some advice. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Former mayors have advice for Philly’s likely new leader

Two former Philadelphia mayors have sharply different opinions about how Jim Kenney should spend his summer.  Philadelphia ha ...

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 David Wildstein, the former director of interstate capital projects for the Port Authority who ordered the George Washington Bridge lane closures (William Thomas Cain/Getty)

MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki says Bridgegate’s David Wildstein was a great boss

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 Graduating students are shown throwing their mortarboards in the air on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in a 2012 ceremony. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

Philadelphia: brain drain no more

Philadelphia is doing a better job of retaining its college graduates than even Boston, long regarded as a college town with great succes ...

10 years ago

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