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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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ListenNJ 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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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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ListenReview: ‘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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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ListenPhiladelphia: 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 ...
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