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Starting bids cut for Philly taxi medallions
The Philadelphia Parking Authority’s plan to auction 45 new wheelchair-accessible taxi medallions has hit a snag. The starti ...
12 years ago
NJ lawmakers delay vote on election spending limits
New Jersey lawmakers have postponed a vote on a resolution intended to amend the U.S. Constitution in a bid to rein in the influence of m ...
12 years ago
Death penalty sought in 2012 soccer tournament murders
“Let the punishment fit the crimes.” That’s what Deputy Attorney General Ipek Medford told a group of jurors on Monday as they deci ...
12 years ago
From ‘mashing’ to street harassment women still face lewd comments
A hundred years ago, men who made lewd comments to female passersby were known as “mashers.” In 1913, an Omaha judge drew ...
12 years ago
ListenStaffers push to unionize at Pa. School for the Deaf
Lamenting a recent string of unilateral decisions by management, teachers and support staff at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf filed ...
12 years ago
Reward upped to $25,000 for information on missing Roxborough man
As the search for 21-year-old Shane Montgomery entered its fifth day, the reward for information leading police to his whereabouts was ra ...
12 years ago
Race-based assumptions collide but do not combust on a Philadelphia porch
Race matters. It shapes our stories — innocuous ones that unfold on front porches, harrowin ...
12 years ago
Inside Delaware Amazon facility on Cyber Monday [gallery]
It’s the busiest day of the year for hundreds of workers at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Middletown, Delaware on Cyber Mond ...
12 years ago
ListenShore woman’s honesty over found iPad touches social media
Right on cue for the season of giving, a Bayville woman’s honest act of searching for the owner of an iPad that she had recent ...
12 years ago
Authorities continue search for missing student
Volunteers in Philadelphia are set to hit the streets again to search for a missing college student as authorities continue to investigat ...
12 years ago
Arson task force investigates alleged firebombing in Germantown
If not for a smoke-stained door, an American Red Cross van across the street and worries about gasoline on the sidewalk and curbline, it& ...
12 years ago
After twice vetoing bills requiring private employers in Philadelphia to give their workers paid sick leave, Mayor Nutter says he’s ...
12 years ago
Police searching for suspect who fired at officers
Police say they’re searching for a suspect who fired gunshots at officers in suburban Philadelphia. No one was wounded in th ...
12 years ago
Relatively quiet Atlantic hurricane season ends
The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season ended as a relatively quiet period as predicted, forecasters said. The season, which runs from ...
12 years ago
MIT engineers have high hopes for cheetah robot
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created the first battery-powered robot that can run up to 10 mph, jump ove ...
12 years ago


