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UPenn report finds Pa. schools need an additional $3.5 billion
A new report from the University of Pennsylvania finds that the state’s school districts need additional $3.5 billion to educate al ...
12 years ago
ListenObama gets the bill for White House Thanksgiving
There’s no free lunch — or breakfast or dinner — for President Barack Obama on Thanksgiving day. Or any other day for that matt ...
12 years ago
Health insurance sign-ups coming to shopping malls
The Obama administration says more than 462,000 people selected a health plan in the first week of 2015 enrollment through HealthCare.gov ...
12 years ago
How Pittsburgh gets around: walkability, bikeability, and public transit
One of the things cities are judged on is their get-around factor. So how’s Pittsburgh doing? One of the things cities ...
12 years ago
Hiker photographed bear before it killed him
A New Jersey hiker killed by a bear in September took a series of photos of the animal with his cellphone before it mauled him to death.< ...
12 years ago
Courts uphold death sentence in Pa. athlete murder
A man convicted of murdering a college lacrosse star from suburban Philadelphia in 1996 has lost a bid to avoid the death penalty. ...
12 years ago
NJ authorities foil murder-for-hire plot
New Jersey authorities say state police foiled a Pennsylvania woman’s plot to have her daughter’s ex-boyfriend and two other ...
12 years ago
Lawyer: Pa. man’s pipe bomb ‘inoperable’
The attorney for a central Pennsylvania man awaiting trial on charges he built a remote-controlled pipe bomb intended to blow up his wife ...
12 years ago
Indictment: South Jersey high school teacher had sexual relationship with girl
A music teacher at a southern New Jersey high school will now be suspended without pay after he was indicted on numerous charges stemming ...
12 years ago
PennDOT warns against travel on I-81 during storm
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is urging holiday drivers to avoid Interstate 81 as a storm that’s bringing up to a f ...
12 years ago
New push for modern rail tunnel under Hudson between NJ, NYC
At one of the busiest travel times of the year, New Jersey’s Senate leader Wednesday called for a new train tunnel connecting the G ...
12 years ago
Large turnout at weekly peace vigil in Mt. Airy following Michael Brown decision
Members and ministers of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration in Mt. Airy joined nearly 100 residents and community leade ...
12 years ago
Former N.J. acting-gov wants to put brakes on Thanksgiving shopping
More than two dozen malls and outlets in New Jersey will be open on Thanksgiving, some of them as early as 10 a.m. A state lawmaker ...
12 years ago
Food for thought: 1 in 8 Pennsylvanians struggle to find enough to eat
It’s the time of the year when food is on the mind. George Matysik was thinking of food—or, to be more specific, the lack ...
12 years ago
