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Cutting salt could save your life, reminds Philadelphia health initiative

A new campaign at the Philadelphia Health Department is urging people to grab the salt shaker less often and rethink their diet.  ...

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Uber adds paratransit vehicles to service in Philly

The online car service Uber is adding wheelchair-accessible vehicles to its fleet. The move by Uber, a car service that riders hai ...

12 years ago

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 The Schuylkil Expressway's overpass at the end of Waverly Rd. The superstructure was inspected and rated at 4, Structurally Deficient. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)
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Hundreds of Pa. bridges getting replaced, 9 in Philly region

Next year, the Pennsylvania State Department of Transportation will embark on four year mission to replace 558 structurally deficient bri ...

12 years ago

 Participants at the Keystone Crossroads forum at WITF were asked to discuss issues facing Pennsylvania cities in breakout listening groups.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Passionate discussion on potential of Harrisburg and other Pa. cites at Keystone Crossroads forum

We had a great turnout last night at the Keystone Crossroads public forum at WITF in Harrisburg. Educators, public officials, comm ...

12 years ago

Happy Hollow fundraiser celebrates ongoing Kelly Green Project efforts

Friends and neighbors in southwest Germantown gathered at the historic Happy Hollow playground Sunday evening for a “Dinner Under t ...

12 years ago

No GPS devices for sex crimes before 2007, court rules

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that the state can’t force sex offenders convicted before a GPS monitoring program was signe ...

12 years ago

Girl, 15, killed outside hospital identified

Authorities have released the name of a teenage girl shot and killed outside of a Philadelphia hospital minutes after a disturbance at a ...

12 years ago

Man found dead after nearly 12-hour SWAT standoff in West Deptford

Authorities in southern New Jersey say that a 24-year-old man was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot when a SWAT team entered the hom ...

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Community group scrambles to file charter-school application for GHS property

A grassroots group in Northwest Philadelphia wants to transform Germantown High School into an independent charter school serving neighbo ...

12 years ago

 Saul Alinsky a community organizer, in his Chicago office, Sept. 1968, (left) and Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York, Sept. 22, 2014 (Larry Stoddard and Mark Lennihan/AP Photos)
National Interest

The Hillary haters’ anthem: “Better call Saul”

Perhaps the shrinks can explain, in clinical terms, why right-wingers are so obsessed about long-dead community organizer Saul Alinsky. B ...

12 years ago

Manayunk bookstore hosts inaugural ‘Authors Brunch’ at Pretzel Park

Just after 11 a.m. Saturday, Jenn McCreary stood before the Pretzel Park microphone and began reading from her latest collection, “ ...

12 years ago

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12 students suspended after brawl at MLK High [video]

Twelve students from Martin Luther King High School were suspended for three to 10 days ...

12 years ago

 Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, left, and Democrat Tom Wolf shake hands at the end of a gubernatorial debate hosted by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry Sept. 22 in Hershey. The tow will meet again Wednesday for the second of three planned debates.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Corbett shows spunk in debate, perhaps too late

The stakes were high for Republican Governor Tom Corbett going into his first debate with Tom Wolf, his Democratic challenger. An ...

12 years ago

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Muted controversy follows unaccompanied minors to Pennsylvania

While they’re no longer the top story on CNN, the federal government is still processing large numbers of Central American children ...

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N.J. Senate approves bill that could bring more charter schools to Camden

New Jersey state Senate Democrats yesterday backed Gov. Chris Christie’s revisions to a controversial bill to extend the Urban Hope ...

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