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Archives: Articles

Court pulls plug on N.J.’s plan to stabilize natural gas prices

Yet again, a court has struck down New Jersey’s efforts to develop new natural-gas power plants in the state — a strategy rel ...

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MLK Cougars football defeats Lincoln 39-0 for first win of 2014 season

Ed Dunn, head coach of the Martin Luther King High Cougars football team, said it’s no fun being a “winless football team. ...

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Wilmington police investigate hit and run

Wilmington police are investigating a hit and run that left two teens in critical condition. According to police, the teens were r ...

12 years ago

Trial to open in 2012 slaying of baby, grandmother

Jury selection is scheduled Tuesday in the trial of a suburban Philadelphia man accused of having killed a baby and her grandmother in a ...

12 years ago

Politics & Policy

Pelosi, Christie to attend ribbon-cutting ceremony at prisoner re-entry center

Drug addiction is drawing Gov. Chris Christie, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and former Govs. Jim McGreevey and Tom Kean together. ...

12 years ago

 Miss New York Kira Kazantsev poses for photographers during a news conference after she was crowned Miss America 2015 during the Miss America 2015 pageant, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)

New Miss America: Red cup talent was from movie

The new Miss America won her crown after singing a Pharrell Williams song while playing with a red plastic cup, a performance she says wa ...

12 years ago

Newborn dies after pregnant woman shot to death

Authorities in Philadelphia say a newborn baby of a pregnant woman killed by gunfire in northeast Philadelphia over the weekend has also ...

12 years ago

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National Interest

This is for Tony Auth

Nora Ephron once wrote that “death is a sniper.” Too true. And it’s never more ruthless than when it picks off our very ...

12 years ago

 Don Murphy sitting in his shop in 2013. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

After 60 years, a barber’s scissors go silent in Mt. Airy

For 60 years Don Murphy cut hair at 7149 Germantown Avenue in Mt. Airy, but a fatal car accident silenced the barber’s scissors las ...

12 years ago

 A member of the Minneapolis police department walks past a photo of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson before the start of the Vikings/Patriots on Sunday. Peterson was indicted in Texas on Friday for using a branch to spank one of his sons. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
The Philadelphia Experiment

On Adrian Peterson, spanking, fatherhood and more

I have used corporal punishment, but when I did so, I never wanted to see fear in my children’s eyes. Nor did I want to see appreh ...

12 years ago

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 Waiters serve patrons dining in an outdoor cafe in one of Buenos Aires' swanky neighborhoods, Recoleta. Although malnutrition is rampant in the heartland and in the vast rustbelt ringing Buenos Aires, the good life goes on for part of Argentine society. (AP file Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Keystone Crossroads

Todd Erdley on outdoor seating, big box stores, and the Silicon Valley

“Five Questions with …” is a regular Keystone Crossroads feature where we seek to glean wisdom and ideas from some ...

12 years ago

 Doctor Kwaku Ohene-Frempong is an attending hematologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Director Emeritus, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. He has treated pediatric sickle cell disease for 40 years. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)

Too many people with sickle cell disease face ignorance, lack of support from medical community

It was difficult to listen to the sickle cell disease segment. Both my siblings have sickle cell [disease], and I’ve spent my life ...

12 years ago

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When Philly pot law is relaxed, Ramsey vows police will ticket — not arrest — offenders

Pot could be decriminalized in Phi ...

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Down the Shore

Fireball streaked across mid-Atlantic sky Sunday evening, witnesses say

If you saw a bright object race across sky around 11 p.m. Sunday, you’re not alone. Social media exploded with reports of a ...

12 years ago

Down the Shore

JSHN contributors capture Sunday’s spectacular sunset

JSHN contributors were snapping away during Sunday’s sunset. < ...

12 years ago

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