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Moody’s downgrades Pa. debt rating

New York-based credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service is slapping a lower rating on Pennsylvania’s debt for the seco ...

12 years ago

A literary celebration for kids in Mt. Airy [gallery]

After finishing up their set of rehearsed music, the musicians of Broadway Rox Philly crowded around the music sheet to sing from a book ...

12 years ago

 Playwright Christopher Durang as Vanya and Marilu Henner as Masha in Durang's
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Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ and the playwright, too

Bucks County Playhouse is doing “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” just the way it should be done: as a whole-hearted goof ...

12 years ago

 A whale breached off Harvey Cedars around noon Monday. (Photo courtesy of the Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol)
Down the Shore

Breaching whale dazzles Harvey Cedars beachgoers, lifeguards Monday

Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol lifeguard Jonathan Bacci was ready. As he was sitting o ...

12 years ago

Dispatcher pleads guilty in Philly tow truck scheme

A former civilian radio dispatcher for Philadelphia police is pleading guilty to federal bribery charges and said she took money to help ...

12 years ago

Handymen suspected in slaying of Philly couple

Authorities in Philadelphia say a retired couple were strangled by two men hired to do household chores after the wife caught one trying ...

12 years ago

Seismic testing is used to locate underwater gas and oil deposits.

U.S. to allow off-shore seismic testing for parts of the East Coast

The Obama administration has announced it will allow off-shore seismic testing to begin from the Delaware River Bay to Florida. Seismic t ...

12 years ago

Questions still circling Philadelphia counciman’s charity

Questions continue to surround a a charity run organized by a Philadelphia councilman. Councilman Kenyatta Johnson said while ...

12 years ago

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 The First Baptist Church of Paschall on Woodland Avenue will host a concert to benefit the victims of the Gesner Street fire that killed four children.

Gospel concert will benefit families of Gesner St. fire in southwest Philadelphia

A gospel concert tonight will raise money for victims of the southwest Philadelphia fire that killed four children two weeks ago. ...

12 years ago

 There's a 50 percent that a tropical disturbance located between the Cape Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles will form within 48 hours, according to a Special Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center late Monday morning.
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Disturbance in central tropical Atlantic Ocean has a 50% chance of forming

There’s a 50 percent chance that a tropical disturbance will form within 48 hours, according to a Special Tropical Weather Outlook ...

12 years ago

 Jean Altomari learns to walk using the ReWalk at Moss Rehabilitation. (NewsWorks file photo)

FDA approves exoskeleton for paralyzed patients’ home use

A device that enables paralyzed people to stand and walk has just gotten approval from the FDA for home use.    < ...

12 years ago

 Members of the carpenters union protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center Monday. Postal workers are  having their annual meeting there. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Carpenters’ protest looks like picket line, but postal workers cross into Pa. Convention Center

When is a picket line called a protest?  That may be the situation when another union just walks by the signs. The carpenter ...

12 years ago

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 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's pop-up garden on South Street serves beer under a loophole that some Pennsylvania lawmakers are thinking about closing. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

Pop-up beer gardens in Philly stirring brouhaha

Walking by one of Philadelphia’s new pop-up beer gardens, you probably wouldn’t guess it’s at the center of a huge fight. D ...

12 years ago

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Flags to be lowered in N.J. to honor fallen officer

Gov. Chris Christie has ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown at half-staff Tuesday in honor of a fallen northern New Jersey p ...

12 years ago

 Kimberly A. Lloyd has been appointed as interim president and CEO of OARC. (Image courtesy of OARC)

Jack Kitchen out at West Oak Lane’s OARC, new interim president/CEO named

The Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corp. announced Monday that it appointed Kimberly A. Lloyd, chair of the Lincoln University Board of Tru ...

12 years ago

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