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Pittsburgh’s strip district added to national register of historic places
Pittsburgh’s Strip District has been added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic District. Ther ...
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Former N.J. dockworkers, Local VP plead guilty in union probe
Two former New Jersey dock workers have pleaded guilty to conspiring to extort Christmas tributes from members of a local branch of the I ...
12 years ago
Ruling allows expert testimony on reliability of eyewitness ID
Pennsylvania criminal defendants are now able to offer expert testimony about the reliability of eyewitness identification following a de ...
12 years ago
Train strikes tractor-trailer in eastern Pa.
Emergency crews are on the scene of an accident involving a train and a tractor trailer in northeastern Pennsylvania. Berks County ...
12 years ago
Bidding farewell to proud, sad remnant of Philadelphia’s past with ‘Funeral for a Home’
The house at 3711 Melon St. in Philadelphia’s Mantua neighborhood was never grand. Built in 1872, it was first the home of I ...
12 years ago
ListenPension changes could save Pa. $11 billion over 30 years, analysis says
Pennsylvania House lawmakers have the actuarial analysis they need to start collecting votes on a measure to overhaul the state’s p ...
12 years ago
Who’s right about increasing inequality, Thomas Piketty or his critics?
French economist Thomas Piketty’s latest book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has attracted both praise and criticism for its ...
12 years ago
Best debate answer I’ve ever heard
I probably recorded 25 hours of candidate debates this spring, and I wanted to share the two-minute piece of audio above, which might be ...
12 years ago
ListenTelevision weather forecasts should get serious about climate change
According to the American Meteorological Society, we have “unequivocal evidence” that “human activities” — espe ...
12 years ago
ListenOne man recording the sound of every town in N.J. [photos]
Wagenblast still announces traffic in New York City on weekends. He’s also the voice of the announcements on New York subway platfo ...
12 years ago
ListenTwo Delaware medical examiner’s office employees arrested
Two employees of the Chief Medical Examiner’s office have been arrested as the state continues to investigate drug evidence tampering.< ...
12 years ago
Penn, CHOP study finds blood flow to the brain changes in teens
Researchers have found that the amount of blood flow to the brain changes in adolescence — but in different ways for girls and boys ...
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