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Police suspend search for teen swimmer caught in rip current off Ocean City
The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a 14-year-old boy who was swept out to sea by an undercurrent while swimming with friends of ...
12 years ago
Pa. Senate barely passes GOP’s patchwork $29.1 billion budget
A partisan $29.1 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that’s a few hours away has the Pennsylvania state Senate’s narrow ...
12 years ago
Deadline looms over Delaware lawmakers
Today is the last day for Delaware lawmakers to pass legislation before the end of the 147th General Assembly’s two-year session. < ...
12 years ago
Girl shot by Taliban will receive Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal
The National Constitution Center will present its Liberty Medal to a 17-year-old girl from Pakistan who survived an attack from the Talib ...
12 years ago
U.S. Supreme Court favors Pa. company, Hobby Lobby on contraceptives case
In a 5-to-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania cabinetmaking business, who ...
12 years ago
ListenBidders for Philadelphia casino license undeterred by Atlantic City downturn
When the Showboat Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City announced plans to close last week, analysts chalked it up to a saturated gaming mark ...
12 years ago
GM settlement proposal not sitting well with one Philly attorney
A plan by General Motors to compensate those who had ignition rotation problems led to accidents fall short, according to one Philadelphi ...
12 years ago
ListenForecasters: Variety of impacts possible Wednesday through Friday
The interaction between a series of cold frontal boundaries and a disturbance that is likely to become a tropical system is expected to d ...
12 years ago
Small-time drug debt allegedly leads to brutal assault, rape near Germantown police precinct
Choking back tears, the Germantown woman recalled how her living room was covered in blood. Brandon Schweitzer, her boyfriend of f ...
12 years ago
Millennials to Boomers: Stay out of our way, and let us get this
Millennials. Generation Y. Whatever you want to call us, we’re the generation that seems to be on the cusp of reaching adulthood wi ...
12 years ago
Relax, Baby Boomers: The Millennials are all right — and so are you
Every prior generation loves to bemoan the next — coming up with reasons that they will run the country into the ground and cannot be s ...
12 years ago
Pa Gov. Corbett: ain’t too proud to beg
Vote-trading is an old and time-honored tradition in Congress, state legislatures, town councils and probably student councils. Read Robe ...
12 years ago
2014 New Jersey fireworks shore guide (Updated with cancellations)
When it comes to Independence Day, the pursuit of happiness is how we Americans tend to mark the occasion. And from bombastic pyrotechnic ...
12 years ago
New Jersey may delay using tests to judge teachers
New Jersey lawmakers propose delaying using new standardized tests as part of their teachers’ and principals’ evaluations. ...
12 years ago