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Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar inventor, dies at 90
Colleagues say the DuPont chemist credited with inventing the body armor component Kevlar has died at age 90. Her friend, Rita Vas ...
12 years ago
Delaware lawmakers revise casino bailout
Delaware’s three gambling casinos likely won’t be getting as much financial relief from lawmakers as they were hoping. < ...
12 years ago
Audubon resident Michael Langston is an amateur in the original sense of the word, and it has served him well during a special stint with ...
12 years ago
State admits violating the education rights of Philadelphia school children
In March, Philadelphia’s state-operated school district filed an extraordinary legal complaint with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. ...
12 years ago
Delaware’s addiction to heroin
Some are saying that use of the drug has reached epidemic proportions in the state. Once confined to inner-city neighborhoods and ...
12 years ago
15 summer songs that memories are made of
What is the sound of your summer? We asked people around the office at WHYY about their favorite summer songs and the memories that go wi ...
12 years ago
Panel’s funding predicament could delay review of plan for Pa. pension changes
As Pennsylvania House Republicans work to find votes for a bill to overhaul public pension benefits, one opponent says there’s anot ...
12 years ago
Dem leaders in N.J. prepare budget with ‘millionaires tax’
Democratic leaders in New Jersey’s Legislature are proposing their own budget plan that they say will fully fund the state’s ...
12 years ago
Review: ‘Miz Martha’ Washington’s dreamy dilemma
On Planet Internet, where anything at all can become fact even if it isn’t, you might think that the nation’s first First Lad ...
12 years ago
61 students graduate from Lankenau High School [gallery]
The class of 2014 graduated from Roxborough’s Lankenau High School on Wednesday afternoon. The ceremony was held at th ...
12 years ago
As elder abuse cases increase in Pa., state launches awareness campaign
Gov. Tom Corbett has declared June “Elder Abuse Awareness Month” in Pennsylvania. “I often say elder abuse is Am ...
12 years ago
315,000 Pennsylvanians fall into gap between Medicaid, Obamacare
For months, consumer groups have been sounding alarms about a group of Pennsylvanians who earn too much to enroll in Medicaid. At the sam ...
12 years ago
Germantown man held for court after homemade explosives blew off his fingers
A Germantown man will stand trial on felony charges connected to an explosion at his home ...
12 years ago
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