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Authorities: Trucker in Morgan crash hadn’t slept

A truck driver’s lack of sleep is being blamed for the highway crash that injured Tracy Morgan and killed another comedian in New J ...

12 years ago

Workers protest outside Mayor's office

Philly airport workers call for immediate pay raises that voters approved

An executive order from the mayor and a charter change approved by voters last month are still not enough to get workers at Philadelphia ...

12 years ago

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 Michael Moses Ward, formerly Birdie Africa, in 1996. He died last September in a cruise ship hot tub.(AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr., file)
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Autopsy shows Birdie Africa highly intoxicated when he drowned in hot tub

A Florida medical examiner has ruled the hot tub death last year of Michael Moses Ward, once known as Birdie Africa, was a drowning due t ...

12 years ago

Eighth grade graduates of Green Street Friends School in Germantown line up for their class photo before holding their graduation exercises Friday afternoon June 6, 2014 at the school.

Eighth-graders graduate from Greene Street Friends School [gallery]

On Friday, 21 eighth graders became Greene Street Friends School g ...

12 years ago

 Sandy Hook Lighthouse. (Photo: Kiszka King via Flickr)
Down the Shore

Sandy Hook Lighthouse to celebrate 250 years Saturday

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, the oldest standing and operating lighthouse in the United States, turns 250 this week, and you’re cordially ...

12 years ago

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Delaware congressman running for re-election

U.S. Rep. John Carney announced that he will run for a third term. Since 2011, Carney has held Delaware’s only seat in the U.S. ...

12 years ago

 A child uses Stick-lets to build an outdoor structure. (Photo courtesy of Christina Kazakia)
Philly Parenting

Philadelphia entrepreneur gives urban nature play a new twist

While out to dinner one night, Rhode Island School of Design grad student Christina Kazakia recounted favorite childhood memories with he ...

12 years ago

 Women play the sekere, or shaker, a traditional instrument of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, as they make their way toward the South Street Bridge during a procession at the Odunde Festival. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)
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Odunde Festival draws thousands to a celebration of African culture

A woman in a flowing yellow robe and head scarf leans over the South Street Bridge and flings a handful of fruit into the Schuylkill Rive ...

12 years ago

 Investigators at the scene of Monday morning's suicide-by-train in East Falls. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Man struck by SEPTA train in East Falls IDd as 44-year-old from Holmesburg

Police identified the man struck by a SEPTA regional-rail train in East Falls on Monday as a 44-year-old from the Holmesburg section of P ...

12 years ago

National Interest

Why no mention of domestic right-wing terrorism?

  Two right-wing losers, locked and loaded, strode Sunday into a Vegas pizza shop and executed two cops – a classic cas ...

12 years ago

Residents, developer continue battle over historic Roxborough home

Members of the Central Roxborough Civic Association dedicated a portion of their meeting on Thursday night to discussion about developer ...

12 years ago

Former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell. (AP file photo/Steve Ruark)

Delaware’s Gov. Markell urges ‘focus on the ability rather than on the disability’ in hiring

Next month will mark two years since Delaware Governor Jack Markell introduced his landmark initiative, “ ...

12 years ago

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To feds investigating sexual misconduct at 55 colleges and universities: Let the grown-ups handle this

The long arm of the federal government is growing longer with the Obama Administration’s continued pressure on members of its new s ...

12 years ago

Vest saves Bucks cop stabbed by escapee

Authorities say a bulletproof vest protected a police officer when he was stabbed near Philadelphia by a prison escapee.Officials say the ...

12 years ago

Despite concerns, Pa. considers shrinking government

A proposed constitutional amendment to slice and dice all branches of Pennsylvania’s government was sent to the full Senate Monday ...

12 years ago

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