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Drexel researchers say bias in LGBT custody cases doesn’t reflect science
In a well-known case from 1999, a Mississippi judge ordered that a boy stay with his mother in a household where she was being abused rat ...
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Wilmington organization expands to help ex-offenders
The Wilmington Hope Commission now has more than enough space to help ex-offenders at its Achievement Center on Vandever Avenue in Wilmin ...
13 years ago
Holy Week, contemplative for some, marks busiest time for Christ Church organist
With this year’s overlapping of Passover and Holy Week, many area residents are sharing a period of contemplation and somber reflec ...
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Weekly Entertainment Guide – ‘The Fairy Queen,’ Jazz Fest, and Spring Blooms
Looking for something to do this week? WHYY’s Robin Bloom offers her suggestions. < ...
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N.J. jobless rate inches up slightly
New Jersey’s unemployment rate moved a bit higher last month.Preliminary data shows the jobless rate rose a 10th of point to 7.2 pe ...
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Chestnut Hill health care workers rally for better wages, benefits
More than 100 healthcare workers and supporters marched down Germantown Avenue Wednesday afternoon to rally for better benefits and highe ...
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In Pa. schools, movement to keep school librarians on the books
Researchers say school libraries across the state still lack the proper resources, but staffing levels may be increasing in the next scho ...
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Lincoln Drive gateway project gets financial boost
A grassroots effort to restore an historic gateway in Northwest Philadelphia has reached a major milestone. For FFFFomore tha ...
13 years ago
State leaders tout Delaware company that hires disadvantaged youth
State leaders were on hand for the grand opening of a new company, Popdot Signs and Graphics in Wilmington, which hires disadvantaged you ...
13 years ago
A special hen rules the roost in suburban Philly chicken flock (photos)
Raising chickens in suburban Philadelphia is not something state agriculture officials track, but they suspect interest in so-called R ...
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ListenJudge allows Atlantic City boardwalk jitney test
Motorized jitneys will get to carry passengers on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. A judge rejected a challenge by two rolling chair c ...
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Father says daughter called him from sinking van
The husband of a New Jersey woman accused of driving their children into a river says one of the teens called him from the sinking van. ...
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Half of Pa. public schools fail to meet state’s expectations, new study says
A new analysis from the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia finds 49 percent of Pennsylvania public schools fail to meet the state ...
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Sneak peek: New stuff, locally grown
Next season’s production lineups are floating in like spring breezes. The area’s 50-plus professional stage companies – the ...
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Why Democrats have a thing for single women
Democrats have a thing this year for single women – all the unmarrieds, including the divorced and the widowed – because supp ...
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