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Dover native Cherritta Matthews didn’t realize she was making history when she enrolled at Dover High School in 1954. It was ...

The leaders of New Jersey’s Senate Budget Committee have mixed reactions to a downgrade in the state’s bond rating. Th ...

Prisons have become the country’s holding tanks for people with severe mental illnesses. That may not be news, but a new ...

Former President Bill Clinton stopped in Philadelphia today to campaign for former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies. Margolies is seeking the ...

When Nina Mapp was pregnant with her first child, ultrasound images gave her doctors reason for pause. “The bones,” th ...

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale met with Philadelphia schools superintendent William Hite at district headquarters Thursda ...

For years, then-Senator Joe Biden hailed the benefits of a healthy passenger rail system. Now, Chris Coons, his replacement in the ...

Mayor Michael Nutter has sent the framework of a bill to City Council to sell the Philadelphia Gas Works to UIL Holdings, a private utili ...

The Philadelphia Police Department is developing new tactics in an effort to recruit new members, particularly minorities, to join the fo ...

Philadelphia has a new weapon to battle illegal signs that sprout like stubborn weeds all over the city. City officials are getting obnox ...

The Coast Guard has suspended its search off Monmouth County for a commercial fisherman from Virginia who apparently fell overboard. ...

For Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) and Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), the cochairs of the LegislatureR ...

Surpassing the federal government’s goal of 8,000 marketplace enrollees for the First State, more than 14,000 Delawareans signed up for ...

By law Philadelphia cannot set quotas for hiring minority contractors. But a City Councilman says he can’t even get an accur ...

At the end of this month, the Newark Board of Adjustment is expected to formally adopt, in writing, its decision to uphold the city’ ...