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The world is full of mysteries and one of them is the way that New Jersey funds charter schools. It should be straight math, right? Not s ...

Two bills governing the use of electronic cigarettes or e-cigs have been signed into law in Philadelphia.  The city’s b ...

Philadelphia City Council’s budget hearings are usually a parade of people looking for more money.  The hearings had one surpr ...

Gov. Jack Markell announced a new program that will help prepare high school students for jobs in the manufacturing sector. The ne ...

An antique book found at a Northern Liberties vintage shop will fetch a nice price at auction, but as a bridge between the Confederate So ...

Roxborough homeowners are fighting a developer’s plan to demolish a historic home at 365 Green Lane. The “Benjamin Ken ...

Legislative investigators may be headed toward a legal showdown with Gov. Chris Christie and his team of lawyers to obtain the documentar ...

Updated at 10:49 a.m. A 2-alarm fire erupted in the Suit Corner clothing store in Old City Wednesday morning.  ...

The National Weather Service has issued a bulletin advisi ...

Few pastimes are more fun than witnessing the writhings of a “family values” fraud. For years we’ve seen a parad ...

Several tanker cars from a freight train derailed at a northeastern Philadelphia intersection, but no leaks or injuries were reported. ...

The beer distributor needs a more-masculine color scheme and strong, steely signage. The eye doctor’s office looks a little tired a ...

Main Street Manayunk will host its fourth street food festival on Saturday. From 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., over 30 food trucks and far ...

A man is facing a slew of charges stemming from a gang initiation that involved attempting to lure, touch, and knock down an Orthodox Jew ...

More than seventy years after he left this earth, Thomas “Fats” Waller’s musical legacy is defined by his joie de vivre ...