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If you think the only job of your taste receptors is to keep you coming back to the candy dish, think again. Researchers at the Universit ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is sending commercial haulers to Delaware to pick up 20,000 tons of road salt — a commodi ...

A Pennsylvania judge is granting former Penn State president Graham Spanier’s request to put on hold his defamation civil lawsuit a ...

My hat’s off to EgoPo for staging the rarely-produced 1888 work that out-Ibsens Ibsen. Oh, the angst! (Of it all!) In a ...

Tastykake began baking on Feb. 25, 1914, making cakes and pies out of a small bakery in Germantown. But about 150 years before tha ...

Attorney General Eric Holder says state attorneys general are not obligated to defend laws in their states banning same sex-marriage if t ...

Mt. Airy Art Garage co-founder Linda Slodki said that while turnout has been great for the art center’s quilting classes and “ ...

Pennsylvania’s State Police force stands to gain hundreds of new troopers under Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget proposal. Ho ...

If there is one place that New Jersey residents can feel at home, it’s along the shore. If you live outside of Philly, you can̵ ...

The Philadelphia Zoo presented Motuba, a western lowland gorilla, to the public Tuesday. He’s the latest ape to join the zoo’ ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is proposing a state budget that does not raise taxes or trim school aid, but offers no major new programs ...

If you’re in extreme South Jersey, plan for a slower Wednesday morning commute.  A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect ...

A new report by the U.S. Justice Department says the Pennsylvania prison system employs solitary confinement far too often for inmates wh ...