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A beach day? It depends on your tolerance for cold

A Canadian air mass continues to dominate the region. Cool and mostly sunny today, with highs in the 50s and a dry westerly breeze at tim ...

13 years ago

DuPont transitions from chemicals to agribusiness [video]

DuPont continued its transition away from a chemical business when its board of directors voted to spin off its performance chemical unit ...

13 years ago

 In this image provided by Northrop Grumman Corp. a pre-production model of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is shown. (AP Photo/Northrop Grumman, file)
National Interest

The plane truth about wasted taxpayer money

Oh man, what a mess: A botched design, squabbling contractors, lousy administration oversight, computer glitches and delays, taxpayer mon ...

13 years ago

80-year sentence in N.J. murders of 2 Canadians

A homeless woman who admitted fatally stabbing two Canadian tourists in Atlantic City, N.J., during an attempted street robbery last year ...

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 A scene from the annual Chestnut Hill Halloween Parade. (Jana Shea/for NewsWorks, file)
Philly Parenting

6 spots for Halloween family fun this weekend

Wondering where to head this weekend with your crew of little superheroes, ballerinas, witche ...

13 years ago

Car takes ‘Rocky’ drive down Art Museum steps [video]

A car is caught on video taking a late night drive down the most famous set of steps in Philadelphia. ...

13 years ago

 Miley Cyrus rehearses for her performance on NBC's
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Wrong about sex, from J.D. Salinger to Miley Cyrus

When Miley Cyrus, after asserting that everybody’s sex life comes to a screeching halt at age 40, told Matt Lauer that, age 55 ...

13 years ago

 The Michener Art Museum presents

Weekly Entertainment Guide – Grace Kelly, Fringe Wilmington Festival and Halloween

Looking for something to do this week? WHYY’s Robin Bloom has some recommendations on what’s happening in the Philadelphia re ...

13 years ago

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Repainting Washington Ave. could mean realigning Washington Ave.

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Urban Planning

Students launch University City-wide bike collective

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Urban Planning

October 25: Council OKs tax lien sales | New South Broad Dranoff project | SugarHouse expansion drawings | Amtrak agrees to add bike parking | East Mt. Airy gets new parkland

13 years ago

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A proposal for financing properties acquired by the Philadelphia Land Bank

13 years ago

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Urban Planning

October 25-27: Laurel Hill Cemetery Halloween Tour | Philadelphia Orchard Day | Growing Healthy Communities | Cobbs Creek 5K | Fernhill Park tree tour | Liberty Lands Park kids’ festival

13 years ago

$162 million going to N.J. coastal restoration, research

A few days before the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell traveled to New Jersey to announce ap ...

13 years ago

 A surgeon carries a harvested kidney. (AP File Photo)

Study finds that offering cash for kidneys could be cost-effective

A new Canadian study finds that offering cash for kidneys from living donors could be cost-effective — meaning it would be cheaper ...

13 years ago

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