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Physicans can now apologize in Pa. without fear of legal liability

A new Pennsylvania law will allow medical providers to do something many take for granted: Say they’re sorry for a bad outcome. ...

13 years ago

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Speak Easy

Fragility, power, and suffocating a goldfish with breakfast cereal

I killed my first pet. It was a goldfish, an orange flicker in a plastic baggie that I carried carefully home from the Lankenau Fair. The ...

13 years ago

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Delaware police investigate remains found near Rt. 13

Delaware State Police are trying to identify skeletal remains found this morning in New Castle. According to police, a billboard m ...

13 years ago

Headmaster of Delaware’s Tower Hill School resigns

The Tower Hill School says Headmaster Christopher Wheeler has stepped down amid a child abuse investigation. In an email sent to p ...

13 years ago

 Surveillance footage of the attempted armed robber, 6:55 p.m. Oct. 17. (Courtesy of PPD)

Police seek gunman in attempted robbery at Dunkin Donuts location in Cedarbrook [video]

Philadelphia Police are seeking the public’s help to identify a man who tried to rob the Dunkin Donuts near Wadsworth and Cheltenha ...

13 years ago

Dark and chilly today, clearing out tonight

It’s a chilly morning throughout the Garden State. Showers are moving through portions of South Jersey, to the north, it’s cl ...

13 years ago

Del. sites participating in drug take back

Delaware residents can turn in expired, unwanted or unused prescription drugs at locations throughout Delaware this weekend. The D ...

13 years ago

National Interest

Will Democrats take back the House in 2014?

  The buzz du jour decrees that the GOP, by dint of its wanton behavior, will cough up control of the U. S. House in ...

13 years ago

 A view of the 6900 block of N. 16th St. in West Oak Lane. (Image from Google Maps)

Second case of man fatally shot inside car in Northwest Philly reported early Wednesday

For the second time in less than 24 hours, a man was found shot dead in a parked car in Northwest Philadelphia early Wednesday morning. < ...

13 years ago

Education

Aide pleads in Philly charter school fraud case

A top aide to a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of having defrauded three charter schools of more than $6.5 million has pleaded guilt ...

13 years ago

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Philly Parenting

What can kids learn from a graffiti artist? Lessons from Banksy

Banksy, a British street artist, is in residence on the streets of New York this month. Banksy̵ ...

13 years ago

 Workers unroll a mural of George Washington by N.C. Wyeth to be displayed at Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey.  (Image courtesy of Thomas Edison State College)
Arts & Entertainment

Iconic N.C. Wyeth painting, a Trenton treasure, continues residence in city

Thomas Edison State College in Trenton has just received an enormous painting by N.C. Wyeth. The painting is regarded as one of  the ...

13 years ago

 President Barack Obama, far left, is shown meeting with Democratic leadership in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. From left: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Rep. James Clyburn of S.C., Rep. Xavier Becerra of Calif., Rep. Joseph Crowley of N.Y. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Speak Easy

The government shutdown said much about how our government actually operates

The United States of America supposedly just experienced 16 days of government shutdown until it ended with a last-minute debt ceiling vo ...

13 years ago

Philly schools a big issue in Controller debate

You can listen to the entire Controller debate by clicking ...

13 years ago

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Flag dedication ceremony at Holme-Crisp Cemetery

13 years ago

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