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Your guide to the Aug. 13 N.J. Senate primary
The death of New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg in early June invoked a series of unusual proceedings that will come to a head in a spec ...
13 years ago
FBI meets plane in Philly after apparent threat
Federal authorities are at Philadelphia’s airport because of an apparent bomb threat made in connection with an incoming flight fro ...
13 years ago
What does the First Amendment have to do with gluten-free products?
Surprisingly, a lot. Gluten-free products have become all the rage. Whether it be for food allergies or weight-loss diets, many pe ...
13 years ago
Conrail asks court to dismiss suit by Paulsboro first responder
Conrail is asking a federal court in Camden to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from last year’s train derailment in Paulsboro. Th ...
13 years ago
NOWCAST (12:30 p.m.): Showers in South Jersey
Showers are now moving across the Delaware Bay, with isolated moderate activity near Sea Isle City. The precipitation is heading g ...
13 years ago
Outward Bound program brings together MLK and GHS students in anticipation of coming school year
It’s just before noon when rising junior Noelani Hawkins nears the top of a 30-foot pole planted inside a wooded slice of Fairmount ...
13 years ago
Education Law Center alleges discrimination in Pa. alternative ed programs
Pennsylvania’s Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth programs are supposed to help turn around disorderly public school studen ...
13 years ago
Wilmington mayor talks business and state of the city
Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams is now past the halfway mark during his first year in office. The Mayor who ran on the idea of change sa ...
13 years ago
Will Democrats be coming to Philly in 2016?
Could another national political convention be in Philadelphia’s future? An effort is underway to bring one to the city in 2016. ...
13 years ago
Poll workers: An endangered species in Bucks County?
Poll workers may be an endangered species in Bucks County. Last May’s primary was nearly two hundred poll workers short of about 1, ...
13 years ago
Celebrate National Lighthouse Day at the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse
Lighthouses are throwbacks to a time without GPS, when they served as crucial beacons on dark nights. And today’s thei ...
13 years ago
Of love letters in the sand, and National Lighthouse Day
My old pal Chuck snapped this heartwarming photo during his beach walk in Sea Isle this morning, around 54th Street. We’re not sure ...
13 years ago
Unsettled weather pattern is back
It’s not the early August forecast that you dream about during bitterly cold winter days. There is a chance of showers and t ...
13 years ago
Why did Jeff Bezos buy The Washington Post?
Maybe Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ponied up pocket change to buy The Washington Post because he truly wants to revitaliz ...
13 years ago
Local home brewers share tips with beer brewing beginners
Self-proclaimed beer evangelist Lynn Hoffman sits on his porch with a glass of La Fin Du Monde, his eyes welling up as he describes the d ...
13 years ago