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 Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford is one of dozens of New Jersey politicians who accepted illegal financial contributions from engineering firm Birdsall Services Group. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, file)

Which N.J. politicians got all that Birdsall money?

The well-connected engineering firm Birdsall Services Group that pleaded guilty to evading New Jersey’s “Pay to Play” l ...

13 years ago

 Cellist Jordan Salguero, a graduate of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, plays during a farewell concert for 66 music teachers who are losing their jobs. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
Arts & Entertainment

Laid-off music teachers perform farewell concert, hope for encore in Philly classrooms

An 80-piece orchestra performed a farewell concert Monday in the administrative offices of the Philadelphia School District, bidding adie ...

13 years ago

Facelift for the Cape May-Lewes Ferry [video]

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry rechristened one of its newly refurbished ships today ushering in the summer season; the upgrades also come ahea ...

13 years ago

Pa. Legislature eyes busy last week before summer break

The Pennsylvania Legislature’s beginning a busy week before lawmakers depart Harrisburg for the summer. Three prominent comm ...

13 years ago

 Fabian Lopez works on an abstract landscape painting in his Philadelphia studio.  (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

The abstract landscapes of Philly painter Fabian Lopez [video]

In his fourth-floor studio at the Crane Arts building, Fabian Lopez is applying paint to a small canvas perched on two stacked buckets. T ...

13 years ago

 Propane tanks loaded on an AmeriGas truck at the company's headquarters in King of Prussia, Pa.

Casey introduces bill to promote clean-energy vehicles

A move is under way to encourage the use of “clean-energy” fuels in cars and trucks, but it can’t happen without a bett ...

13 years ago

 An instrument, reflected on the sunglasses of the performer. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Reinvented West Oak Lane Jazz Festival draws modest (but appreciative) crowd

The Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC) reincarnated the shuttered West Oak Lane Jazz Festival on Saturday with a smaller six ...

13 years ago

Secret surveillance reminds us: Trust, but verify

As Ronald Reagan said many times with regard to our treaties with the Soviet Union, “Trust, but verify.” We trust our preside ...

13 years ago

Immigration battle hits home to Philadelphia clergy

Immigration legislation is under review in Washington and some local clergy went to Sen. Pat Toomey’s Philadelphia office to delive ...

13 years ago

 Saturday night's crowd during Tom Petty's performance. (Photo courtesy Firefly Music Festival)

Firefly Music Festival announces 2014 dates in Delaware

Less than a day after the second annual Firefly Music Festival wrapped up in Dover, event coordinators have already announced plans to be ...

13 years ago

Education

High court sends back Texas race-based plan

The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court for another look. The court’s ...

13 years ago

 A man was shot inside this vehicle in West Oak Lane on Sunday night. (Matthew Grady/for NewsWorks)

Shooting victim found at troubled West Oak Lane 7-Eleven location

A man is in stable condition after being shot in West Oak Lane late Sunday night. Shortly after 11 p.m., police responded to the a ...

13 years ago

 (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, file)
National Interest

Paula Deen’s recipe for Southern-fried racism

The precipitous downfall of celebrity chef Paula Deen – the 66-year-old Dixie damsel who  ...

13 years ago

 (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A ban on converting gay kids in N.J.?

Both chambers of the New Jersey Legislature are expected to vote on a bill that would ban licensed therapists from trying to convert gay ...

13 years ago

At the scene of a fatal shooting in West Oak Lane last summer. (Bas Slabbers for WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Saving the boys of Philadelphia’s summer

When I was a child summer was a time of friendship and fun, exploration and discovery. It was a time when the world seemed bigger. But as ...

13 years ago

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