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 Princeton University was evacuated due to a bomb threat. (Alan Tu file photo/WHYY)

Princeton University re-opens after bomb scare

Princeton University has reopened its campus after an hours-long search for explosives turned up nothing. The New Jersey Ivy Leagu ...

13 years ago

 Princeton University was evacuated due to a bomb threat. (Alan Tu file photo/WHYY)

Princeton University evacuated due to bomb threat (Updated)

Princeton University has reopened its campus after an hours-long search for explosives turned up nothing. The New Jersey Ivy Leagu ...

13 years ago

Study finds some Philly airport workers earn barely more than federal minimum

Wages for contract workers at Philadelphia International Airport are so low many workers actually go hungry, a report by a worker advocac ...

13 years ago

 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justices Seamus McCaffery (left) and Ron Castille. (Image courtesy of pacourts.us)
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Castille: McCaffery should ‘rethink his position’ on Pa. high court

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille says fellow Justice Seamus McCaffery should reconsider his position on the court af ...

13 years ago

 Former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan stands with a box of petitions to run for U.S. Senate to be delivered to the state division of elections in Trenton, N.J., Monday, June 10, 2013. Four Democrats and two Republicans are in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat that opened when Frank Lautenberg died last week. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Steve Lonegan discusses his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey

The field was finalized Monday, and in a mere two months and two days, New Jersey primary voters will select candidates to run for the U. ...

13 years ago

 Audrey Kretschman with her teacher, Kelly Mosteller. (Courtesy of The Meadowbrook School)

Third graders from the Philadelphia region and Taiwan connect over donated book

A donated book that traveled halfway across the world provided an intercultural experience for The Meadowbrook School’s third grade ...

13 years ago

Corbett, a few other governors still holding out on Medicaid expansion

Gov. Tom Corbett is among a small number of holdout governors, who’ve yet to offer a definitive answer on whether their states will ...

13 years ago

Mayor: Wildwood’s saggy-pants ban likely to be approved

Visitors to the Wildwood boardwalk this summer could get caught with their pants down. The city’s commissioners will be voting tomo ...

13 years ago

 Simons Recreation Center in Germantown. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)

Security cameras to be installed at 162 city playgrounds and rec centers

Surveillance cameras, along with other equipment designed to promote safety, are scheduled to be installed at more than a dozen recreatio ...

13 years ago

 The Inquirer reports that the FBI is investigating Justice Seamus McCaffery over fees his wife received for referring cases to law firms while she was part of her husband's staff. (NewsWorks file art)
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Pa. Supreme Court justice from Philly under scrutiny

This isn’t what you’d call a banner year for judicial ethics in Pennsylvania. With the Pennsylvania Supreme Court alre ...

13 years ago

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Expect complaints against FEMA to flood in as agency releases new maps

In the coming weeks, FEMA begins releasing an updated version of its flood maps for the Jersey shore. These maps are used to set f ...

13 years ago

 Aerial view of Graterford State Prison in Southeastern Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)

Pennsylvania to replace Graterford prison with new $400 million facility

Construction has begun on a new state correctional facility in Pennsylvania that will replace the aging Graterford prison in Skippack Tow ...

13 years ago

 An man works his phone as he drives through traffic in Texas. Proposed legislation would allow police in New Jersey to search the cell phones of drivers involved in accidents to determine if they were texting or talking at the time of a crash. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Bill allowing police to search cell phones of drivers in a crash raises concerns in N.J.

Proposed legislation would allow police in New Jersey to search the cell phones of drivers involved in accidents to determine if they wer ...

13 years ago

 Cyclists gathered in Harrisburg to urge legislators to keep a line-item that includes $2 million for bicycle and pedestrian lane planning alive. (Mary Wilson/for NewsWorks)

Cyclists urge Pa. lawmakers to preserve funding for bike lanes, walking paths

The Pennsylvania Senate’s $2.5 billion transportation funding plan includes $2 million for bicycle and pedestrian lane planning. ...

13 years ago

Poll finds growing support for decriminalizing pot in N.J.

A new poll shows support for a measure to decriminalize marijuana possession in New Jersey.   Sixty-one percent of the ...

13 years ago

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