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Frank Lautenberg set several milestones during his long tenure. He was first elected to the Senate in 1982, making him the longest servin ...

The name — the Parx Casino Philly Cycling Classic — wasn’t the only thing new about this year’s bike race. Some ...

It’s not clear just when an election will be held to fill the U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey left vacant by the death of Democrat ...

Since 1848 Girard College in Philadelphia has been a home for orphans, not just a school. Starting in September of next year, that w ...

Senate Democrats are touting a spending plan that they designed to compete with proposals being advanced by Gov. Tom Corbett and the majo ...

When Planned Parenthood advertised free birth control through the Affordable Care Act, I was thrilled. I thought: This is just what women ...

Polls will be open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. today, as taxpayers in the Colonial School District vote on a $9.6 million operating referen ...

Pennsylvania Senate Democrats are outlining their budget priorities with a proposal that depends on a “liquor modernization” ...

While violent crime has increased nationwide, Philadelphia is seeing both violent and property crime declines, ...

A desire to combine ecological awareness and art is behind the latest project from the Mt. Airy Art Garage (MAAG). For nearly three weeks ...

Lower Chichester Catholics got news last Sunday that their parish, Holy Saviour Church, is going to close. ...

For three of the six years Dancing Classrooms has been bringing fifth graders to the dance floor, I’ve been going to their final Ba ...

U.S. Rep. and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Allyson Y. Schwartz was presented with Cliveden’s 2013 Heritage Award for her comm ...

New Jersey’s divorce laws provide for “permanent” alimony payments in those cases where alimony is awarded, but the law ...

A divided Supreme Court says police can legally take DNA without a warrant from those arrested in hopes of using it to solve old cases. ...