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The School District will be sending out thousands of layoff notices today. In total, 3,783 District employees would be laid off, a ...

The Annual Meeting/Elections wof East Mt. Airy Neighbors will be held on Tuesday, June 11, 7p.m. Please note the change from our usual fi ...

WHYY’s Zack Seward brings us up to speed on Mayor Michael Nutter’s proposed tightened regulations for Philadelphia demolition ...

“This is my happening and it freaks me out!” In the 1970 film “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” Z ...

In my last post I wrote about the debatable merits of praying mantids, most of which aren’t native insects and are indiscriminate e ...

The Military History Book Club will meet Wednesday, June 12, 6:45 p.m., at the Falls of the Schuylkill Library, Midvale Avenue and Warden ...

Mayor Michael Nutter’s effort to impose contract terms on the city’s largest union has hit a snag in the Pennsylvania Supreme ...

A judge now has intervened on behalf of two children waiting for lung transplants at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The m ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to sign a bill prohibiting coverage for abortion in insurance plans sold on new state health ex ...

Pennsylvania is launching an amnesty program this summer to entice those who have received too much money from the unemployment compensat ...

What makes something the next big thing — the trend foodies want to follow? We all know “Sex in the City” made cupcakes the ...

Philadelphia’s Inspector General will investigate government’s role in this week’s fatal building collapse. Mayo ...

Just days after the deadly building collapse on Market Street, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is trying to make sure it doesn’t ...

President Barack Obama Friday sought to defend broad surveillance of Americans’ phone records and Internet usage by the National Se ...

Director J.P. Parrella was thrilled with the Old Academy Player’s 2012 production of Tennessee Williams’ classic “A Streetcar Named ...