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$2 tax on cigarettes to aid schools wins City Council committee support
Philadelphia’s budget process is moving forward as a key City Council committee approved a cigarette tax to help the schools. < ...
13 years ago
Gosnell’s wife gets 23 months for helping with illegal abortion
The wife of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was sentenced Wednesday to seven to 23 months in the Philadelphia County Prison w ...
13 years ago
Pa. may outsource all mental health services for inmates
About 10,000 inmates in Pennsylvania state prisons require mental health services — and those services may be completely privatized ...
13 years ago
Artist lobbies A.C. to host his Sandy debris sculpture
Lennox Warner is as much an artist as beachcomber. The longtime Atlantic City resident trawls the sands of the beaches looking for materi ...
13 years ago
Lisa Jackson is Apple’s new environmental adviser
Lisa Jackson was the former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protecti ...
13 years ago
$128.3 billion budget plan from Pa. House GOP skimps on transportation, pension changes
Pennsylvania House Republicans have unveiled their own budget proposal. The $28.3 billion spending plan comes in at about $110 mil ...
13 years ago
Millions in government assistance wrongly sent to N.J. inmates
Thousands of prisoners in New Jersey have been unfairly taking advantage of taxpayer money. State Comptroller Matt B ...
13 years ago
Ethically challenged judge gets support from his Philly base
When suspended Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Nocella had to face the music two weeks ago — a hearing on misconduct charges before ...
13 years ago
Philly student’s march to D.C. highlights schools’ fears over proposed budget cuts
To protest budget cuts, many Philadelphia public school students have hoisted signs and marched in support of their schools. Guillermo Al ...
13 years ago
14th Police District: Where a rape-at-gunpoint was reported to police
This list covers May 17-23, 2013. May 17 3:05 a.m. Robbery: 6900 block of Rodn ...
13 years ago
Delaware researchers create bait designed to protect horseshoe crabs [video]
Commercial fishing operators have a new alternative to horseshoe crabs in their efforts to catch eels and whelk, a type of sea snail, off ...
13 years ago
Philly Controller says police video cams still have serious problems
Philadelphia’s City Controller says the cameras used to monitor crime on the streets of Philadelphia have fallen into disrepair, bu ...
13 years ago
Plans to convert shuttered Wayne Junction factory into daycare leave neighbors concerned
Neighbors near Wayne Junction want more information from a property owner looking to convert a long-empty factory building into a daycare ...
13 years ago
Fran Burns leaving PICA for Philly school district
Fran Burns, executive director of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, will resign from her role there to become Chi ...
13 years ago
Margolies running for her old seat in Congress
Marjorie Margolies is ready to run again for the congressional district she held in the early ’90s, bringing some heavy backing to ...
13 years ago