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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. < ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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$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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

Dave Davies: Off Mic

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 ...

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