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Several years ago at a murder trial, my first time in the jury box, I held in my hand the piece of lead that took the life of a man. ...

Rutgers University has chosen Julie Hermann to replace Tim Pernetti as athletic director ...

Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania say storytelling helps them care for patients.   Geriatrician Jason Karlawis ...

A University of Delaware-led study has found that decades-old federal standards overestimate current poultry industry contributions to wa ...

Early humans drew on cave walls; ancient Egyptians preserved cultural relics in pyramid tombs; and wealthy Renaissance men displayed curi ...

[Updated at 7:07 p.m.] Your next debaucherous night of drinking and smoking might help close the Philadelphia Sc ...

A Philadelphia abortion doctor has been sentenced to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could & ...

Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration is telling lawmakers that he’ll name a central Pennsylvania public school superintendent as ...

The Chester County Sheriff’s Department has raised about $20,000 through a gun raffle that included an AR-15 rifle similar to the o ...

It was the first of five in a series of gun legislation unveiled earlier this year and now it’s headed to Gov. Jack Markell’s desk to ...

There is a ghost economy at work in Old City.  Hand-painted advertisements from a different era, faded to the point of hardly being ...

Superstorm Sandy: A Live Town Hall airs live on WHYY-TV, Thursday, May 16th at 8 p.m More than six months after Superstorm Sandy c ...

The Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia will soon be looking for a new leader. President and CEO Laura Foster says she’s ste ...

Shortly after his 1972 re-election victory, Richard Nixon plucked a chord of caution: “Second terms are almost inevitably downhill. ...

Outrage over last fall’s chemical spill in Paulsboro, N.J. continued this week in the form of another lawsuit. Two-dozen fir ...