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Tea, roses and love drew moms and their families to Wyck on Mother’s Day [gallery]

On Mother’s Day afternoon, the Wyck Historic House, Garden and Farm opened its Germantown Avenue doors, lawns and gardens to childr ...

13 years ago

Funds being raised for Fattah Jr’s legal fees

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode are raising money to help pay the legal bills for a congre ...

13 years ago

Dozens of 14,000 on Pa. Megan’s Law registry have arrest warrants

A man who held police at bay over the weeke ...

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Police make arrest in University of Delaware football player stabbing

Newark police have arrested a man accused of stabbing a University of Delaware student during an altercation early Sunday morning. < ...

13 years ago

Education

Philly schools gets tough with two charters over money dispute

Philadelphia School District officials are recommending that Discovery Charter School in West Philadelphia be shut down, due to a high-st ...

13 years ago

Student artwork on display at RoxArt Gallery through May

The walls of the RoxArt Gallery in Roxborough are lined with professional artwork for most of the year, but for the entire month of May, ...

14 years ago

Suspect killed, 2 bodies found after Trenton standoff

After enduring several days of captivity inside a small room of their New Jersey home that also contained the decomposing bodies of their ...

14 years ago

N.J. Supreme Court to hear beach dune case

The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that takes on new significance in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The jus ...

14 years ago

National Interest

Hillary derangement syndrome: Back to the future

What a belly laugh it was yesterday when Benghazi-hunter Darrell Issa insisted on Meet the Press that “Hillary ClintonR ...

14 years ago

They loved their Northwest Philly parks this weekend [gallery]

Despite the expected rainy weather, volunteers turned out at some parks in Northwest Philadelphia on Saturday to spruce up the green spac ...

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Arts & Entertainment

World Series of Birding calls the young and old to criss-cross N.J.

Despite heavy rains, hundreds of bird watchers – from grizzled veterans to sprightly novices – spread out all over New Jersey ...

14 years ago

Report: Philly students at risk due to district nurse cuts

The School District of Philadelphia laid off or lost to attrition more than a third of its school nurses last academic year in ongoing ef ...

14 years ago

Councilman wants to extend horse-drawn carriage hours in Philly

A Philadelphia city councilman wants to extend the working hours for the horses that pull carriages in Philadelphia’s historic dist ...

14 years ago

Voices in the Family

Data reveals sharp increase in suicide among middle-age Americans

Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have gone up significantly in the last ten years, according to new data from the Centers for Di ...

14 years ago

Montco Democrats decry Pa. redistricting plan

Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court approved a legislative redistricting plan, after rejecting an earlier version last year. But sub ...

14 years ago

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