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The Philadelphia School District plans to launch its own online school this summer, part of an effort to reclaim thousands of students an ...

The Philadelphia Art Alliance, in Rittenhouse Square, is exhibiting art made under artificially imposed restrictions. “The T ...

(Note to readers: I wrote this story last week, before any of us could imagine someone would deliberately set off bombs at the Boston ...

A woman trained only as a medical assistant says she gave anesthesia and changed dosages when she worked at a Philadelphia abortion clini ...

As Philadelphia City Council members consider how to provide relief to homeowners in gentrifying neighborhoods as the city moves to a mar ...

Though more that 90 percent of Americans support requiring background checks for all gun buyers, it was not enough to convince U.S. legis ...

The Boston Marathon bombings have prompted organizers of the U.S. Open golf championship to take a deeper look at security measures in pl ...

Philadelphia Police have released surveillance footage of a pair of unknown burglars breaking into an East Germantown daycare center earl ...

Three years after New Jersey’s medical marijuana law was enacted, only one of the six authorized alternative treatment centers is d ...

Running is my therapy, it’s my drug and, more than anything, it is my friend. And so I had ...

A new University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey center in Cherry Hill offers a slew of cutting-edge options for people with depr ...

The plan: fly in a handful of foreign journalists. The goal: gin up some positive press. That’s the idea behind a media ...

Author, ethicist and futurist Rosalyn Wiggins Berne will return to Germantown this week to speak at Greene Street Friends School, the sce ...

Senior Airman Daniel Shimanski was awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal earlier this month, a rare honor for any medic to receive. ...

The International Association of Fire Fighters Local 22 has set up a new fund in honor of deceased Philadelphia firefighter Michael Goodw ...