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Toomey, Meehan join vets in opposition to ranking new drone medal above combat medals
Area veterans and one senator say they don’t want drone operators given a medal that ranks higher than those earned in direct comba ...
14 years ago
Temple marching band ushers in ‘March Madness’ at Liberty Place [video]
Members of the Temple University marching band were on hand at Liberty Place in Center City Philadelphia to help celebrate the start of M ...
14 years ago
N.J. panel moves to ban ‘conversion therapy’ for gay kids
The health committee in the New Jersey Senate has advanced legislation that would ban licensed therapists from counseling gay children to ...
14 years ago
LaSalle has to find a new way to play … in the big dance
LaSalle University is in the NCAA tournament for the first time in more than 20 years. The little school that could had to mobilize quick ...
14 years ago
Temple preps for Spring with giant Adirondack chairs on campus [video]
Yes, it’s currently only 40 degrees in Phily. But the clocks have been changed, Spring Break is over and Temple University is ready ...
14 years ago
14th Police District: Where someone in Chestnut Hill was stabbed twice with a pencil
This list covers March 8-14, 2013. March 8 5:50 a.m. Robbery: 300 block of Upsal St. $600 of jewelry taken ...
14 years ago
700 in N.J. hired to work on Sandy cleanup, thanks to U.S. grant
After months of unemployment, about 700 New Jersey residents are working again. They’re now in temporary jobs helping with the clea ...
14 years ago
Superstorm Sandy’s underwater mess in Barnegat Bay being cleaned up
Four and a half months after Superstorm Sandy barreled across the Jersey Shore, a question lingers for millions of people who love to go ...
14 years ago
Pa. plan liquor plan amended to phase out state stores instead of shutdown
A key legislative panel has endorsed a radically changed version of Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s liquor-privatization bill. < ...
14 years ago
Police release video of Manayunk burglary suspect
The Philadelphia Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect in response to a recent commercial burgl ...
14 years ago
Newtown: How quickly we forget
It now seems certain that the madness that is our gun laws will not be changed in any meaningful way by the assault weapon mass murder of ...
14 years ago
Wissahickon Creek claims another car
On Saturday afternoon a crash on Lincoln Drive sent a vehicle into Wissahickon Creek. Philadelphia Police say a driver lost contro ...
14 years ago