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In his address before the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Mayor Michael Nutter offered a bit of a preview of his budget addr ...

Sequestration is either a legitimate worry or no big deal. That’s the summation of the divergent views of Pennsylvania’s two ...

The Supreme Court will soon decide what one justice called its most important criminal procedure case in decades: whether to allow police ...

Feb. 18 9:30 a.m. Residential Burglary: 200 block of Hermitage St. $2,000 of copper tubing taken from residence.< ...

Nearly a dozen of Philadelphia’s artist groups are banding to together to form a collective of collectives. To be called Cit ...

Taxipedia is answering people’s questions about Philadelphia’s property tax reassessment. Today’s question come ...

A floor-to-ceiling projection screen. A handful of wall-mounted TVs. That uneasy feeling of forgetting which coast you̵ ...

A New Jersey lawmaker says Gov. Chris Christie has decided to extend Medicaid coverage to more low-income New Jersey adults in a decision ...

Several readers of Lightning Rod have suggested we address the surprising news that surfaced earlier this month when scientists announced ...

Feb. 15 8 a.m. Residential Burglary: 5000 block of Erringer Pl. Three flat screen televisions taken from residenc ...

Apple has agreed to give more than $100 million in iTunes store credits to settle a lawsuit alleging that the iPhone and iPad maker impro ...

Once the doors opened for Family Fun Night at Simons Recreation Center this past Friday, Aniyah Shubert, 9,  ran in line to grab a f ...

A U.S. Airways passenger on Friday was lucky to have not one doctor onboard with her, but three. During a flight from Philadelphia t ...

I can say that, after 40 years of playing with the Philadelphia Orchestra and all of its renowned soloists, I consider Wolfgang Sawallisc ...

Following the attention on films like Josh Fox’s 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary “Gasland” and the 2012 Matt Damo ...