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New Jersey pharmaceutical company pleads guilty to illegal marketing
A New Jersey-based drugmaker agreed on Tuesday to pay $45 million to resolve charges that it improperly marketed its weight-gain drug to ...
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Tony Auth illustrates Philadelphia’s property tax bureaucracy
NewsWorks artist in residence Tony Auth asked readers for some help and suggestions when he hit the drawing board to illustrate some of t ...
14 years ago
Warm welcome in Harrisburg as new Public Welfare chief assumes hot seat
A Pennsylvania Senate hearing gave lawmakers a chance to heap praise on the state Department of Public Welfare’s brand-new chief. ...
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NAACP backs Delaware bill to restore the voting rights of felons
In his first trip to Wilmington, Delaware, Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, encouraged state lawmakers to support t ...
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$9 billion N.J. school-funding plan may fall short, education advocates say
A school-funding plan faced some criticism during a public hearing on New Jersey’s proposed $32.9 billion state budget. Gov. ...
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Emlen Elementary sixth grader wins first place at Carver Science Fair
Tyree Gladden, Jr., a sixth grader at Emlen Elementary School, won first place at this year’s George Washington Carver Science Fair ...
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After small trip of its own, N.C. Wyeth ‘Odyssey’ painting safe in Philly museum
“The Trial of the Bow” was thought missing for 30 years until it was recently discovered in the Philadelphia headquarters of ...
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Philly controller worried about AVI assessments
Philadelphia’s city controller says he wants a look at the nuts and bolts behind the reassessment of the city’s real estate a ...
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Bullet removed from Wilmington police officer’s face
About a month after Wilmington police officer Justin Wilkers was shot in the line of duty, doctors finally removed the bullet from his fa ...
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South Jersey Shore towns could flood because of mid-week storm
Jersey Shore towns Atlantic City and south could get walloped with flood waters during this week’s storm, says Tom Thunstrom of ...
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Philly has second highest tax burden in nation, study finds
Not surprising, maybe, but it’s discouraging. For more than a decade now, the city of Washington, D.C., has done an annual s ...
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Pa. court directs tobacco money to health care
Pennsylvania government officials were trying to determine the impact of a judge’s ruling Tuesday that a portion of the state’ ...
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United Way’s local 211 hotline getting about 100 calls a day
“Thank you for calling 211. Debbie speaking. How may I help you?” If you’re looking for food or housing, physica ...
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Lawmakers host hearings on N.J. budget plan
New Jersey lawmakers held the first in a series of public hearings Tuesday on Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed $32.9 billion state bu ...
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5th District: Rash of vehicle thefts in Roxborough and Manayunk
This report covers Feb. 25 to March 3. February 25 12:55 p.m. Theft: 8500 block of Henry Ave. $745 w ...
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