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5th District: Roxborough TD Bank targeted twice by same robber in a week
This list covers Feb. 11 to Feb. 17 Feb. 11 2 a.m. Theft: 500 block of Conarroe St. Car title and re ...
14 years ago
Fire-struck Mount Airy property sold 20 months later
A vacant Mount Airy property deemed “a blight on the community” by neighbors was sold Wednesday in a Philadelphia tax sale.&n ...
14 years ago
Suspect in two through-the-wall Germantown burglaries arrested
Germantown’s hole-in-the-wall bandit is now in a hole of a different sort. On Wednesday, Philadelphia Police announced the a ...
14 years ago
Poll knocks N.J.’s Senator Menendez
A new poll shows that allegations against U.S. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey are having an impact on voters. Menendez is unde ...
14 years ago
What’s next for Revel and A.C. casinos?
Atlantic City’s latest and glitziest casino is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after nearly a year spent trailing the rest of the ...
14 years ago
Kane pleads for money for Pa. attorney general’s office
The Pennsylvania attorney general is asking state lawmakers for a $12 million budget boost. About a week after Attorney General Ka ...
14 years ago
Health secretary pushing Obamacare in Philly
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services visited Philadelphia today to talk about implementing the next phase of “Obamacare. ...
14 years ago
Philly City Council gets good budget update
The city’s chief money people report to Philadelphia City Council this week during budget hearings. ...
14 years ago
Bowles speaks in Philly as Washington stares at sequester — what would you ask him?
It is a fitting time for Erskine Bowles to be in Philadelphia. He and his fellow co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Respo ...
14 years ago
If you’re renting out a room to travelers, you may be violating Philly zoning laws
More and more, travelers are skipping hotels in favor of private homes when they hit the road. Web sites like Airbnb make it easy for bot ...
14 years ago
ListenDebate over subpoena power in N.J.
The budget committee in the New Jersey Assembly has advanced a measure in a party line vote to give itself subpoena powers. Budget ...
14 years ago
Strauss and commissioned works highlight Philadelphia Orchestra new season
The Philadelphia Orchestra will be paying tribute to Richard Strauss, premiering new work written for its musicians, and starting a multi ...
14 years ago
First Person this week is the newly elected County Executive of New Castle County, Tom Gordon. He is a familiar face to the job as he onc ...
14 years ago
Before Howard Pyle, or N.C. Wyeth, there was F.O.C. Darley. The self taught artist was the son of theatrical performers. He was perhaps t ...
14 years ago
Delaware gun bill sponsor, Democrat Representative Valerie Longhurst talks guns and focuses on two pieces of legislation she’s supp ...
14 years ago