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Report: youngest N.J. kids most likely to die from abuse
An advocacy group has crunched the numbers and says most kids who die from abuse and neglect in New Jersey are 3 or younger. After ...
14 years ago
One billion served at Delaware Memorial Bridge
A driver coming from New Jersey to Delaware became the official face of the one-billionth motorist to cross the bridge. Jeff Wrigh ...
14 years ago
Settlement for student’s fatal fall will help fund scholarships
Proceeds from the $3 million settlement for Matthew Crozier’s fatal fall in a Phliadelphia frat house will help send others to scho ...
14 years ago
A journalist warns: Look beyond knee-jerk media coverage of Newtown killings
A few summers ago I taught at my church’s vacation bible school. I made some great fourth-grade friends that week. Since then ...
14 years ago
Delaware gun shop owners react to Newtown tragedy as state ponders stricter gun laws
Gun shop dealers around Delaware are expressing their sorrow following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. last w ...
14 years ago
Proposed Mt. Airy traffic light concerns nearby neighbors
Neighbors near the intersection of West Mt. Airy Avenue and Emlen Street are concerned that the city’s plans to install a stoplight ...
14 years ago
Fewer in N.J. seek emergency food stamps after Sandy
Fewer people in New Jersey requested and received emergency food stamps in New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy. So far, the state ha ...
14 years ago
Ex-N.J. Sen. Wayne Bryant out of prison
A former New Jersey state senator is home after serving 40 months of a sentence for corruption. Sixty-five-year-old Wayne Bryant r ...
14 years ago
Report offers glimpse of school-aid breakdown – and fight that’s likely to follow
In a likely preview of Gov. Chris Christie’s next state budget for public education – and the debates that will surely follow – his ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia protesters go to Washington to send message on ‘fiscal cliff’
Several hundred people packed onto buses in Philadelphia this morning to join protests in Washington about the “fiscal cliff.” ...
14 years ago
Consultant: Not sure offshore wind farm’s worth cost
It looks like it’s still a no-go for the Fishermen’s Atlantic City Wind Farm. At least that was the conclusion reached by cons ...
14 years ago
14th Police District: Where pain meds are stolen from daycare facilities
This list covers from Dec. 1-11, 2012. Dec. 1 4:50 a.m. Aggravated Assault: 200 block of W. Upsal St. Comp ...
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Newtown aftermath: Glints of sunlight on the gun front
Here’s a Newtown six-year-old, commenting about slain friend Jack Pinto: “We just played all the time. I can ...
14 years ago
Body discovered days after Delaware fire
Fire investigators discovered a body buried beneath the rubble of a burned out house in Wilmington four days after the fire had been exti ...
14 years ago