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Councilwoman Bass honors African American firefighters’ group at heated Thursday meeting
On Thursday morning, members of Philadelphia’s firefighters union packed City Council chambers to rail against the department’ ...
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Mt. Airy Art Garage hosts first-ever ‘Jazz Jam Session’
For more than three hours Wednesday night, jazzy tunes and genre standards bounced off the walls of the Mt. Airy Art Garage. MAAG& ...
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A new exhibit in Trenton uses small works of art to tell a bigger story
This is part of a series from Ilene Dube of The Artful Blogger. Recent footage of the Jersey Shore shows it torn asu ...
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Delaware Children’s Dept. addresses teen suicides in budget proposal
The Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and their Families today outlined its fiscal year 2014 budget requests. Ca ...
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Are spiteful ‘haters’ to blame for an unsolved parrot-napping in Nicetown?
Josie couldn’t fly, but she could say “hello.” A Hunting Park household is grieving over the loss of its beloved ...
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Memory of friends lost to colon cancer inspires first-time marathoner
Logan Square resident Craig Schwartz doesn’t like to run. Yet he’s signed up for the Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday. ...
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Did gerrymandering rob Pa Democrats of Congressional seats?
When Pennsylvania’s Congressional boundaries were re-drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature last year, Democrats complained ...
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Judge OK’s sale of former Solyndra headquarters
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of failed solar power company Solyndra’s former headquarters to Seagate Technolog ...
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Philadelphia marathoner to run on anniversary of heart surgery — again
On Nov. 17, 2008, I lay on an operating table undergoing open heart surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Four years late ...
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Cherry Hill mayor moves to ban smoking on public land
Thursday is the American Cancer Society’s 37th annual Great American Smokeout — a day health officials remind us that tobacco ...
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Former Philadelphia cop charged with assault
A fired Philadelphia Police Lieutenant is now officially facing criminal charges for what he did after this year’s Puerto Rican Day ...
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Philadelphia firefighters will get hearing in City Council on transfers
A change that will transfer senior Philadelphia Firefighters to new assignments will receive a review in Philadelphia City Council. < ...
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Man accused in Patz case makes court appearance
The man charged with killing a New York City boy in 1979 has appeared in court in a case that catalyzed the missing-children’s move ...
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Nemours hospital project on target; Delaware patients soon to see benefits
The expansion of the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington has been under way for the past 15 months and project l ...
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Delaware groups team up to prevent food waste
The Food Bank of Delaware and Kenny Family ShopRite stores have both signed on to an agreement with the EPA to donate and divert as much ...
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