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Mother of Matthew Shepard visits Philly to address conference
The mother of a high-profile hate crime victim is visiting Philadelphia to urge law-enforcement officers and community leaders to find so ...
14 years ago
Complaints over election issues can be lodged online in Pa.
Formal election complaints before, after, and on Election Day in Pennsylvania now can be submitted online. The Nov. 6 election cou ...
14 years ago
Study: ‘Red decal’ for young N.J. drivers has lowered accident rates
Little red decals on New Jersey license plates have stirred up plenty of controversy. But according to a new study, they’ve also pr ...
14 years ago
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy president discusses sustainability efforts at school
Growing up, Dr. Priscilla Sands remembers picking blueberries for pie, earning 10 cents for correctly identifying species in John James A ...
14 years ago
Philly’s Head Start programs could be among casualties of going over fiscal cliff
Bonnie Li says that before her four-year-old daughter, Pearl, started preschool, she was “lost.” “She was very ...
14 years ago
Camden case raises the question: What constitutes a toxic school?
Does a child attending a low-performing New Jersey school district — arguably the state’s lowest-performing district — ...
14 years ago
Facebook’s $100 million gift will soon mean bonuses for exemplary teachers in Newark, N.J.
Two years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million to Newark, New Jersey for its schools. After a slow start, th ...
14 years ago
Pa. residents now have opportunity to rejoin Medicaid
An agreement has been reached in a long-standing dispute over Medicaid eligibility in Pennsylvania. The fight began in July 2 ...
14 years ago
Casey accused of abetting Catholic persecution, and other outside attack ads
Though Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Bob Casey has long been known as an anti-abortion Catholic, he’s among six senators targeted in a har ...
14 years ago