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A primer on Olympic gymnastics – artistic and trampoline
Gymnastics events have been a part of the summer Olympics since the first modern Games in 1896. There are two main gymnastics cate ...
14 years ago
Delaware school bus vandalism spree causes thousands of dollars in damages
Three juveniles in Delaware face charges they got behind the wheel of several school buses and went on a damaging and costly ride. ...
14 years ago
ACLU seeks data about automatic license plate reader
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among 35 states in which the ACLU is demanding data on how automated license plate readers are being used ...
14 years ago
Germantown gallery show features Middle Eastern portraits, art and music
As rain clouds loomed over Maplewood Mall in Germantown on Saturday, performers played Middle Eastern music into the night. Rather ...
14 years ago
Have you had any red light camera mix-ups?
[UPDATE] A compliance mix-up with a red light camera in southwestern Philadelphia may end up costing the city more than $1 million in los ...
14 years ago
Makeshift meth labs in hotels becoming common, and risky
Philadelphia was one of two cities where impromptu methamphetamine labs in hotel rooms got busted over the weekend. Another was found in ...
14 years ago
Report: Philadelphia lost independent restaurants in past year
With new gatropubs popping up all the time, this news about Philadelphia’s restaurant scene may seem a bit counter-intuitive: The n ...
14 years ago
Delaware vote counting process criticized in report
Delaware’s methodology of counting and verifying votes gets a low ranking in a state-by-state report. The First State joins ...
14 years ago
Coffee to go: Wired Beans and the switch from Mt. Airy to Germantown
In a tour around his Germantown Avenue-area properties in March, developer Ken Weinstein spent several minutes explaining how the Wired B ...
14 years ago
The sounds of Roxborough and what they say about our connection to nature
I set up my laptop and place a microphone on the edge of one of the mesh seats of the aluminum chairs on the back deck of my house in Rox ...
14 years ago
The flareup over Chick-fil-A is classic summer filler, an ephemeral flap that will fade away when real political news returns to the fore ...
14 years ago
More misinformation about Philly election report
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” Mark Twain is said to have observed. ...
14 years ago
Donations to University of Delaware set new records
Donor support to the University of Delaware grew by 19-percent during the 2012 fiscal year, as contributions topped $61 million. D ...
14 years ago
2nd water main break in Philadelphia in a week
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officials had to evacuate two homes after a water main broke in a Philadelphia neighborhood. The rupture Sun ...
14 years ago
Quicking thinking teen takes wheel when grandfather dies
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A 12-year-old New Jersey girl steered a car to safety when her grandfather died at the wheel with his foot ...
14 years ago