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Montco officials investigate ambulance theft
Someone in Montgomery County needed to borrow an ambulance today. An ambulance was stolen from outside the Department of Public We ...
14 years ago
Christie says he’s open to 2016 presidential bid
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he’s open to running for president in four years if the job is open. The first-term GOP ...
14 years ago
Trenton to launch new drug and alcohol abuse screening with federal grant
New Jersey just won $7.5 million over five years to implement a new screening program for drug and alcohol abuse in Trenton. Dr. K ...
14 years ago
Pa. releases list of 414 worst-performing schools
The state Education Department has published a list of Pennsylvania’s lowest-achieving schools, whose students may now qualify fo ...
14 years ago
Report: Area venture-capital funding at lowest level since ’96
When it comes to venture capital, the Philadelphia region is no Silicon Valley. But according to ...
14 years ago
More truth and lies in politics
Here’s where both presidential campaigns again twisted quotes for their own ends. In a ...
14 years ago
Biden cheers firefighters — but withholds support on arbitration award
Vice President Joe Biden came to Philadelphia Wednesday to speak to the International Association of Firefighters convention. Bide ...
14 years ago
Singing the Olympics blues? Or still carrying a torch for London 2012?
WHYY producer Elizabeth Perez-Luna shared with me recently a confession about the 2012 Olympics: R ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia vacant lot improved
The imaginations of Philadelphians have been set free by the Mural Arts Program. ...
14 years ago
N.J. red-light cameras back in business
All of New Jersey’s red-light cameras are now certified as operating properly. Police temporarily halted issuing tickets at ...
14 years ago
Ira Stahl is an electrician. And an inventor. And a magician. But mostly, at heart, he’s an inventor. Stahl was about 12 ...
14 years ago
Pa. solar industry still waiting for fix
This week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a law meant to reinvigorate the solar industry in the Garden State by requiring utilitie ...
14 years ago
Olympic rower now outfits U.S. team
Telling John Strotbeck that he can’t just pushes him further so he can. This was true in the 1980s when he made the ...
14 years ago
Feds act to stop sale of magnetic Buckyballs
The government is taking legal steps to stop the sale of some high-powered desktop toys for adults because children are getting hurt. ...
14 years ago
Cancer rate higher in South Jersey than in North Jersey
An analysis of New Jersey cancer registry data finds South Jersey residents have higher rates of the disease. The big difference i ...
14 years ago