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Tallying the ‘intangible’ and economic costs of violence in Philly
Philadelphia has the highest murder rate of America’s 10 largest cities. One victim is shot here every seven hours. But there are ...
14 years ago
AG’s office won’t defend N.J. trooper accused of beating disabled man
The New Jersey attorney general’s office will not defend a state trooper accused of beating an intellectually disabled man. Offici ...
14 years ago
State Rep. Youngblood takes issue with new voter ID card available through PennDOT
While debate and litigation continues across Pennsylvania over the voter-ID issue, state Rep. Rosita Youngblood (D-198th) voiced concern ...
14 years ago
The epic struggle for Guadalcanal
A lifetime ago a struggle began that would help shape the world for decades to come. The ranks of the men who served there are thinning r ...
14 years ago
Independent fights to get on ballot in congressional race
An independent is fighting for his political life trying to challenge an incumbent Philadelphia congressman. Jim Foster says he ...
14 years ago
Delaware beach scheduled to reopen
This weekend people can once again head to the beach at Gordons Pond in Cape Henlopen now that piping plovers have finished nesting. ...
14 years ago
Rutgers–Camden genetics researcher receives prestigious award
“Why do we have two arms and two legs and not three of each? Why do we have five fingers and not six?” For Nir Yakoby, ...
14 years ago
Vineland City Council to vote again on federal firefighting funding
Vineland City Council will take a second crack at the federal grant offered for the fire department. Council was deadlocked in a v ...
14 years ago
A check on Delaware’s economy as we head into the fall
One of the debates that continues in Delaware centers on how the private sector is faring. GOP candidates for governor and lieuten ...
14 years ago
Weigh in on union protests in Philadelphia’s Callowhill neighborhood
Tension between union and non-union workers has been heating up at a construction site in Philadelphia’s Loft District, and Ne ...
14 years ago
$30K grant awarded to construct West Oak Lane ‘pedestrian plaza’
Thanks to a $30,000 grant from the city’s Commerce Department, a pedestrian plaza will be built at the intersection of Stenton Aven ...
14 years ago
Pa. high court fast tracks juvenile lifer appeals
Pennsylvania’s highest court is moving quickly to determine how to respond to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that mandatory l ...
14 years ago
Police website becomes most common source for Philly crime tips
Whether the push to change Philadelphia’s stop-snitching culture is working can be (and has been) argued both ways. But numb ...
14 years ago
Survey seeks opinions of Philly’s pedestrians
If you’ve ever so much as crossed a street in Philadelphia, you know there’s room for pedestrian improvement. So to ge ...
14 years ago
San Francisco mayor abandons stop-and-frisk
San Francisco’s mayor has abandoned a police stop and frisk proposal designed to get weapons off the streets. There was an o ...
14 years ago