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Northwest Philly dog burnings draw 100 people and pooches to PSPCA rally

After suffering two bullet wounds to the chest, a pit bull named Juice still made it into a loving home. Peg Oppmann’s loving home, ...

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Puerto Ricans in Pa. face extra challenge to get voter IDs

Navigating the process of getting a photo ID to vote in the November presidential elections in Pennsylvania is cumbersome at best. But fo ...

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Veteran officer remembered this morning at the Cathedral Basilica

Funeral services for Philadelphia Police Officer Brian Lorenzo are this morning at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. < ...

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Forest fire contained in south Jersey, arson suspected

Crews have contained a forest fire in a remote section of southern New Jersey’s Hamilton Township, west of Atlantic City. Th ...

14 years ago

East Falls’ Lorene Cary steps down as head of the Art Sanctuary

Fourteen years ago, Lorene Cary sat next her mother during an event where she was publicly introduced as founder and executive director ...

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Devil’s Pool swimmers risk citations in weekend crackdown

Police will begin handing out summary citations this weekend to folks caught cooling off in a popular Northwest Philadelphia swimming hol ...

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Politics & Policy

Latino leaders press Pa. for online Spanish translations of voter ID info

Leaders of Philadelphia’s Latino community will gather Friday to ask Pennsylvania to do a more thorough job of translating voter ID ...

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Weekly Entertainment Guide – Bastille Day Block Party and the return of Rodin

From Center City to the Jersey Shore, we’ve got your week covered. WHYY’s Arts Calendar curator Robin Bloom sorts through hun ...

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Speak Easy

N.J. public schools creating barriers for dyslexic learners

I have three boys. My oldest and youngest are dyslexic. For the past eight years, I have been on a journey to understand dyslexia and edu ...

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Speak Easy

N.J. parents of dyslexic children ready for action

My son is one of those children who suffers needlessly in the classroom day in and day out. Now is the time for educational reform that w ...

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5 Things that made headlines in N.J. this week

A New Jersey city enlisted an outside collection agency, a study was released about the declining health of Barnegat Bay, and Gov. C ...

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Report offers bleak outlook for Barnegat Bay

The outlook for Barnegat Bay is getting bleaker all the time. In a new multiyear study by the Rutgers University Institute of Mari ...

14 years ago

New dance and fitness studio finds its rhythm in Manayunk

Dancer and Manayunk’s Merge Dance Studio founder Christa Campbell doesn’t think working a full day at the office followed by ...

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The restaurants that make up Atlantic City’s past still part of its present

While the recent dining discussions in Atlantic City tend to revolve around the celebrity chefs that ...

14 years ago

Could Mt. Airy have the best garden in Philadelphia?

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) has b ...

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