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Quakers’ future home to feature a ceiling that slides open to the sky
A steady downpour could not dampen the spirits of those gathered to take part in the groundbreaking ceremony for Chestnut Hill Friends Me ...
14 years ago
PATCO to continue quiet car experiment
Train passengers can continue to ride in relative silence between southern New Jersey and Philadelphia. PATCO says it will extend ...
14 years ago
Sports journalist talks about cardiac screenings for student athletes
Sports journalist and author Mark Hyman discusses New Jersey’s bill to enact mandatory cardiac screenings for young athletes. Hyman ...
14 years ago
‘Black Madam’ faces Wednesday preliminary hearing in ‘pumping party’ case
A preliminary hearing for Padge-Victoria Windslowe, the so-called “Black Madam” who was arrested in late February in Germanto ...
14 years ago
Germantown High students open the city’s first in-school ‘bank’ branch
Set to a backdrop of money themed songs by the O’Jays, Donna Summer and Ol Dirty Bastard, Germantown High School hosted a first-of- ...
14 years ago
East Falls thief arrested after returning to crime scene to ask for a job
Here’s one to add to the dumb criminals list: An alleged thief who reportedly robbed Joe Long’s East Falls Auto shop, located ...
14 years ago
Principal reinstated in Camden as part of whisltleblower suit settlement
A former school principal turned whistle-blower is getting his job back, thanks to an arbitration judge’s ruling. The Camden educa ...
14 years ago
Lagging N.J. tax revenues jeopardize Christie income tax-cut plan, Democrats say
New Jersey tax collections are below the projections made by the Christie administration. The latest figures from the New Jersey T ...
14 years ago
Philly church mum on priest until donor complained
Documents from a clergy-abuse trial show Catholic church officials ignored complaints a Philadelphia priest had molested two boys until ...
14 years ago
Move to privatize Pa. prison nursing services fails
Critics of a plan by Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections to outsource the work of its nurses to private companies are breathin ...
14 years ago
Temple, former med school official settle with feds over billing fraud
Temple University and Dr. Joseph Kubacki have settled with the United States in Kubacki’s conviction for improper medical billing. ...
14 years ago
New filing in Pennsylvania voter ID suit
Remember that lawsuit filed to stop Pennsylvania’s voter ID law? Well now there’s a suit to keep it. Eight Pennsylvani ...
14 years ago
Rabid raccoon captured in the Wissahickon after trail attack
A rabid raccoon was captured in Wissahickon Park this week after biting an adult in a public restroom near Roxborough’s Valley Gree ...
14 years ago
Jay-Z will invite Obama to Philly’s Made in America music festival
Nearly 30 performers will be part of Philly’s “Made in America” musical festival Labor Day weekend, but organizer Jay-Z ...
14 years ago
GCC forms new committee to monitor Germantown zoning matters
There are a couple of important things to know about Ernie Freeman, who will chair Germantown Community Connection’s new Planning, ...
14 years ago