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A mid-day shootout in Grays Ferry leaves one bystander dead
A 45-year old mother of two was fatally shot when a gunfight broke out near her Grays Ferry home. Officials estimate about that t ...
14 years ago
A South Jersey oil spill sends over 100 gallons of diesel oil into the Delaware River
The Coast Guard and clean-up crews were called to the scene of a diesel oil spill on the banks of the Delaware River. A ...
14 years ago
Manayunk’s ‘The Byways’ play rock and roll, Americana style
Fast cars, moonshine and Americana – these are the elements comprising The Byway’s brand of rock music. Their guitarist an ...
14 years ago
Police arrest suspect in Thursday’s bank robbery, bomb threat
The Philadelphia Police have arrested a man suspected in Thursday’s Center City bank robbery and bomb threat. Paul Raffa, the 32 ...
14 years ago
Help set a Guinness Record for Earth Day at Clark Park
By enlisting the help of as many picnickers as possible, The Nature Conservancy hopes to set an international, Guinness World Record this ...
14 years ago
Where do you go for garden-fresh fruits and veggies?
All winter we look forward to the fruits and vegetables of spring and summer. All too often the quality available to us leaves much to be ...
14 years ago
Germantown’s Center in the Park seeking service-to-the-elderly award nominations
The Center in the Park (CIP) is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Marguerite L. Riegel Awards. The award was initiated in 198 ...
14 years ago
Kennett Square shop exhibits a passion for the printed page
In an age of e-books and tablets, Thomas Macaluso’s used and rare books store in Kennett Square stands out as a staunch defender of ...
14 years ago
Nearly two dozen parents of students at William Levering Elementary showed up to the Roxborough school on Thursday night hoping for some ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia region among U.S. leaders in attracting corporate investment
The Philadelphia region has placed seventh on a list of large metropolitan areas attracting corporate investment. That’s goo ...
14 years ago
School bus crash injures two students in Germantown
According to NewsWorks content partner NBC10, two students were taken to the hospital after the school bus they were on struck a tree on ...
14 years ago
Wistar Institute researchers float new HIV-monitoring strategy
Global AIDS experts say “in these economic times” they’re looking for ways to get more HIV positive people into treatme ...
14 years ago
Access to 52,000 testimonials of Holocaust survivors now available at Penn
The largest collection of Holocaust survivor testimonials on video is now publicly accessible at the University of Pennsylvania. T ...
14 years ago
AP Exclusive: How Del. got rare execution drugs
Just days before a manufacturer cracked down on the use of a key execution drug last year, Delaware was able to get a shipment of the s ...
14 years ago