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Man pleads guilty to stealing boy’s sandwich at gunpoint
A 23-year-old Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to an armed robbery in which he stole a meatball sandwich from a 13-year-old boy. < ...
14 years ago
Delaware more corrupt than New Jersey?
If I were to ask you to name the most corrupt state, you’d probably answer “New Jersey,” right? Fuggettaboutit! After spendi ...
14 years ago
Rubin steps down from Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust
There’s a new CEO at Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust. Ron Rubin has been CEO at PREIT since 1997, known in more re ...
14 years ago
Historic Rittenhouse Town egg dying event
On Sunday, the Historic Rittenhouse Town will host two colonial egg dyeing classes at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Deb Peterson of Past Mast ...
14 years ago
Experts debate extreme solution to morbid childhood obesity at Philly forum
Health-care providers gathered at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia Friday to discuss how they can help the f ...
14 years ago
South Philly parents appeal to Vatican to keep two Catholic schools open
Parents’ rallies, appeals and pleas weren’t enough to convince the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to keep South PhiladelphiaR ...
14 years ago
Do books like ‘The Hunger Games’ make kids want to read?
Now that “The Hunger Games” is in theaters, we’re seeing more stories about th ...
14 years ago
Keep taxes low, preserve core services, emphasis on public safety
Despite a $5.1 million budget deficit, New Castle County executive Paul Clark’s FY2013 budget calls for no tax increase, no service ...
14 years ago
The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear arguments next week on whether the state can increase judges’ health insurance and pension c ...
14 years ago
In a Spring cleaning, home improvement mood these days? Maybe you have some wires, wood, perhaps some tubes or paint left over from your ...
14 years ago
Accountability and corruptibility
Following up on a nationwide survey of the accountability and corruptibility of all 50 states, John Flaherty, president of the Delaware C ...
14 years ago
A year ago, Delaware-based JPMorgan Chase made a commitment to hire 100,000 veterans by 2020. The bank has teamed up with 29 other m ...
14 years ago
The Delaware City refinery has been on line almost a year now. At the time the refinery said it would change the way business is done by ...
14 years ago
Rob Tornoe joins us for his monthly visit to First, and we are going to keep the theme of corruptibility and accountability going with th ...
14 years ago
‘The Onion’ ends print edition in Philadelphia, D.C.
Onion, ye hardly knew ye. The satirical newspaper is cutting ties with Philadelphia, ...
14 years ago