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Penn student leaders guilty of hazing
The Undergraduate Assembly at the University of Pennsylvania has been found guilty of violating Penn’s policies governing hazing an ...
14 years ago
Occupy Philly rallying tonight
Remember Occupy Philly? The group claiming to represent “the 99 percent” lives on, months after its eviction from Dilworth Pl ...
14 years ago
Santorum’s daughter admitted to hospital
Correction appended below. No matter what one’s political leanings — and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Sa ...
14 years ago
A fresh chapter for the Roxborough Library
Community members began a beautification project for the Roxborough branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia a few months ago—and it& ...
14 years ago
Mumia Abu-Jamal moved to general population
Former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been moved to the general prison population for the first time since his murder conviction th ...
14 years ago
Drawing from several communities in Northwest Philadelphia, residents and police officials gathered on Thursday for the monthly PSA-1 mee ...
14 years ago
Measles case reported in Delaware
For only the 5th time since 1995 a case of measles has been reported in Delaware. In this case a 6 year old girl from Clayton was ...
14 years ago
Del. River waterfront efforts advance
Even during winter, when relatively few Philadelphians are out enjoying the waterfront, planning continues apace for the renovations revi ...
14 years ago
Feds give Philly schools $64 million
The Philadelphia Public Schools Notebook’s Erika Owens reports that $64.4 million in federal ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia 76ers give kids a chance to play with the pros
Philadelphia 76ers center Spencer Hawes ran calisthenics drills alongside shooting guard Jodie Meeks at one end of the court, supervised ...
14 years ago
N.J.’s new attorney general aims for more diversity among state police
New Jersey officially has 85 new state troopers. Only two African Americans were among the troopers who received their badges afte ...
14 years ago
As unfunded mandate, N.J. anti-bullying law in jeopardy
New Jersey will need to provide some money to save the state’s revised anti-bullying law. In a ruling that cannot be appeale ...
14 years ago
Workers make plans as ConocoPhillips delivers first pink slips in Delco
Layoffs finally began for employees of ConocoPhillips’ idled and embattled refinery in Trainer, Delaware County. Pink slips ...
14 years ago
New City Council session, new rules
Philadelphia City Council got back to work last week. The new session comes with new rules, which came with some testy exchanges with the ...
14 years ago