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New website’s aim — slimmer, trimmer Fido and Fifi
Do you know your cat or dog is a bit tubby, but are having trouble enforcing the diet your vet recommends? Dr. Grace Long feels yo ...
14 years ago
King Day event raises alarm on immigration crackdown
Immigrant groups in Philadelphia observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a march. The groups convened to protest immigration laws passed ...
14 years ago
South Jersey woman says daughter was denied transplant because of mental disability
A South Jersey woman is fighting the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on a recommendation to deny her three-year-old daughter a ...
14 years ago
Still three contenders for Dems’ Pa. attorney general nod
It’s still a three-way race for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania attorney teneral. None of the candidates could loc ...
14 years ago
Region’s snowfall lowest in year; skiers and resorts make do
It’s been a pretty warm winter here in the Delaware Valley. Tom Thunstrom, editor at PhillyWeather.net, says what many skiers alrea ...
14 years ago
‘Off Mic’ on mass incarceration
Off Mic Blogger and Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies interviews legal scholar Michelle Alexander about her book The New Jim Crow: Ma ...
14 years ago
Northern Liberties’ exclusive swim club under new management
Northern Liberties’ exclusive swim club will undergo a name change and new management in 2012. Philly Chat Chat reports that ...
14 years ago
King Day of Service — hailing and chasing the dream
Thousands turned up Monday morning at a Philadelphia place well known to Dr. Martin Luther King to launch the annual Day of Service in hi ...
14 years ago
Volunteers fan out across Northwest Philadelphia for MLK Day of Service events
From the hallway outside his office in Martin Luther King High School, Principal William Wade could hear the Philadelphia Orchestra warmi ...
14 years ago
Hackers target Zappos in stealing account information
Hackers accessed the account information of 24 million customers of the online shoe retailer Zappos, said CEO Tony Hsieh. ...
14 years ago
Atlantic City offshore wind farm waits for state approval
Fisherman’s Energy of Cape May says it’s waiting for approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to begin construc ...
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Drivers avoid toll roads in New Jersey since increase
The New Jersey Turnpike authority says fewer drivers have been using the state’s two major highways in the first week of the new ye ...
14 years ago
If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would be 83 years old – young enough, potentially, to still be driving some of the ...
14 years ago
Mayor Nutter to speak on non-violence in Kensington
The beating death of Kevin Kless, 23, in Old City marked the 20th homicide in the city of Philadelphia in 2012. Mayor Michael Nutte ...
14 years ago