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MLB tightens rules on smokeless tobacco, much to senators’ delight
The MLB Player’s Association today took action against smokeless tobacco, banning it in televised interviews. As part of the col ...
15 years ago
Germantown High School will play Martin Luther King High School Thursday in football, and what better way to get in gear than with a visi ...
15 years ago
Few Garden State businesses see signs of economic improvement
A new survey of New Jersey businesses shows many companies are continuing to struggle. Only about 20 percent of the companies surv ...
15 years ago
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania to get $102 million extension
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman Center extension should be complete by 2014. Plans approved by the ...
15 years ago
NRG switching from coal to natural gas at Delaware plant
The changeover from coal to natural gas will drastically reduce emissions from the Dover Energy Center, while providing enough electricit ...
15 years ago
Andrews will repay campaign fund for $9,000 trip to Scotland
U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews says he’ll pay back the $9,000 he took from his campaign fund for his family to attend a wedding in Scotland. ...
15 years ago
Children of Tacony dungeon suspects placed outside the city by DHS
Three children confirmed by DNA to be the offspring of Tacony “dungeon” suspects Linda Ann Weston and Gregory Thomas have bee ...
15 years ago
Seven new members appointed to Philadelphia Archdiocese board reviewing sex abuse allegations
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has appointed seven new people to the board that reviews sexual abuse allegations. The board is resp ...
15 years ago
Candlelight vigil tonight for cyclist killed in Kensington
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia will hold a candlelight vigil tonight for the cyclist killed Friday by a driver in Kensingt ...
15 years ago
Prison sentence for former Philly TSA agent who pleaded guilty to child porn charges
Former TSA agent Thomas Gordon Jr. will spend 11 years in prison and the rest of his life under supervised release after pleading guilty ...
15 years ago
Pennsylvania opts to develop a state-based health insurance exchange
Pennsylvania will develop a state-based health insurance exchange, rather than having the federal government run the exchange, Health &am ...
15 years ago
Sandusky’s preliminary hearing postponed until mid-December
The preliminary hearing for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been postponed, with a new date set for mid-Dec ...
15 years ago
Committe of Seventy calls on Philadelphia City Commissioners to get to work
There’s much to be done if the City Commissioners office is going to improve itself, and the Committee of Seventy wants the three c ...
15 years ago
Keeping quiet about the public financing for the Inquirer and Daily News
It wasn’t a secret, really. But when the owners of the Inquirer and Daily News announced the papers’ move to the old ...
15 years ago
Drexel student arrested at protests in Egypt
A Drexel University student has been arrested in Cairo. Gregory Porter, from Glenside, is reportedly one of three American students ...
15 years ago