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Like so many other video stores, TLA migrating online
Philadelphia’s TLA video stores are the latest casualty of a national movement toward renting movies by mail or streaming them onli ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia lawyer resigns from Postal Service board during ethics investigation
Philadelphia lawyer Alan Kessler has resigned from the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors as the Office of Inspector General investig ...
14 years ago
Indian restaurant is the latest addition to Wilmington’s LOMA district
Lamb kabobs, curried spinach, tandoori chicken – just some of the new tastes now available at ...
14 years ago
NRC approves cyber security plans at Oyster Creek, Limerick nuke plants
The region’s nuclear plants are prepared to prevent a cyber attack, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ...
14 years ago
Come one, come all, to the cosmic joke otherwise known as The Iowa Straw Poll.On Saturday night, a tiny slice of the Iowa Republican elec ...
14 years ago
Haverford College names interim president
Haverford College — recently named to Forbes’ Best Colleges list — has appointed an interim president as former Preside ...
14 years ago
Section of Pennypack Park to be sprayed for mosquitoes
The mosquito-spraying continues, this time in Pennypack Park. Parts of Chester, Montgomery and Delaware counties have been sprayed ...
14 years ago
Delaware students team up with local university
Everybody wins, especially students, thanks to a new partnership between Delaware’s Colonial School District and Wilmington Univers ...
14 years ago
Reacting to wild markets, Philadelphia pension pulls $50 million from stocks
After Wall Street’s wild ride this week, the board overseeing Philadelphia’s $3.7 billion pension fund is pulling $50 m ...
14 years ago
New Jersey sees increase in percent of multigenerational households
In Camden County, more than 5 percent of households are home to three or more generations. In Gloucester County, it’s 4.86 percent; ...
14 years ago
Midday block party will be bicycle-powered
There’s something even more unique about today’s mid-afternoon block party in Center City. It’s bicycle-powered. ...
14 years ago
City’s free condom campaign passes 1 million mark
Since April, Philadelphia has distributed more than one million free condoms around the city as part of its campaign to help stop the spr ...
14 years ago
Department of Public Welfare official loses car privileges for yelling at woman
Like an unruly teenager, Philip Abromats is without car and parking privileges after lashing out at a woman who took his parking spot. ...
14 years ago
Outgoing freeholder will seek Magazzu’s Cumberland County seat
Instead of stepping back from the Cumberland County, N.J. Freeholder race as planned, James Dunkins will instead run for Lou Magazzu̵ ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia Fire Department takes over as sponsor for state task force
With Harrisburg relinquishing its role as the sponsoring agency of Pennsylvania Task Force One, the Philadelphia Fire Department has step ...
14 years ago