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Police to remind residents of Fairmount and Pennypack park attacks
Eight years to the day after the first of three women was attacked by a man in Fairmount Park, the Philadelphia Police will be out and ab
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Fundraiser serves up $850,000 for Arthur Ashe tennis center
Nearly 1,000 people packed inside the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Center (AAYTE) in East Falls on Friday for the center’
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14 years ago
PIFA concludes with massive street festival
The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts concluded with festivities that included a Ferris wheel, circus performers dangling 1
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Christina School District rescinds vote and avoids Race to the Top funding confrontation
Saying it had to look at the well-being of the whole school district, the Christina School board Saturday voted to rescind a controversia
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Flowers are pretty for a reason
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Wedding over, crisis continues. Gold, silver soar.
I enjoyed the elegant distraction of the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, which was greatly enhanced by the technical
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Feds order N.J. Gov. Christie to repay $271 from the tunnel plan he scrapped
The legal fees are mounting in Gov. Christie’s battle to avoid repaying t
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Philly cops on summer watch for texters behind the wheel
Keep your thumbs on the wheel, or risk getting nabbed in the Philadelphia P
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A royal dragon boat celebration
In honor of the royal wedding of Kate Middleton, a fellow dragonboater, 30 women from the Schuylkill Dragons paddled on the river in fanc
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Community members line up to express disdain for development plan
Community outrage over a planned strip mall development in Germantown continued to flare Thursday night during a heated face to face meet
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SRC gives Green Woods the green light to expand
The School Reform Commission has approved the Green Woods Charter School’s application for an enrollment expansion, putting into pl
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14 years ago
Section of Bells Mill Road to close temporarily
Drivers traveling along Bells Mill Road from Ridge Avenue to Germantown Avenue will experience temporarily closures for two weeks startin
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Posting will be a little thinner than normal over the next week when I’m busy pitching on the air for WHYY’s spring fundraisi
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Food fight: Feds aim to cut ads targeting kids
Food marketers are under mounting pressure to either change their advertising tactics aimed at kids, or the foods they promote to young p
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