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Heat stroke likely not the cause of police dog’s death
Vets in Galloway Township, N.J., say the death of a police dog there doesn’t appear to be heat-related. Blaze, a 6-year-old German ...
14 years ago
Health-care advocates object to Pa. plan on tobacco fund
With final state budget negotiations set to kick off this week, health-care advocates are making one last pitch to save Pennsylvania̵ ...
14 years ago
Lincoln Drive traffic pattern shift throws off drivers’ routines
Every neighborhood’s got one: the bad intersection people avoid because the light’s too long, no one obeys the stop sign or t ...
14 years ago
S. Africans’ lively faith impresses touring Roxborough teen
By the time Kyle Bone got up to tell his story, he was tired. It was the first weekend of a two-week trip with the Salvation Army’s ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia pushing to license tobacco sellers
Philadelphia City Council has passed a bill mandating a license to sell tobacco products in the city. The bill mandating a license ...
14 years ago
Archdiocese names new abuse victim advocate
Update: NewsWorks’ Dillon Buckley spoke with Johanna Berrigan of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. ...
14 years ago
Nutter’s shotgun wedding with the school district
At 10 minutes before noon, I saw Bob Archie, the chair of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission (the body that everywhere else would ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia City Council moves to revise sick days bill
As Philadelphia City Council continutes its discussion over the paid sick days bill, a revision developed today that would exempt small b ...
14 years ago
More changes for Philadelphia’s proposed sick leave law
Philadelphia’s mandatory sick leave bill has been amended again. The bill mandating sick leave for workers in Philadelphia h ...
14 years ago
Burlington County lowers cat adoption prices to relieve crowded shelter
Similar to an effo ...
14 years ago
Japan considers expanding nuclear evacuation
As Japanese officials work to determine the extent of damage from the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the government is ...
14 years ago
St. Kevin’s parishioners rally to prevent closing
Ahead of a meeting tonight with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, parishioners of St. Kevin’s in Delaware County will rally this aft ...
14 years ago
Educators explain the benefits of full-day kindergarten
Chances are, you cheered along with most others in Philadelphia when the School District announced it had found funding to spare full-day ...
14 years ago
Two guilty pleas in John Bolaris roofie case
Things are looking sunnier for John Bolaris, and it’s not just the heat wave. Two women have entered guilty pleas related to ...
14 years ago