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Philly agrees to monitoring of police stops
Following settlement of a lawsuit challenging the practice known as “stop and frisk,” Philadelphia officials have agreed to h ...
15 years ago
Urban Guerillas capture the local music scene
Urban Guerilla Orchestra (U.G.O) is a Philadelphia based band of instrumentalists and vocalists. They play a combination of classic pop, ...
15 years ago
Chris Christie and our prejudice against fat
This essay is part of the That’s History series, a partnership between NewsWorks and the ...
15 years ago
A marijuana bust in Delaware City Tuesday yielded about $2,000 worth of marijuana plants, buds and seeds. Police arrested the husb ...
15 years ago
Massive sports bar part of plan for former Spectrum site
A shipment of steel has arrived at the site where the Spectrum sports arena once stood. The steel will figure in constructing the framewo ...
15 years ago
The final report released today by the National Transportation Safety Board on last summer’s duck boat crashed revealed the cause: ...
15 years ago
Lawmakers quietly craft N.J. budget as deadline nears
With a little more than a week until the start of the new fiscal year, there’s still no agreement on a state budget for New Jersey. ...
15 years ago
Council still asking Delaware County SPCA to extend animal control services
Delaware County Council has apparently not acquainted itself with the “no means no” phrase. Council members sent another requ ...
15 years ago
List: Top schools in the tri-state area according to Newsweek
SAT scores, graduation rates and student/teacher ratio all factored into Newsweek’s ranking of the country’s best schools. ...
15 years ago
St. Joe’s students create water filter meant for developing nations
If a water filtration system developed by a group of St. Joe’s University students does what they hope it’ll do, the filters ...
15 years ago
CHOP adds services with new Abington Memorial Hospital facility
The 4,600-sq. ft. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Specialty Care Center at Abington Memorial Hospital opened last week as part of C ...
15 years ago
N.J. Gov. Christie counts on Democratic coalition
The New Jersey Assembly will decide Thursday whether to give final legislative approval to a bill requiring public employees to contribut ...
15 years ago
Yuengling beer will expand to Ohio
Pennsylvania-based Yuengling beer has announced plans to expand into Ohio. D.G. Yuengling & Son of Pottsville is the nation ...
15 years ago
Delaware leaders calling for drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan
President Barack Obama is scheduled to address the nation Wednesday night about withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan. The ...
15 years ago
SEPTA estimates cost of different smart card payment options
SEPTA smart card designs went on display in April, but the transit authority is still deciding what’s the best way to implement the ...
15 years ago