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A community yard sale with a twist brings a neighborhood together
A unique community yard sale in the Penn/Knox neighborhood tomorrow is set to become the first block party the neighborhood has held in m ...
15 years ago
Delaware man killed by train in Newark
A 39-year-old Newark man was hit and killed by a CSX train around 10:40 Thursday night near the 100 block of Madison Drive in Newark. ...
15 years ago
Hundreds of Pennsylvania inmates could be eligible for reduced sentences
If a federal commission decides to make new cocaine sentencing guidelines retroactive, more than 500 Pennsylvania inmates could become el ...
15 years ago
South Jersey school placed on lockdown when visiting alligator got rough
“When it was all said and done, the man went back home with his alligator.” That is not some strange punchlin ...
15 years ago
A teenager works to kick kidney disease
At 17 years old Melika Roberts has had 49 surgeries. Some have left her hospitalized for weeks, and others have been quick procedu ...
15 years ago
A new organization forms to combat Chelten Plaza development
In the fight over a controversial state-subsidized development in Germantown, some residents in opposition to the project have created a ...
15 years ago
‘One Nation’ tour: an instinctive and smart tactician bides her time
Watching Sarah Palin storm through Philadelphia and Gettysburg this week convinces me that she knows exactly what she’s doing. By ...
15 years ago
Philadelphia district to preserve full-day kindergarten
The School District of Philadelphia will not cut full day kindergarten after all. Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said Friday she w ...
15 years ago
Curbing school violence hinges on caring, not rules or rhetoric
At around 5 o’clock on the Friday before spring break, I shuffled a few papers around and tidied my classroom, ready for a much-deserve ...
15 years ago
