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Community outrage over a planned strip mall development in Germantown continued to flare Thursday night during a heated face to face meet ...

The School Reform Commission has approved the Green Woods Charter School’s application for an enrollment expansion, putting into pl ...

Drivers traveling along Bells Mill Road from Ridge Avenue to Germantown Avenue will experience temporarily closures for two weeks startin ...

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 ...

Food marketers are under mounting pressure to either change their advertising tactics aimed at kids, or the foods they promote to young p ...

As WHYY’s Lizz Fiedler reported earlier, a dozen mental health counselors from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Red Cro ...

Acme Markets announced this week plans to lay off about 900 part-time employees in the Philadelphia region. As those layoffs loom, worke ...

The Pennsylvania SPCA reports its humane law officers are on site right now removing animals from a home in Kensington. So far, fi ...

Senate Republicans and Gov. Tom Corbett have agreed on a framework for a school vouchers bill. The understanding, reached earlier this we ...

A 27-year-old man from the Philadelphia area has been sentenced for having child pornography on his computer.  Charles Lefebvre, for ...

Hoping for a slow, easy Sunday? Sorry. Four major events in the area could snag your weekend errands. West, North, South and Cente ...

About a dozen mental health counselors from the Philadelphia area are preparing to go to the South to help tornado survivors. American Re ...

Every year, Lorie Phillis does one scary thing. This year, she flew on a trapeze over a vacant lot on Broad Street. The scary part, she s ...

Today is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, and more than 5,300 sites across the country have joined the effort to collect and dis ...

To increase awareness about brain tumors and the signs leading to diagnosis, Delaware’s Kelly Heinz-Grundner Brain Tumor Foundation ...