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New Jersey Assembly approves tougher penalties for killing a police dog
A bill that advanced in New Jersey yesterday would create tougher penalties for killing a police dog. “Schultz’s Law,” ...
15 years ago
Fishtown store prompts councilman’s push for pawn shop legislation
What began with a cash-for-gold store in Fishtown has sparked legislation that could change how business and zoning are conducted in the ...
15 years ago
Newspaper apologizes for cutting women from White House photo
Hasidic newspaper Di Tzeitung has apologized for altering a White House photo to run in the paper without images of women. The ultra-Orth ...
15 years ago
8th District question: How to reduce abandoned properties
This is the fourth of 10 questions about issues and priorities that NewsWorks asked the seven Democratic candidates running for the Eight ...
15 years ago
New Jersey bill lowers beach tag prices for services members and their families
The New Jersey Assembly has approved unanimously a bill that would let beach towns charge active service and National Guard members less ...
15 years ago
Molson and Teddie named Water Department spokesdogs
The Philadelphia Water Department now has two new spokedogs to help promote the need to clean up after our pets. Molson, part pit ...
15 years ago
Tony Luke’s opens in Wildwood Crest for 2011 season
There’s a little more Philadelphia down the Shore. Open since November, Tony Luke’s Wildwood is having a grand opening event ...
15 years ago
Court date for woman accused of extorting Campbell Soup heir
Update: O’Brien has pleaded guilty and will get six years’ probation. Her defense attorney says O’Brie ...
15 years ago
Normally, in the absence of Republican bungling, I wouldn’t need to write so much as a syllable about the special congressional ele ...
15 years ago
Philadelphians spread the love for Random Acts of Hospitality Day
We’ve got a sort of holiday happening in Philadelphia today. Mayor Nutter and Ben Franklin kicked off Random Acts of Hospitality Da ...
15 years ago
Toomey shares his 2012 budget plan, School District budget hearing resumes
Good morning, Feeders! ...
15 years ago
More resistant flu found in Delaware
Four more cases of antiviral-resistant influenza have been confirmed in Delaware by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ...
15 years ago
Portion of Spruce Street closed for University of Pennsylvania move-out
It’s move-out day for University of Pennsylvania students. But don’t worry about getting stuck among undergrads bearing boxes ...
15 years ago
Philadelphia teachers picket education budget cuts
Teachers and educational staffers around Philadelphia spent the morning picketing educational budget cuts they say will “undermine ...
15 years ago
Terrorist or tourist? It’s your call
To Laveta Jones, the man videotaping from the window of a Septa train could have been on a terrorist recon mission. In a recent&n ...
15 years ago