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Dozens arrested overnight for outstanding parking tickets
The law is catching up with those who’ve ignored their parking tickets for too long. Nearly three dozen people were arrested overni ...
14 years ago
Nutter, Ramsey join fight to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines
Mayor Michael Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey will support today a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines in conjunction ...
14 years ago
Delegation formed to negotiate about Chelten Plaza
Germantown Community Connection, a local civic group, didn’t plan on being the only community group with Fresh Grocer CEO, and deve ...
14 years ago
Old House Fair helps history live on in that old home
She only wanted to know about the wavy lines in the plaster of her 1726 farmhouse. Instead, Barb Seely may have walked away from the Old ...
14 years ago
Pedal-pusher wants to get Philly into sharing bikes
Alison Cohen, the president of Alta Bicycle Share, intends to make inroads in the market where she lives. That would be Philadelph ...
14 years ago
Why that second piece of pie doesn’t taste as sweet
Scientists have known for a decade one of the ways our taste buds detect sweetness. But when lab mice who had that sugar receptor knocked ...
14 years ago
Strings attached to N.J. ‘transitional aid’
Financially distressed towns in New Jersey that want to get extra state aid now must impose tougher restrictions on campaign donations. ...
14 years ago
Kelly: PHA Housing Choice Voucher Program is not closed
UPDATE: PHA has recently changed its website to say that the waitlist for the Housing Choice Voucher Program is closed. Until then, ...
14 years ago
Barnes Foundation moves to dismiss latest suit
The Barnes Foundation has filed a motion to dismiss the latest petition to reopen hearings on the foundation’s move from Merion, Pa ...
14 years ago
Pioneering journalist Thom Greer dies
Thom Greer, who became one of the first African-American journalists to run a major metropolitan newspaper, died today at the age of 69 i ...
14 years ago
Booker T. Washington; a controversial figure of greatness
Lindsay Turner is a winner of the “Achieving Greatness Through Choices” Black History essay contest at the Charles M. Finl ...
14 years ago