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Wanna drive in Pennsylvania? You’ll have to pay you court fees first. Sen. Mike Stack will announce today legislation that would re ...

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Beam from twin towers now at Pa. fire station

A Bucks County fire company is now home to one of the beams from the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist ...

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Pennsylvania’s 1st Civil War casualty honored

A German immigrant who volunteered to fight in the Civil War but was killed by a mob before reaching the battlefield has been honored as ...

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The Uptown Theater is about to get a new life. The deteriorating theater on North Broad Street near Temple University has been slo ...

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Philadelphia police are still searching for the suspect in an attack that unfolded inside Fairmount Park near Chestnut Hill earlier this ...

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Howard Treatman: Unencumbered, working not to be unknown

On a recent, cold, rainy Saturday morning, volunteers from the Wister Neighborhood Advisory Council are out in full force to clean up Gil ...

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Police say a 14-year-old boy backed a Cadillac Escalade into the Nicole Miller storefront on Main Street on Saturday afternoon. No injuri ...

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Man falls from Atlantic City parking garage

A 22-year old man, who police say accidentally fell from an Atlantic City parking garage, is expected to survive. Atlantic City po ...

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Swing away at Citizens Bank Park for a great cause

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