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West Oak Lane hopes to become new gateway to Northwest Philadelphia
In the sprawling, moving jigsaw puzzle that is the upper Ogontz Avenue area, where the city meets Montgomery County, 2504 W. Cheltenham A ...
15 years ago
Corbett’s pick for Pa. attorney general advances
Gov. Tom Corbett’s pick to replace him as Pennsylvania attorney general has cleared a key hurdle, winning approval from the state S ...
15 years ago
War-weary Afghans weave threads of violence into rugs
Afghanistan has a tradition of weaving rugs that goes back thousands of years. On the tables of tribal leaders and under the knees of hum ...
15 years ago
Celebrating a 1921 anti-automobile protest in Fairmount Park
This article is a revised version of an earlier story. There were hikers, bikers, doggie-walkers, joggers, bruncher ...
15 years ago
Student designers take to the runway at 2011 Fashion Show
This Saturday, buried within the massive PIFA crowd, Philadelphia University held its annual fashion show and Spirit of Innovation Gala. ...
15 years ago
Hundreds visit Flight 93 crash site
About 800 people made their way to the Flight 93 Memorial in southwestern Pennsylvania Monday, the day after the death of Osama bin Laden ...
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The president trumps a critic, and local matters
If you were getting quietly steamed listening to Donald Trump repeat every discredited allegation about President Obama’s birth, yo ...
15 years ago
Reaction to demise of bin Laden mixed in N.J.
There is mixed reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden in New Jersey, the home of a quarter of those who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, ...
15 years ago