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New Commish, and other local matters
It’s looking like Philly’s top cop Chuck Ramsey may be ...
14 years ago
Company tapped to run Martin Luther King High School backs out
Less than a day after the Philadelphia School Reform Commission picked Mosaica Education Inc. to run Martin Luther King High School as a ...
14 years ago
MLK update: Mosaica out, Foundations in – Evans claims credit
Mosaica Turnaround Partners announced Thursday that they have withdrawn as the turnaround provider for Martin Luther King High School, le ...
14 years ago
Japanese student at Delaware organizing local relief effort
Nearly 7-thousand miles away, Japanese students at the University of Delaware can’t help but worry about their families back home. ...
14 years ago
Mosaica withdraws from MLK; school district press release
The School District of Philadelphia ...
14 years ago
CHOP stands by grant from beverage industry
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is taking criticism for a $10 million grant it received for childhood obesity prevention an ...
14 years ago
Suspect descriptions released in post office robbery
Police are developing some leads into yesterday’s armed robbery of the post office in Chestnut Hill. But as of Thursday afternoon t ...
14 years ago
Jumping through hoops to get into college
Applications, visits, interviews, essays. And then of course, financial aid. Andrew Ferguson is on Radio Times this morning talking about ...
14 years ago
Laid-off police, firefighters elated some will be back on the job
Camden Mayor Dana Redd said Thursday she will use $2.5 million from the South Jersey Port Corporation to put some laid-off police officer ...
14 years ago
Ever hear of the Double Irish? Believe it or not, it’s a name given by tax specialists to a slick maneuver that companies li ...
14 years ago
Send your March Madness photos to the Feed
Temple just squeaked in a 66-64 NCAA win over Penn State. The Temp ...
14 years ago
Adolescence, now twice as long
They have been called “twixters” “adult-escents” or the “boomerang generation,” young adults of the u ...
14 years ago
Slideshow: Weather brings people outside to enjoy St. Patty’s Day
How did you celebrate St. Patty’s Day? Bars around Old City/Callowhill were packed today with green-wearing, shamrock-bearing patro ...
14 years ago
Deceased didn’t notice gas smell before Allentown explosion
Beatrice Hall was on the phone with a friend last month when the line went dead. An explosion rocked Hall’s Allentown home, killing ...
14 years ago
ShopRite coming to former Tastykake site; ground breaks next week
The shopping center slated for the old Tasty Baking Co. will still have Tastykakes in it. A ShopRite will anchor the 220,000-sq. ft. cent ...
14 years ago