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Though he’s not raking in the big bucks like Arlene Ackerman and Charles Ramsey, Chris Christie is doing pretty well for himself. ...

A city council committee approved today a bill that would stiffen dog licensing and neutering laws in Philadelphia. Councilman-at-Large J ...

Here’s something you won’t see very often: A unanimous vote of the Manayunk Neighborhood Council approving a new beer-seller ...

Come summer, kids at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will be able to act as DJ and conduct celebrity interviews thanks to an un ...

The Philadelphia researcher, and Nobel Prize winner, who discovered the hepatitis B virus died this week. Baruch Blumberg isolated ...

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The looming possibility of a federal government shutdown could bring many daily operations to a halt. It could also throw a wrench ...

Gov. Tom Corbett has proposed changes designed to make Pennsylvania’s Medicaid health-care program less expensive. One in si ...

Mayor Michael Nutter has resigned from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority board made some changes in his wake. His resignation is e ...

One arrest has been made in connection with last week’s jewelry heist on Main Street in Manayunk. Raheem Hankerson, 30, turn ...

  For close to a decade, a small vacant lot in Mt. Airy has been a thorn in the collective side of a number of nearby neighbors. ...

Police have arrested Raheem Hankerson in connection with last week’s robbery of a Manayunk jewelry store. Hankerson turned himself ...

Gun control is one of those tricky political subjects that is rarely debated honestly and most often used as a wedge issue to divide vote ...

What great fun it is to behold hypocrisy in action. This is one of those times. As the federal crisis grows more dire, with Republicans t ...

Let’s face it, we’re a town with a narrow reputation: food, sandwiches, baseball. Cue the credits. We know we have goo ...