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Senate votes down N.J. Turnpike toll hike
The New Jersey Senate voted Thursday to roll back a planned toll increase. The measure directs the New Jersey Turnpike Authority t ...
15 years ago
Legislator wants to downsize Pennsylvania House
Pennsylvania House Speaker Sam Smith is drafting a bill to shrink that legislative chamber. The measure would reduce the state Ho ...
15 years ago
DA picks former candidate for gun task force
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has tapped a former congressional candidate to head his gun violence task force. Last year ...
15 years ago
Looks like John Dougherty, head of Philadelphia’s most politically powerful trade union, is inching toward supporting Mayor Nutter ...
15 years ago
N.J. one of four states to get health insurance waiver
New Jersey is one of four states granted a waiver by the federal government to allow insurance companies to continue to offer low-benefit ...
15 years ago
DRBC sets hearings on gas-drilling regulations
Proponents and critics of natural gas drilling will face off during a set of public hearings this week in upstate Pennsylvania. Th ...
15 years ago
Body found floating in Atlantic City waters
A man walking his dog early Thursday morning got a shock when he discovered the body of an unidentified woman floating in the bay in Atla ...
15 years ago
Housing activist Honkala aims for sheriff’s office
One of Philadelphia’s longtime housing activists is running for sheriff, saying she will halt all evictions based in foreclosures. ...
15 years ago