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NewsWorks reader/contributor Bob Shipman sent the photo below from Holy Nation Baptist Church in North Philadelphia. Pictured are ...

Fine dining is getting finer — and more expensive. Restauranteur Marc Vetri is scaling back on seating at the popular Vetri restaur ...

Will the real Michael Vick please stand up? Now that his comeback season is over and the NFL will fade from our minds until late s ...

Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood will descend on Philadelphia tomorrow to talk transportation. The pai ...

UPDATE: James Venziale has also pleaded guilty, according to an Associated Press report. he faces five years in prison for his role and i ...

It’s been more than a year since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti. In that time, little has changed for the citizens who neede ...

After announcing the Volunteer Impact Challenge late last month, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has been preaching the value of servic ...

Chester County’s Common Pleas Board of Judges will interview seven county commissioner applicants Wednesday after weeding out the q ...

A potential opponent for Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in the Democratic Primary has bowed out of the race before it even started.&nb ...

New Jersey’s Senate Transportation Committee has advanced a bill that would lower the fines for drivers caught driving without thei ...

New Jersey lawmakers this morning announced plans for a new tunnel project under the Hudson River that could eventually accommodate high ...

Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams announced this morning he won’t be running in the 2012 Philadelphia mayoral election. He hasn’t e ...

More than 3,000 people risked hypothermia over the weekend for the annual Polar Bear Plunge. As Mark Eichmann reports for WHYY, 3,094 peo ...

Did you really think we’d be keeping the Street family out of Philadelphia politics? Milton Street is running for mayor. He’s ...

If the word “ukulele” conjures visions of slow, sleepy Hawaiian music, that’s just where virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro wants you at the ...