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NGO’s crowd out government in Haiti
As Haiti struggles to recover from last year’s earthquake, the government has less money and control than Non-Governmental Organiza ...
15 years ago
PECO repairing underground cable after manhole explosion
PECO crews are replacing an underground cable following an explosion and fire that started in a manhole cover in Pottstown yesterday. ...
15 years ago
Why Irv Ackelsberg isn’t running for City Council
Irv Ackelsberg won’t run for Philadelphia City Council this time around. But that doesn’t mean the Germantown resident has st ...
15 years ago
Man indicted for false claims on stimulus tax credits
A Philadelphia man has been indicted for using the federal stimulus plan for tax fraud. It’s the first prosecution of this ty ...
15 years ago
Police investigate women for hotel buttocks injections
Police continue to investigate the death of the British woman who died after receiving buttocks injections at a Southwest Philadelphia ho ...
15 years ago
Group seeks to buy Vick dog fighting property
A dog-rescue group in Central Pennsylvania is trying to buy the Virginia property that once housed Michael Vick’s “Bad Newz K ...
15 years ago
New Jersey’s most dangerous pedestrian road is in Burlington County
Burlington County’s Route 130 (Burlington Pike) has been named the most dangerous road for pedestrians in the state. ...
15 years ago
The devastating TV ad credited with sinking Arlen Specter’s re-election hopes last year has won the campaign ad version of an Oscar ...
15 years ago
Sestak ad agency wins award for anti-Specter commercial
Former Congressman Joe Sestak pulled out all the stops to unseat former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. And he’s being awarded for it. ...
15 years ago
Woman gets probation for run-in with 22nd District officer
Remember Naimah Jones? Back in November, she found a man, who turned out to be a cop, poking around her carful of sleeping kids. Jones to ...
15 years ago
Trees removed from Parkway leave neighbors without a buffer
Ever drive down a highway and wonder what it’s like to live within honking distance of the noise? You’ll be wondering that mo ...
15 years ago
Bucks County high school students makes MTV debut Friday
Harry S. Truman High School student Samantha Daughtry didn’t want to be a tomboy anymore. So she turned to MTV for help. Frida ...
15 years ago
Welcome to This Week in Bigotry, the show that highlights the dark side of the American spirit. We take you now to Washington, D ...
15 years ago
Spirit of Philadelphia will complete renovations by spring
Well into the second of its two-phase renovation project, the Spirit of Philadelphia will be ready for cruising again by April. ...
15 years ago
Meeting on strategy for growing the economy
Local business leaders will gather to hear the state’s strategic plan for growing the economy from Delaware’s Economic Develo ...
15 years ago