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New award honors Peggy Amsterdam, a champion of the arts
Peggy Amsterdam led the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance until she died of cancer last year, the day after Christmas. ...
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N.J. steps up weatherization efforts
New Jersey is stepping up efforts to help low income-residents weatherize their homes.A July audit showed the state spent only five perce ...
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A better sidewalk / Aaron Moselle
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Veteran Philadelphia political operative Pete Truman won’t go to jail after all. Even though he pled guilty to tax evasion last ...
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400 jobs saved at Bensalem mail-order facility; 500 others let go
A labor agreement reached Friday will allow 400 employees at a mail-order-pharmacy facility in Bensalem to keep their jobs. But 500 worke ...
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Come spring, women will be well represented at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The school and museum have received 400 works by wo ...
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Rosemont dean to run Commission on Literacy
Philadelphia’s Commission on Literacy has a new chief. She thinks illiteracy is a big factor in the city’s unemployment rate. ...
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Fighting longer sentence, Fumo also seeks new trial
Convicted former state senator Vincent Fumo is fighting efforts by federal prosecutors to lengthen his sentence. And the once mighty powe ...
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Unconscious woman at HUP identified after four months
The family of an unconscious woman who has been at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for four months finally found her Sunda ...
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Mayor Michael Nutter today appointed Judith Renyi as the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy. The two were ava ...
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A thief made off this morning with a truck and a safe from the Pennsylvania SPCA. A man claiming to have an injured dog arrived at the Hu ...
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New Jersey senators today voted to require Gov. Chris Christie to rewrite medical marijuana regulations to better suit patients’ ne ...
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Nancy and Walter Herman’s property has been vandalized nearly 600 times. The Main Line couple says signs on their lawn supporting t ...
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Oberly confirmed as new U.S. Attorney
Charles Oberly III is the U.S. Attorney for Delaware. The vote came Friday in the U.S. Senate. Oberly is the three time forme ...
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