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For teachers, this time of year is a challenge: How can kids learn that ...

In nearly every one of Philadelphia’s older neighborhoods you will find the same thing – bumpy, uneven sidewalks. At the root of ...

Rescuers of injured puppy, Sailor, have collected enough donations to pay for his expensive leg surgery, ...

Police continue to search for a suspect recently i ...

In his report, “Amid Tragedy, Tucson shows what it’s made of,” NPR’s Scott Simon reflects on the courageous acts ...

The awful moment in Tucson a week ago has spawned a national conversation about … the national conversation.   A rough c ...

Neighbors and community members gathered to remember the four who died earlier this week in a Feltonville rowhouse fire at a candle light ...

Health-care advocates want Gov.-elect Tom Corbett to keep AdultBasic running. Protesters delivered a petition to Corbett’s transition ...

The Presidential Palace in downtown Port-au-Prince serves as a daily reminder of the earthquake’s destruction to anyone who walks b ...

The decision by Donna Reed Miller, the Eighth District’s councilwoman since 1996, not to run for re-election this year has set much ...

Community. Culture. Power. Purpose. These words and a handful of others take center stage in a series of paintings which are part ...

In the Cite Soleil slum, the quake wasn’t as harmful as in other areas, simply because there wasn’t much to knock down. Life ...

Gov. Ed Rendell is telling lawmakers to reform Pennsylvania’s death penalty system — or end it. On the last working day of his a ...

Know somebody who’s made a difference and ought to get recognized for it? Nominations for the prestigious Philadelphia Award ...