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Half of the Philadelphia School District’s Renaissance School applicants qualified to move into the district’s next round of ...

Word out of Pennsylvania’s capitol is Gov.-elect Tom Corbett is taking a bit long to select his transition team. It doesn’t h ...

Kicking a smoking habit is tough. New research says it’s even harder for smokers who buy menthol cigarettes — a type popular ...

Today at 4 p.m., Mayor Nutter will sign legislation to increase penalties for tobacco retailers who sell to minors, and address the city& ...

St. Mary’s Medical Center has purchased a building from the Neshaminy School Board. Neshaminy Middle School, which closed recently, ...

Shootings in West and Southwest Philadelphia mark the city’s 299th and 300th homicides for the year. T ...

New Jersey’s Assembly Appropriations Committee is considering a bill that would allow residents to buy lottery tickets online. Bill ...

Vice President Joe Biden wants to reassure Americans that the White House is closely monitoring terror threats this Christmas.   ...

When’s the last time you whipped out a map book when you got lost on the road? it’s probably been quite some time, given maps ...

Top Republicans say they want to amend Pennsylvania’s gaming laws, and take the revoked Foxwoods casino license away from Philadelp ...

Congress passed a $4.2 billion aid package for September 11th attack victims and emergency workers Wednesday. It provides $1.5 billion to ...

Ten New Jersyans and two Pennsylvanians have been named in the list of the nation’s ...

One local kid has some pretty sweet bragging rights in the Upper Dublin High School hallways: Zach Pfeffer. The Philadelphi ...

As Phillyist continues its Countdown to 2011 with a series of year-in-review lists, the blog appears to be in the Festivus spirit. Today& ...

The Environmental Working Group has found what it calls “unacceptable” levels of hexavalent chromium in tap water around Vill ...