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Philadelphia growing local apps
Traffic and other applications for smart phones show you may have to pay for information on your phone that is free on the World Wide Web ...
15 years ago
Health clinics benefit from stimulus and health dollars
Federal health officials visited a community health center in Wilmington today to highlight the flood of federal funds coming to these cl ...
15 years ago
Bringing emergency room care closer to home
Residents in northern Kent County will soon be a lot closer to emergency room doctors once Bayhealth Medical Center’s new ER is com ...
15 years ago
Philadelphia projects waiting for Harrisburg dollars
Transit and highway plans are on hold while Governor Ed Rendell and the Pennsylvania Legislature try to work out a deal. A transpo ...
15 years ago
George W. Bush declared on May 1, 2003 that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended,” an infamous boast that missed the m ...
15 years ago
Coping with other people’s grief
The recent death of a young man living in a Pennsylvania residential facility for people with disabilities has resulted in criminal charg ...
15 years ago
Philadelphia man dies over religion in Pakistan
A Philadelphia man was murdered in Pakistan Thursday in what relatives say is a case of religious persecution. Habibur Rehman ...
15 years ago
New Jersey schools graduate more African American males than most states
A new study finds New Jersey is among the states that have the highest percentage of black male students graduating from high school ...
15 years ago
Find a friend, meet for dinner and hit the Fringe: technology can help
The program guides for the upcoming Philly Fringe festival have been on the streets for a few weeks now. The thick book of 1000 perf ...
15 years ago
Greene says he looks forward to clearing up accusations
Philadelphia Housing Authority Executive Director Carl Greene is speaking out, responding to numerous allegations against him that s ...
15 years ago
As troops pull out of Iraq, some Pa. soldiers remain
The last combat brigade has left Iraq well ahead of President Obama’s August 31 deadline. But the U-S presence in Iraq continu ...
15 years ago
Unknown cause for rectal cancer increase
Cancer doctors are scratching their heads over findings published today, showing rectal cancer rates among people under age 40 doubled ov ...
15 years ago
It’s been 33 years since Voyager 2 lifted off into space
Photo: NASA The summer season has a few weeks to go, but you can tell that sunsets are coming a lot earlier now, about 8pm. T ...
15 years ago