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By: Phil Gregory While recent polls show no more than 10 percent of New Jersey voters backing independent candidate Chris Daggett ...

The Free Library in Philadelphia has been busy making digital scans of their collection of fraktur, a unique Pennsylvania-Dutch form of f ...

Philadelphia City Council will not vote on Mayor Michael Nutter’s so-called “doomsday” budget. Council President A ...

Preliminary work has already begun for a memorial structure erected on the site of the first President’s House on Independence Mall ...

Recent signs of life for shipping are carrying optimism to Philadelphia’s port. Like most other industries, the global shipp ...

Specialists don’t want to sacrifice pay to primary care docs Despite bitter disputes over the best ways to overhaul the heal ...

Many families and kids dread the end of summer and going back-to-school, and don’t like to think about it until Labor Day. P ...

This has not been a good year for veteran journalists. The obituary sections have been in overdrive mourning the death of Walter Cronkite ...

Gypsy moth populations in the region are being crushed by a surge of deadly fungus. For the second year in a row, a fungus has com ...