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Fmr U.S. Attorney: Fumo trial should lead to reform in Harrisburg
A federal judge has set bail at $2 million for former state Senator Vincent Fumo. A jury convicted the once powerful Democrat of 137 coun ...
16 years ago
NJ towns granted relief from payments to state worker pensions
By: Monica Miller The New Jersey Legislature has approved a bill that will let towns and school postpone about half their payments ...
16 years ago
PA transportation officials release list of stimulus funded projects
By: Scott Detrow Pennsylvania transportation officials have finalized the list of state infrastructure projects that will be funde ...
16 years ago
Charging patients at Philadelphia's "free clinics"
Right now Philadelphia’s city-run health clinics rarely ask uninsured patients to chip in for the cost of their care; that may chan ...
16 years ago
Trains keep running as SEPTA, union continue talks
Contract talks continue today between SEPTA management and the union representing 4,700 bus, trolley, and subway operators in Philadelph ...
16 years ago
Phila. DA's office calls proposed cuts to its budget "devastating"
By: Tom MacDonald Mayor Nutter is proposing a series of cuts as part of the budget he’ll present to City Council on March 19 ...
16 years ago
SEPTA hopes federal stimulus will cure trolley woes
West Philadelphia residents commuting to Center City by trolley have likely noticed significant delays on the city’s subway-surface ...
16 years ago
City pays bills for Safe and Sound's care providers
By: Tom MacDonald Mayor Nutter has made a decision to pay 61 groups owed money by Safe and Sound, a defunct mostly-city funded age ...
16 years ago
Nutter outlines details of property tax hike
By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says he doesn’t want to lay off any police officers or firefighters. But ...
16 years ago
Juror: Fumo had "an obligation to the public"
Former state Senator Vincent Fumo was convicted today on all 137 counts of fraud and obstruction of justice. The former Democratic power ...
16 years ago
NASA spacecraft that were launched decades ago are finally exiting our solar system. What will we discover as they cross the fuzzy bounda ...
16 years ago
Attorney for a shaken Fumo vows appeal
Former state Senator Vincent Fumo was found guilty of all federal corruption charges. The jury announced the verdict this afternoon to a ...
16 years ago
GUILTY: Former State Senator Vince Fumo convicted
As the verdict comes in, Former State Senator Vince Fumo has been found guilty of defrauding the PA State Senate and taxpayers. Additiona ...
16 years ago