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Philadelphia has an important jazz history, having launched the careers of John Coltrane and Philly Joe Jones. More recently, the experim ...

One hundred twenty New Jersey troopers are fighting to work past the mandatory retirement age of 55. The troopers have filed a lawsuit ag ...

By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia-area schoolteachers got a unique learning experience today in one of Philadelphia City Hall’s ...

Philadelphia City Councilmembers want to make sure the crisis in the newspaper industry doesn’t make them obsolete. Phi ...

Feel like the only economic news these days is “bad news?” Dave and Frank find out if all this doom and gloom is affecting th ...

The 2nd Annual Philly Beer Week kicks off today with Mayor Nutter once again tapping the first keg. But this year, he’ll be doing i ...

Nine convicts were released from Pennsylvania prisons when DNA evidence proved them innocent. Now the state will launch its own “In ...

Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency board-members say they’re confident cost-cutting measures will continue, despite th ...

A crucial step in balancing Delaware’s budget is now complete. Budget hearings between all state agencies and the joint finance com ...

While Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is a longtime critic of the city’s high taxes, he says it is “virtually impossible ...

By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia officials are satisfied with their response to a test of the city’s Emergency Operations Cent ...

By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia is expanding a program seeking to help workers employed in the city buy homes. WHYY’s Tom Mac ...