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Former state Senator Vincent Fumo was found guilty of all federal corruption charges. The jury announced the verdict this afternoon to a ...

As the verdict comes in, Former State Senator Vince Fumo has been found guilty of defrauding the PA State Senate and taxpayers. Additiona ...

By: Scott Detrow Three months ahead of Pennsylvania’s budget deadline, Governor Rendell is urging lawmakers to do everything ...

In 2007, Leonore Annenberg received the Philadelphia Award, the city’s highest civic honor. But following the matriarch’s dea ...

Pennsylvania’s hospital associations says the governor’s plan to provide health insurance to more people won’t work wit ...

WHYY will have coverage of this story throughout the day. Additional details and a chance to comment on this new twist to the Fumo trial ...

By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter makes his budget address to City Council this week. Much of the address will ...

An indoor tobacco farm is under construction in Newark, Delaware. Only these plants don’t carry nicotine, and they aren’t mea ...

By: Tom MacDonald The city of Philadelphia announced this week it has removed close to 250 vehicles from the fleet. Those vehicle ...

By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia’s Mayor says the city is not the impediment to casino construction. The first construction p ...

So far, fund raising efforts to open all of Philadelphia’s pools this summer have fallen short – Mayor Nutter’s Splash ...

By: Scott Detrow A member of the Rendell Administration is voluntarily entering a treatment program two days after an arrest for p ...

A federal jury continues their sixth day of deliberations on Monday in the corruption trial of former state Senator Vincent Fumo. Jurors ...

Mayor Nutter wants to examine the city’s Deferred Retirement Option Plan. Commonly referred to as the “DROP” program, i ...