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Schools across Philadelphia are chronically underfunded when it comes to the arts. Several have no art educators at all – and those ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Pennsylvania native John Updike died today of lung cancer. Updike, who grew up near Reading, is known h ...

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is expected to give his budget address next week. With a projected deficit of more than $2 billion dolla ...

Today, members of Casino-Free Philadelphia declared the city’s independence from casinos. The activists have been protesting the Su ...

By: Peter Crimmins A state of emergency is in effect in Coatesville, where authorities say 29 fires have been deliberately set ove ...

The future of a merger between Dow Chemical and Rohm and Haas is in the hands of a Delaware judge today. The $15.4 billion dollar buyout ...

Forgetful, unfocused, fuzzy – many cancer patients report feeling this way. What is it, what causes it? A new study is investigatin ...

“Back-to-basics” month continues on SkyTalk as Derrick Pitts and WHYY’s Dave Heller examine how we see the universe. Ho ...