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Parking lot workers make poverty wages as the industry rakes in profits in Philadelphia, according to a new report.

Farm animal legislation passed in 2004 placed restrictions on what people could keep in areas smaller than three acres — an attempt to crackdown on backyard farms.

The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of a 52-year-old man who fell ill on a cruise ship off New Jersey on Tuesday. 

Fran Dunphy coached 17 years at Penn before replacing John Chaney at Temple in 2006. The pass-the-torch moment to Aaron McKie could come on Tuesday night against Belmont.

Facebook will overhaul its ad-targeting systems to prevent discrimination in housing, credit and employment ads as part of a legal settlement.

The program awards lending capital and grants to community development financial institutions, which then offer financial products to diverse small business owners.

In 2003-2004, he was named AP coach of the year after leading the Hawks to an undefeated season.

300 homeless Philadelphians might be back on the street this month.

More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the water.

With all that’s going on in the world—from climate change to wanton violence and political turmoil—I simply don’t have the energy to watch Saturday Night Live. 

Some activists say their concerns about a possible connection arise out of a culture of fear that persists in Ferguson 4 ½ years after Michael Brown's death.

Critics say giving the assailants notoriety offers little to help understand the attacks and instead fuels celebrity-style coverage that encourages future attacks.

History shows sanctuaries are not immune from violence, as illustrated by bombings at African-American churches during the Civil Rights era.

Washingtonians and a global community of eagle-watchers have been transfixed by Liberty and Justice, bald eagles who've nested and raised eaglets together for 14 years.

Thousands mourned the Ethiopian plane crash victims on Sunday, accompanying 17 empty caskets draped in the national flag through the streets of the capital.