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Philadelphia’s prisons are less crowded than they used to be, but some of the progress Mayor Michael Nutter made early in ...

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The Mummers Parade in Philadelphia had a twist Thursday. Whereas in past years the strutting started in South Philly and moved north, thi ...

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There are lots of ways to measure a city’s health and vitality. Job growth, satisfaction with the quality of life and crime r ...

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A new group called Muslims Organized Against Police Brutality is staging a rally Saturday in Center City Philadelphia. Coordinator ...

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Cursing. Blocking the front aisle. Taking up two seats. SEPTA launched an ad campaign in September aimed at cracking down on such ...

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Compared with this time last year, the Delaware Valley has gotten very little snowfall. That’s good news for the Pennsylvani ...

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Last year, the number of homicides in Philadelphia dropped to a 46-year low. The city is on track to end 2014 with roughly the same ...

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Philadelphia has come under fire in recent years for doing a lousy job collecting property taxes. The problem has been the subject ...

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Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Tom Wolf is continuing to sound the alarm about the state’s fiscal woes. At a press conference in Ph ...

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Three adults who allegedly assaulted a gay couple in Philadelphia in September are due in court Tuesday morning for a preliminary hearing ...

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Millionaire Tom Knox may be endorsing Democratic state Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams for Philadelphia mayor next year, but that doesn’ ...

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Two Philadelphia millennials are running as Democrats for at-large City Council seats. Isaiah Thomas, a 30-year-old adjunct profes ...

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