Philadelphia
After chilling testimony, former Ogontz Avenue deacon held for trial on child-rape charges
(Warning: This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual crimes.) Three young women took to a Criminal Justice Cen ...
14 years ago
Hughes, Kitchen and Cohen protest the reinstatement of food stamp asset tests
Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare estimated that 36,000 of the 1.8 million Pennsylvanians who receive food stamp assistan ...
14 years ago
Membership decline in the Chestnut Hill Community Association a growing concern
As the Chestnut Hill Community Association (CHCA) looks to make the final touches on their budget report, the issue of long term revenues ...
14 years ago
Volunteers at St. James School keep students’ spirits high and curiosity piqued
The small chapel of the St. James School’s former church building, which hosts the morning meeting for 16 fifth-graders, features a ...
14 years ago
How Mt. Airy’s ‘Food for All’ got in trouble and how its customers saved it
Customers of a Northwest Philadelphia store are pledging $50,000 in loans to keep it open. Food for All Market in Mt. Airy announc ...
14 years ago
Chew & Belfield Neighbors Club talks neighborhood clean-up, school expansion
Gathering at the Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library for their first meeting of the new year on Wednesday night, members of the ...
14 years ago
Double trouble for bus company Double Happyness
The federal government told a locally-based commuter-bus company Thursday to cease operations. Double Happyness Inc. of Huntingdon ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia controller says school distict In huge financial hole
Philadelphia’s city controller has some serious concerns about the school district’s finances. City Controller Alan Bu ...
14 years ago
Ukrainian youth hockey coach charged in Mt. Airy sex assault of 14-year-old boy
A federal grand jury today ...
14 years ago
Councilwoman Bass honors co-ops while Jones vows to ‘say more by saying less’
With six new members and a first-year president, Philadelphia’s City Council formally, and jovially, commenced its 2012 legislative ...
14 years ago
U.S. Agriculture chief blasts Pa. plan to limit food stamps
U.S Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited Philadelphia Thursday to talk about initiatives outlined in President Obama’s State o ...
14 years ago
First day jitters at Philadelphia City Council
Philadelphia City Council has returned from recess and it was the first real day for six new Councilmembers. The council session s ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia may have later “last call” to help schools
Philadelphia City Council is back up and running. Among the first bills introduced was one to keep bars open an extra hour. ...
14 years ago
Student Task Force discusses public safety strategies for rowdy rentals
The College Student Task Force held its second meeting in Roxborough on Wednesday night to begin brainstorming strategies to curb or curt ...
14 years ago
5th Police District: Man assaulted with brass knuckles on Domino Lane
This list covers Jan. 9 – Jan. 22 January 9, 2011 5700 block Ridge Ave. – 15″ laptop and laptop ...
14 years ago