Philadelphia
GCC appoints vice president with extensive city planning experience
Turnout was light but the news was big at last Thursday’s Germantown Community Connection quarterly membership meeting at First Pre ...
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Philadelphia: ‘Strategic Challenges Facing America’
Retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal speaks in Center City tonight as part of Widener University’s Philadelphia Speake ...
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Dog shot and killed in owner’s yard in Roxborough
Megan Gambone of Roxborough holds back tears as she tries to figure out a way to explain to her one-year-old daughter why their 55-pound ...
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Police investigate three ‘point of pepper spray’ robberies near Germantown Ave. bank
Philadelphia Police released surveillance video Monday of three “point of pepper spray” robberies of victims who were accoste ...
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Imhotep Charter wins second consecutive state-basketball championship
It took overtime, but the Imhotep Institute Charter High School Panthers basketball team won its second consecutive PIAA AA state ch ...
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Fashion celebrity Carson Kressley cracks up the crowd at Philadelphia University
After strutting down an aisle and pleading with a room of 200 or so to “please sit down”, former “Queer Eye For the Str ...
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Northwest Philly state-rep candidates forum scheduled for Wednesday
The Chew and Belfield Neighbors Club Inc. will host a candidates forum on Wednesday night at the Joseph E. Coleman Regional Library. ...
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Philadelphia City Council unconvinced on Nutter plan for tax assessment changes
Philadelphia City Council will begin hearings Monday on Mayor Michael Nutter’s proposal to overhaul the city’s tax-assessment ...
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Vigil follows Philadelphia rallies calling for arrest of Florida teen’s killer
Philadelphians will hold a candlelight vigil Monday night to honor Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old African American killed in Florida by ...
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Trial begins for Catholic church official charged with reassigning abusive priests
The landmark trial of a Roman Catholic Church official is set to begin in Philadelphia Monday. It will turn a new page in the court battl ...
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Life in Northwest Philly: Geese swimming in Wissahickon Creek
Northwest Philadelphia residents always have the Wissahickon Valley to retreat to get away from the city. This was the scene last week in ...
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Chestnut Hill College begins Steinway Master Artist series
Chestnut Hill College became an “All Steinway” school in January of 2011. It means that the faculty and students will only us ...
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Young writers celebrated at inaugural Pretzel Park event
As a writing professor and author, Elizabeth Mosier says younger children and teenagers seem to already know what she has to teach her co ...
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East Falls businesses say economy is picking back up
After years of a slow economy, many business owners in East Falls feel like things are turning around. Prince Johnakin and Kevin B ...
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Kemble Avenue at-risk housing proposal nixed
Resources for Human Development has pulled out of a controversial plan to create supervised housing for two at-risk groups at the Kemble ...
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