Season's first freeze recorded, a bit early
The region's rooftops, car hoods, and open fields were coated with white yesterday morning, and for the first time this season the official temperature at Philadelphia International Airport fell below the freezing point, hitting 31 degrees at 4:59 a.m.
HARRISBURG - When it became clear that the state budget was in crisis mode, three industries with much at stake in Harrisburg opened their wallets.
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HARRISBURG - When it became clear that the state budget was in crisis mode, three industries with much at stake in Harrisburg opened their wallets.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Seven-year-old Charlenni Ferreira was like many of the children in Buen Consejo, a worn hillside barrio of boxy concrete homes by the city's edge.
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Luzerne County, down two judges because of a pair of unrelated scandals, is asking lawyers to preside over a glut of civil cases.
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Two men were killed yesterday in separate shootings in Philadelphia.
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State Rep. Sam Rohrer, a champion of abolishing the school property tax in Pennsylvania, is poised to enter what is fast becoming a crowded field of candidates for governor.
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Lawyers and a Philadelphia judge yesterday completed a third day of jury selection, getting the eighth of 12 jurors to hear the murder trial of a North Philadelphia man charged in the Oct. 31, 2007, shooting of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy.
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Gov. Rendell and U.S. Rep. Bob Brady late last night announced a tentative agreement to end the four-day-old transit strike that has paralyzed the region.
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Final settlement of a strip-search lawsuit brought against Philadelphia means 5,321 people will each get compensation of $100 or $1,400, and the attorneys representing them will share $1.7 million in fees.
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Police are investigating whether the shooting of a 17-year-old Philadelphia student on a school bus early yesterday was in retaliation for an incident of bullying.
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Two Michigan men were convicted in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia yesterday of fraudulently gaining control of four small businesses and draining their assets.
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