Marquisha Wilson-Thompson, 18, thought she was showing up for a "simple fight" - meaning no weapons - a month ago outside Lucky's corner store in Upper Darby.
Dozens of children and parents from South Philadelphia gathered yesterday in front of the Barry playground at 18th and Johnston Streets to protest a victim of the city's budget crisis: their local pool.
Special Victims detectives are looking for a heavyset man who has groped four women in South Philadelphia subway corridors and who pushed his latest victim to the ground.
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Police Officer Ashley Hoggard was on patrol in North Philadelphia June 13 when he heard gunshots. Hoggard and his partner, Officer Michael Alexander, rushed to Broad and Somerset Streets, where they found a crowd gathered in front of the Franchise Sports Bar.
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HARRISBURG - House Democrats are making a risky gambit to break the budget deadlock: They're planning to vote Monday on the bare-bones Senate Republican spending plan with a painful $1.7 billion in additional cuts, conceding they don't have the votes for an income-tax increase.
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One hazy afternoon, a green pickup truck pulls in front of Elizabeth Peoples' home in West Oak Lane, and out jumps supervisor Jeff Daniels and two teen workers, all in matching T-shirts. They unload lawn mowers and hedge clippers and begin to maintain the beauty they had created a few weeks earlier.
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The federal judge who is set to sentence former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo rejected Fumo's bid yesterday for a new trial, saying a defense request to explore whether jurors had learned prejudicial facts about Fumo was a mere "fishing expedition."
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Police are looking for four teens in the shooting death Tuesday night of a 17-year-old youth outside his home in Darby Borough.
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Curtis Gregory, a city Commerce Department official, will temporarily lead the Office of Economic Opportunity, Mayor Nutter said yesterday.
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Polar explorer Robert Swan, an international advocate for renewable energy and the protection of Antarctica, is seeking an educator to join his two-week expedition in November.
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A chemical spill prompted authorities to evacuate a science building at St. Joseph's University yesterday while a hazardous-materials team and the Philadelphia Fire Department responded to the scene.
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HARRISBURG - A bill is on the move in the Pennsylvania legislature to punish people caught sending electronic text messages while driving.
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Four busy Philadelphia intersections are set to get traffic-light cameras later this year, the Philadelphia Parking Authority announced yesterday.
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