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PHILADELPHIA (AFP) - If walls could talk, Philadelphia would be abuzz with the stories ringing out from its murals. The historic colonial city is home to the nation's biggest public art project, and is redefining its urban fabric one mural at a time. Duration: 02:05
Campus Inq: A higher education professor at Penn found that historically black universities are becoming more diverse and continue to face challenges.
In West Chester and college towns across the state, there's never a short supply of alcohol - or patrons bellying up to the bar.
An airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.
John Doerffel never thought his clothes would land him in the internal suspension room for a half-day, but that's what happened to the William Tennent High School senior this week.
Authorities say a 6-year-old boy died after he was kicked in the throat by a pony on a south-central Pennsylvania farm.
A 42-year-old Camden man was killed Friday morning when a concrete partition at a city recycling center fell on him. It was the second fatal accident at the facility this year.
A Mega Millions jackpot advertised at $190 million has been won by two tickets, one sold in New Jersey, the other in Virginia.
They matched all the...
Terrell Antrom has a dollar sign the color of blood tattooed between his eyes - fitting, perhaps, for a suspected drug dealer who police say gunned down two innocent people last year.
A woman who lived with a Delaware pediatrician accused of waterboarding her 11-year-old daughter has agreed to plead guilty to child endangerment charges and testify against him.
Harrisburg views Philadelphia "as a cesspool," he said, so the district must change.
Anna Henderson, the sixth-oldest American, has experienced more than a century of change.
When he wore that slouch hat and blue frock coat 150 years ago, Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade faced a crucial choice that could affect the outcome of the Civil War: Fight or flee?
HERSHEY, Pa. - There was no military honor guard. No flag-draped casket. No politicians pontificating.
Instead, the life of Pennsylvania's 36th governor, George M. Leader, was celebrated Thursday with family memories, a haunting rendition of "We Shall Overcome," and lines of his own poetry - as he had scripted his own funeral, years ago.
An investment group led by George E. Norcross III and Ira Lubert announced Saturday that it will bid on the bankrupt Woodcrest Country Club, adding a new player into the mix of potential owners of the Cherry Hill golf course.
Gov. Corbett urged Villanova Law School graduates Friday to embody the passion of Abraham Lincoln and the integrity of Sir Thomas More as they embark on their careers.
John Doerffel never thought his clothes would land him in the internal suspension room for a half-day, but that's what happened to the William Tennent High School senior this week.
The Delaware River Port Authority has finally concluded its long-running dispute with former corporate secretary John Lawless, two months after a preliminary settlement was reached.
Powerball's record quest will likely benefit.
A Mega Millions jackpot advertised at $190 million has been won by two tickets, one sold in New Jersey, the other in Virginia.
They matched all the...
A train derailment on a regional rail line north of New York City caused Amtrak to suspend its Northeast Regional and Acela Express lines north of Manhattan's...
Angelo J. Errichetti, 84, a former Camden mayor and state senator who was South Jersey's premier Democratic power broker in the decade before his 1981 bribery conviction in the Abscam scandal, has died after a long illness. He had been living in Ventnor, N.J.
Two Philadelphia jails have some of the highest rates in the country of inmates who report being sexually assaulted while incarcerated, according to...
An Episcopal Academy high school student died Thursday night when he crashed his SUV in Radnor.
Paul Lewis Pratt, 18, was a junior on the crew team. His four-man varsity squad was scheduled to row in the Stotesbury Regatta Friday at Boathouse Row in Philadelphia.
The annuity was hiked early this afternoon.
Powerball took another major upward bounce, landing at $600 million, the biggest Powerball jackpot ever.
The cash payout is $376.9 million, second to...
Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.
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