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The family of a 5-year-old girl who was abducted from a West Philadelphia classroom and sexually assaulted at a nearby house plans to sue the Philadelphia School District, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday.
A Mullica Hill, N.J., man was found guilty Tuesday of stalking his ex-wife late last year with the help of a GPS device hidden inside her car.
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A Pennsylvania Game Commission coordinator spent yesterday morning inside City Hall's tower banding four healthy baby peregrine falcons.
City Controller Alan Butkovitz defeats two challengers in Democratic primary.
Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place.
Police and wildlife officers are trying to track down a black bear that's been spotted wandering around several residential areas in suburban Philadelphia for days.
The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office did not pursue criminal charges in early 2012 against former Police Officer Richard DeCoatsworth - once hailed as a hero, now charged over the weekend with rape - because the complainant, Steven Kocher, was not considered a credible witness, according to First Assistant District Attorney Edward McCann.
Elvis the kitten has already burned through 9 lives -- and he’s only a year old.
His ordeal has a (mostly) happy ending, but what an ordeal it’s...
Police in a Philadelphia suburb say a man was under the influence when he crashed his vehicle into borough hall.
Interboro School District Interim Superintendent John Cleghorn was busted on YouTube, apparently using a sexist obscenity to describe another board member. He called out sick Monday.
Passenger trains could be running again between Camden and Glassboro by 2019, if someone comes up with $1.6 billion and the current construction schedule doesn't slip.
Jermaine Jackson, the Trenton man accused of masterminding a plot that left Levittown musician Danny DeGennaro dead, was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in Bucks County Court.
Two activists arrested at a pro-marijuana protest on Independence Mall Saturday had different reactions to the same bad news in U.S. District Court yesterday.
On average, about 20 species of common spring plants are flowering a day earlier every decade, Panchen concluded. That scenario is happening across the biological spectrum in ways that could put nature out of sync, worsening pest problems and helping invasive species to flourish.
The family of a 5-year-old girl who was abducted from a West Philadelphia classroom and sexually assaulted at a nearby house plans to sue the Philadelphia School District, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday.
A Mullica Hill, N.J., man was found guilty Tuesday of stalking his ex-wife late last year with the help of a GPS device hidden inside her car.
Paul...
A Chester County man who shot and killed his long-time girlfriend today has been charged with murder.
Gregory Twyman, 44, allegedly gunned down Jamica...
IRS officials gave false or misleading information on numerous occasions regarding its now discredited practice of targeting conservative groups that...
The New Jersey agency entrusted with ensuring access to public records may be Gov. Chris Christie’s biggest ally for keeping a pension scandal...
HARRISBURG – It is hard to believe anyone would want to run the city of Harrisburg.
To say the Pennsylvania capital, hugging the banks of the...
Is anyone really looking for answers?
ProPublica’s job is to report the news rather than to make news ourselves, but sometimes we find an article of ours to be itself a subject of public...
The search through rubble left in the wake of a massive tornado that ripped through an Oklahoma City suburb Monday ramped down as the local fire chief...
Lyle Denniston looks at the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a case involving prayers at government meetings, and if the justices possibly have...
Today and Wednesday are likely to be two of the hottest days of the year so far, and with the volatility comes a chance of isolated or scattered thunderstorms, starting tonight.
Labor issues are plaguing the expanded Center City structure.
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