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Leaders from more than 20 Philadelphia charter schools today joined the school district's campaign to obtain more state and city aid to cover a looming $304 million shortfall.
Jermaine M. Jackson was sentenced to life without parole for masterminding a robbery scheme that ended with the shooting death of a popular Bucks County musician.
Authorities in Montgomery County did some expensive weed whacking recently, cutting about $1 million in high-grade grass from the region's marijuana black market and shutting down an operation they say brought about 3,670 pounds into the area over the last year.
Drowning was the leading cause of deaths during Superstorm Sandy last fall, leading to one-third of all fatalities during the hurricane.
A report issued...
Four Penn State students will serve probation for supplying alcohol to a party where a cheerleader was seriously hurt in a fall from a fifth-floor window.
Authorities say a western Pennsylvania man allegedly chained his 11-year-old stepson to the dinner table after he refused to eat the food on his plate.
Matthew Royer, the 21-year-old Montgomery County boy who disappeared late last week has been found and is safe, Pennsylvania State Police said this morning.
Freebies from Verizon and Comcast could add to the fun of the Memorial Day Weekend.
Making no reference to protesters outside the Westin Hotel, Mayor Nutter welcomed 32 mayors and more than 200 other municipal officials Thursday to a three-day conference on innovation in city got government. The "Mayors' Innovation Summit," cosponsored by the city, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Temple University's Fox School of Business, is designed to let cities share ideas and accomplishments in using technology to improve city services.
A week after Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said he was targeting seniority in the teachers' contract to win support from Republican lawmakers for more state aid for the cash-strapped district, the city's Democratic legislative delegation is scheduled to meet with him Thursday to discuss its concerns.
For nearly a century, the Silent Sentinel watched over the graves of Civil War veterans at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Yeadon and Southwest Philadelphia.
Sepsis strikes up to 750,000 Americans a year, and up to 40 percent of those patients die.
But those cases aren't evenly distributed throughout the...
Philadelphia continues to grow, according to new Census Bureau figures.
The city’s population rose by 9,040 from the one-year period from July...
In a sign that businesses may be shifting to cleaner-burning fuels to power their fleets, a new report suggests that many communities in the metropolitan...
A digital publisher plans to release a newly unearthed novel written by Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck, a long-time Bucks County native until her...
Leaders from more than 20 Philadelphia charter schools today joined the school district's campaign to obtain more state and city aid to cover a looming $304 million shortfall.
Jermaine M. Jackson was sentenced to life without parole for masterminding a robbery scheme that ended with the shooting death of a popular Bucks County musician.
Authorities in Montgomery County did some expensive weed whacking recently, cutting about $1 million in high-grade grass from the region's marijuana black market and shutting down an operation they say brought about 3,670 pounds into the area over the last year.
Pa. and N.J. account for nearly 40 percent of deaths from hurricane
Drowning was the leading cause of deaths during Superstorm Sandy last fall, leading to one-third of all fatalities during the hurricane.
A report issued...
Matthew Royer, the 21-year-old Montgomery County boy who disappeared late last week has been found and is safe, Pennsylvania State Police said this morning.
Verizon offers more content, Comcast gives away hotspot access.
Freebies from Verizon and Comcast could add to the fun of the Memorial Day Weekend.
Making no reference to protesters outside the Westin Hotel, Mayor Nutter welcomed 32 mayors and more than 200 other municipal officials Thursday to a three-day conference on innovation in city got government. The "Mayors' Innovation Summit," cosponsored by the city, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Temple University's Fox School of Business, is designed to let cities share ideas and accomplishments in using technology to improve city services.
Judge rules sidewalk adjacent to shops is private property
A religious group spewing what the owners of One Liberty Place call hate speech against women, whites and gays can no longer demonstrate immediately...
Sepsis strikes up to 750,000 Americans a year, and up to 40 percent of those patients die.
But those cases aren't evenly distributed throughout the...
Philadelphia continues to grow, according to new Census Bureau figures.
The city’s population rose by 9,040 from the one-year period from July...
A beef with a strip club bouncer erupted into high-powered violence when a patron returned with an AK-47 and shot up the club.
Police continued this...
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