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The smattering of city voters who went to the polls for Tuesday's primary picked 12 would-be judges, including three potential new members of Traffic Court, an institution so steeped in corruption that state lawmakers are trying to abolish it.
Police were investigating the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man late Monday night.
Pennsylvania state police suggested Monday that 21-year-old Matthew R. Royer, missing since leaving Rhode Island on Thursday, might have decided on his own to detour from returning to his Montgomery County home.
For seven area high school seniors whom The Inquirer profiled in a 2008-09 series on their college quest, university life proved an intrinsic search into self, where they would discover new career ambitions, broker a social network, and learn resilience.
Here are the apparent winners of yesterday's judicial primaries:
Common Pleas Court
Democrats
Anne Marie Coyle
Timika Lane
Joe Fernandes
After a bruising campaign, challenger Brett Mandel declines to say if he'll run again.
The biggest polling place row of the day centered on a temporary tattoo.
Party-endorsed candidates won at least 10 or 12 vacant positions on Philadelphia's three courts.
District Attorney Seth Williams faces a challenge in November from Republican Daniel Alvarez.
Michael Waylon Lowe says a product intended to enhance sex permanently disfigured his privates.
A lawyer for the family of a 5-year-old girl abducted from her Philadelphia elementary school says the family is planning to sue the district.
The April 18 death of a 7-month-old child of a Northeast Philadelphia faith-healing couple has been ruled a homicide by the Medical Examiner.
The Ralph Brooks Tot Lot is supposed to be a safe haven for kids in Point Breeze who want to get exercise and stay out of trouble
Postman has a taxing idea
Despite a notably low turnout, local government candidates battled it out Tuesday in primaries across the four Pennsylvania suburban counties, with two Republican incumbents in Bucks County facing primary challenges for row offices.
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.
Philadelphia voters yawned at the municipal primary Tuesday, trickling into polling places in small and unenthusiastic numbers.
"Everywhere I was today, turnout was fairly low," said City Commissioners Cochairman Al Schmidt. No figures would be available until several hours after the polls closed at 8 p.m., but it was clear that only a small fraction of eligible voters had participated.
Commerce Bank founder Vernon Hill 2d's golden parachute deflated Tuesday when a federal jury in Camden determined that it was "legally impossible" for the bank to pay him the $17.2 million he is owed on his employment contract.
Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz handily won the Democratic nomination for a third term Tuesday, defeating two challengers who claimed he has been too close to the Democratic establishment and ineffective as the city's fiscal watchdog.
The smattering of city voters who went to the polls for Tuesday's primary picked 12 would-be judges, including three potential new members of Traffic Court, an institution so steeped in corruption that state lawmakers are trying to abolish it.
Despite a notably low turnout, local government candidates battled it out Tuesday in primaries across the four Pennsylvania suburban counties, with two Republican incumbents in Bucks County facing primary challenges for row offices.
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 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...
For three Main Line high school students, the night was already bad. And it was about to get worse.
It was a quarter to midnight. They were standing in a North Jersey swamp, listening to owl calls.
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