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To cut costs Pa. lawmaker reviving efforts to trim Legislature
State Sen. Lloyd Smucker, R-Lancaster , wants to resurrect legislation that would trim the number of state lawmakers. The House late last year passed legislation sponsored ...
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Homeless man gets 8 to 25 years in LOVE Park slaying
A homeless man convicted in the stabbing death of another homeless man in Center City's "LOVE Park" was sentenced to 8 to 25 years in prison Friday by a Philadelphia judge. Frederick ...
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With a nod to Ben Franklin new brewery to open in N. Phila.
Tim Patton and Christina Burris gather around some kegs at their new St. Benjamin Brewing Co. on 5th Street near Cecil B. Moore Avenue in North Philadelphia. The three-barrel nanobrewry is opening ...
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Cop couple mystery First hes shot then shes attacked
SOMETIMES a story changes - even a story about attempted murder. In the days that followed the March 2 shooting of an off-duty cop named Robert Penn, Philadelphia Police Department officials said ...
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Walnut2Walnut events aim to connect people with Phillys rivers
This skiff, Nemo, was built at the Independence Seaport Museum. Some Walnut2Walnut regatta participants will rent boats such as Nemo. (Photo courtesy of Independence Seaport ...
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Good kid slain in E. Germantown
FOR THE REST of her life, Karen Connor's birthday will be bittersweet. Three days after her most recent one was celebrated with family and friends in Atlantic City, her son Tyrek was gunned ...
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Retiree wants to go back to work
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DSU football players charged in U. of Delaware burglaries
Five football players from Delaware State University are charged in two burglaries at the University of Delaware. Top row (left to right): Cameren Judge, Gabriel Sherrod, Rashawn Barrett. Bottom ...
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SRC refuses to pass budget with unacceptable cuts
Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. (left) and School Reform Commission Chairman Bill Green at the SRC meeting. (Steven M. Falk / Staff ...
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Phila. election aide suspended
A city election official who was previously fined by Philadelphia's Board of Ethics for using her office computer to engage in political activity is in hot water again with the same board - and ...
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SRC eschews doomsday vote
IN AN unprecedented move, the School Reform Commission opted yesterday not to vote on a proposed "doomsday" budget that would have required more than 1,000 layoffs, significantly increased ...
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A tree-destroying pest makes its entry into N.J.
A landscaper found the first signs of the destructive pest last week. He was checking the health of ash trees at a strip shopping center in Bridgewater, Somerset County, when he spotted the ...
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Abraham Noordergraaf 84 professor
Abraham Noordergraaf, 84, of Haverford, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, died Saturday, May 24, of esophageal cancer at the Quadrangle. Dr. Noordergraaf served as a mentor, ...
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Francis DiLuzio Sr. 73 youth sports volunteer
Francis J. DiLuzio Sr., 73, of Delran, a community sports volunteer for whom the township celebrated July 24, 2012, as Frank DiLuzio Day, died Tuesday, May 27, at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center ...
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Philip Zak Margolis III 42 pilot
Philip "Zak" Margolis died in a California copter crash. "He was happiest being a bird in the sky," his mother ...
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Chesco hopes to house vets in new 48-unit development
Tuesday May 27, 2014, Standing in a state of disrepair, the historic Whitehall Inn in Spring City, where the After Chester County failed to get the state the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency ...
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Police probe third sex assault in Mayfair
Police released surveillance footage of a sexual assault that occurred May 17 in Mayfair. Investigators believe the incident may be linked to other ...
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As police probe victim in Camden car theft saga waits for restitution
A week ago, Camden County Metro Police Chief Scott Thomson promised to make restitution to a single mother if it turned out his department had botched its investigation of the theft of her car from ...
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Ex-disc jockey facing sex charge dies at 78
Story Highlights Radio personality Dave Herman died Thursday at 78. Herman was in jail awaiting trial on charges in a child-sex sting. He had pleaded not guilty to the ...
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Delco man accused of stealing skin
Gary Dudek, 54, of Wallingford, Pa., is charged with theft and tampering with records. According to investigators, Dudek repeatedly stole skin grafts from Mercy Philadelphia Hospital between ...
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Fourteen Villanova students earn Fulbright grants
DELAWARE COUNTY 14 Villanova students get Fulbright grants VILLANOVA Fourteen Villanova University students, all from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, have been awarded the prestigious ...
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CCP student held on $250000 bail in alleged campus gun threat
A Community College of Philadelphia student who allegedly pulled a gun on another student during an argument at the Spring Garden Street campus was ordered held on $250,000 bail Thursday. Ryan ...
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Former parishioners work pray to save doomed St. Laurentius
Neighbors are working hard and praying, sometimes en masse, in an effort to save a historic Catholic church in Fishtown that was shuttered in March due to safety concerns. The Archdiocese of ...
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Catholic high school teachers OK new labor contract
Parents and students at the 17 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia are assured of at least one more year of labor peace. The 650 members of Local 1776 of the Association of ...
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Labor board sides with FOP on disciplinary code
FOUR YEARS ago, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey was looking for more leeway in how to deal with misbehaving cops. Frustrated by a disciplinary code that hadn't been updated in ages, Ramsey ...