Gov. Corbett Frees $15 Million For Delaware River Dredging Project
The dredging project was in jeopardy because promised federal money failed to materialize, but the Commonweath of Pennsylvania has stepped in to keep it going.
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The dredging project was in jeopardy because promised federal money failed to materialize, but the Commonweath of Pennsylvania has stepped in to keep it going.
Representatives of the NAACP say they are standing behind veteran officer Kerry Godbold, whom they say was passed over by the department in his bid to become a sergeant earlier this year.
The plan before City Council's Streets Committee would have reserved a single parking space for a hotel-owned car near every hotel to give complimentary local trips to guests.
Michael Tracht of Penn Environment says Philadelphia is the fifth smoggiest big city based on the number of days when the air was unhealthy, both in 2010 and this summer.
A Philadelphia-based activist group says if the government wants to battle childhood obesity, cutting subsidies to corn farmers would be a good start.
After September 11, 2001, Erica Leigh Gabor felt the calling of the United States Marine Corps. So she enlisted and found her passion.
Pritchett is currently the chancellor of Rutgers University's Camden campus, and a former deputy chief of staff for Nutter.
Mayor Michael Nutter said cities must be able to get the job done every day. He says members of Congress already have jobs and they need to look at this package and make sure other people get jobs too.
The wine kiosk program was plagued with problems, mostly as a result of malfunctioning machines. Then the LCB ended up in a contract dispute with the manufacturer of the kiosks.
A federal judicial panel is considering whether to reverse a ruling it made a week ago to declare nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis eligible to run for state Senate in New Jersey.
The head of Philadelphia's embattled School Reform Commission -- attorney Robert Archie -- has resigned, along with member Johnny Irizarry, and now it is up to Mayor Nutter to fill those seats.
A disaster recovery center has opened in center city Philadelphia and will stay open, officials say, as long as necessary.
Tom Capano, a once wealthy and politically connected attorney serving life in prison for killing a mistress in 1996, was found dead in his prison cell on Monday morning.
Saying he was filled with mixed emotions, Warden Julio Algarin presided over the dedication of the new dormitory-style expansion that can accommodate just over five hundred prisoners on work-release or serving sentences for DUI and other nonviolent crimes.
Princeton, NJ has been a both township and a borough since 1894, when they split over the issue of school taxes. The schools have since reunited, but the municipalities have not.
