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Kendall Brown wants the state attorney general to resentence Paul Summers of Drexel Hill, Pa., who pleaded guilty to forging signatures on petitions for congressional candidate Patrick Meehan last year.
Entrepreneur Tony Luke recently opened cheesesteak outlets in the Middle East (Bahrain and Afghanistan) and has plans for others, and he says it opened his eyes to cultural differences and similarities.
While it would essentially create an open season on the critters, the policy change is not really intended to create a porcupine "hunt," says the man who proposes it.
Mayor Michael Nutter says the broad outlines of the Tastykake deal look good to him.
"I think they will get close to 100-percent. I'm not saying 100-percent, but I think the state system, you know, somewhere around 90-percent would be something that we're trying to look for right now," Republican Bill Adolph says.
A group of grade school students visiting Philadelphia's historic district got a real life lesson on Friday about the US government and the possible government shutdown.
"What compounds that problem is that private sector companies and families who rely upon that (governmental) activity are going to be brought to a halt as well," said Rep. Rob Andrews.
New Jersey officials are conceding a fact many drivers in the Garden State already know: the roads here are in bad shape. But they have a plan to fix them.
A panel of Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judges says it is the state Supreme Court that should have jurisdiction over the challenges to the candidacies of City Council members Frank Rizzo and Marian Tasco, and city commissioner Marge Tartaglione.
A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to two years in prison for threatening U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia in a YouTube video.
The union that represents city firefighters -- which has battled Mayor Nutter on contract issues and station brownouts -- is now endorsing Nutter's sole Democratic challenger: Milton Street.
With dogged determination, animal rights advocates watched on Thursday as a Philadelphia City Council committee approved a measure that puts some bite into the city's dog control laws.
If the federal government does shut down on Friday, some of Philadelphia's top tourist attractions will be closed to the public.
Philadelphia City Council, which controls the purse strings of the city's government, apparently has no problem with the $60,000 salary hike given to police commissioner Charles Ramsey to keep him from fleeing to Chicago.
Pennsylvania House Republicans have rolled out their plan to crack down on fraud and abuse in the state's welfare programs.
