Another College Teachers' Union Takes Up Call For Pay Freeze
The union representing faculty at West Chester, Cheyney and twelve other state-owned Pennsylvania universities is offering to negotiate a one-year pay freeze.
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The union representing faculty at West Chester, Cheyney and twelve other state-owned Pennsylvania universities is offering to negotiate a one-year pay freeze.
Mayor Nutter's current budget proposal may get thrown out because of budget cuts at the state level.
Milton Street will be back before a Philadelphia judge Monday as he fights Mayor Nutter's efforts to kick him off the May primary ballot.
A couple of deadly inter-city commuter bus crashes in the northeastern US earlier this month has focused a lot of attention on the safety of those buses. Here in Pennsylvania, state police have been actively involved in motor coach inspections for the last three years.
There were oral arguments held before a Philadelphia judge on whether two City Council members, a city commissioner, and a mayoral candidate were eligible to remain on their respective ballots.
One of the most devastated areas of Japan will get rebuilding help from the State of Delaware. The "First State" is reaching out to its Japanese sister state.
It's the beginning of the end for what had been one of Gloucester County, NJ's larger employers, as Sony Corporation shuts down its CD plant in Pitman, putting some 300 people out of work and perhaps changing the fabric of the town.
Members of Pennsylvania's state Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on a bill that would change when DNA samples can be collected for a police database.
Dogs in Philadelphia are supposed to be registered, but few actually are. The fee is $16 for neutered dogs and $40 for those not neutered.
The nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan is bringing back bad memories for some of the people involved in a similar accident 32 years ago, at Three Mile Island, in central Pennsylvania.
All proceeds from the second annual "Walk for Water, Walk for Life" event will go toward the construction of pipelines to bring clean drinking water to schools in the Rift Valley of Kenya.
Camden Mayor Dana Redd said Thursday that she'll rehire 50 of the police officers and 15 firefighters laid off earlier this year amid a budget crisis in the city, which has seen a spike in crime.
The state is facing a more than $4 billion budget gap and voters don't want major service cuts or tax hikes, but something's got to give.
The School Reform Commission has approved a plan to turnover six Philadelphia public schools to charter companies, as part of the superintendent's effort to turn around its lowest performing schools.
During a visit to Center City, Auditor General Jack Wagner thinks Philadelphia school superintendent Arlene Ackerman is being paid too much.
