Praise For New Diversionary Program for Phila. Schoolkids
In its first year, the program has cut the number of child arrests in half. Jovon Scere is grateful for how the program helped her daughter, Jahnira Scere-Jones.
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In its first year, the program has cut the number of child arrests in half. Jovon Scere is grateful for how the program helped her daughter, Jahnira Scere-Jones.
Three retired teachers sued the SRC on First Amendment grounds after they were prohibited from holding protest signs at a contentious meeting on charter schools.
About 70 freshmen at West Philadelphia High School were honored for their completion of the Teen Outreach Program.
The "Sponsor-a-Scholar" program of Philadelphia Futures provides mentoring and money to low-income, first-generation-to-college students.
The women's race will be the featured event on Sunday.
Food, Bollywood and yoga. Those are what most people think of when it comes to South Asian culture, "but they aren't the only aspects," says Samip Mallick.
"We're going to revise our fare system for the day to provide for either a $2.50, one-way, or $5, round-trip, ticket," says DRPA deputy CEO Michael Conallen.
The 128-year-old Philadelphia weekly says this was the only way to keep the paper running.
This multi-faceted exhibit takes a look at LGBT rights from a time when being gay was a crime to today, when gay marriage may be on the verge of becoming the law of the land.
Johnnie's Italian Restaurant on Comly Street is holding the benefit dinner for the children of Lieutenant Joyce Craig.
Quatrel is a young man of many pursuits: he loves music, sports, and cooking, and wants to go into the US military.
Police in Ventnor, NJ are trying to find out who owns an unusual item found on the boardwalk last November.
Mastery CEO Scott Gordon says "Signing Day" is modeled after the hoopla around when a high school athlete declares.
"We look at homicide as a public health epidemic," said Dorothy Johnson Speight, who started Mothers in Charge after her 24-year-old son, Khaaliq, was murdered several years ago.
The Villanova adjunct professor volunteers at Vietnamese universities, where he says students are craving to learn English -- and about social and economic opportunity.
It's Ancestral Remembrance day-- and for the third year in a row, community members will gather along the Delware River to pay homage to the slaves that came through the Port of Philadelphia.
The new rules, announced last week by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, call for more protections of the nation's waterways, including headwaters that feed into larger rivers such as the Schuykill and Delaware.
Anthony Elonis used Facebook to make a series of violence-laced posts criticizing his wife and others. But he claimed his rants did not amount to "true threats."
An effort is underway to keep one of the Mural Arts Program's most iconic works, in the heart of South Philadelphia, from disappearing forever.
Saint-Gobain is providing a $600,000, three-year grant to "YouthBuild," a program that helps 16-to-24 year olds who are no longer in school earn their high school diplomas or GEDs while learning construction trades.
A new push is on to solve a 24-year-old "cold case" in Cape May County: that of Mark Himebaugh, who disappeared in 1991, at age 11.
At police headquarters on Federal Street, three new captains and ten new lieutenants took the oath of office.
The World Meeting of Families has announced that Aramark will be the official retail provider.
A quick-thinking 10-year-old is being credited with alerting officials to an out of control fire burning inside a vacant building in Montgomery County on Sunday.
Local Aviation and history buffs are getting an up-close look at vintage planes this weekend.
