Mentally Challenged Older Teens And Adults Will Soon Have Their Own Local Book Club
Beginning next month, the Camden County Library will start a book club for up to eight people with mental and developmental disabilities.
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Beginning next month, the Camden County Library will start a book club for up to eight people with mental and developmental disabilities.
A big fundraiser was held Saturday in Glenside, Montgomery County with the goal of helping veterans in need.
The Council of Indian Organizations in Greater Philadelphia held its annual festival at Penn's Landing's Great Plaza Saturday.
The treaty ceremony has taken place every four years since 2002.
A lot of the attention has been on pitcher Mo'ne Davis, the 13-year-old girl throwing strikes at 70 miles per hour, impressing fans and her own parents.
As young players get their first taste of the Little League World Series, in Williamsport, Pa., Taney fever was running high incenter city Philadelphia.
The floating artwork-cum-living-and-performance-space, with aqua garden, is called "Wetland."
Tucked between the US Coast Guard Station and the Sheet Metal Workers' union headquarters, at Washington Avenue and Columbus Boulevard, is the Washington Avenue Pier.
The mayor says the interim cuts imposed now to allow schools to open on time will, in his view, affect learning.
Twenty-two little champions, ages 4 to 16, all in wheelchairs, gave it their all at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, in events such as tee-ball, basketball, and slalom.
"We still have to develop policy around retention (of video), and when it would be on, when it would be OK to turn it off, all those kinds of things," Commissioner Ramsey said. "But I think it is the way to go."
Some family and friends are already there, while others are heading upstate to see the game in person.
Actress and comedian Tina Fey is taking part in a fundraiser at her old stomping grounds this weekend.
Visit Bucks County is looking for your best pictures when you're out and about.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia isn't quite ready to let us take the pope's word as gospel.
The shirts are being sold at three Modell's sporting goods stores (one in center city and two in South Philadelphia) for $10 each, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Taney Dragons.
It was a day of honor and celebration for a decorated World War II veteran in our area.
In our weekly Brotherly Love stories, we meet a lot of people volunteering at food banks to help the hungry. Eyewitness News anchor Ukee Washington met one volunteer who fell on hard times and needed help herself, but still gives back every month.
At Vogt Playground, in the city's Tacony section, 8- to 12-year-olds celebrated the end of the six-week "Philly Play" summer camp series by going head-to-head in a variety of sports and activities.
"This is Bebashi's fifth annual Breast Fest," said Shaina Mitchell, the Philadelphia-based black empowerment organization's breast cancer prevention specialist.
A 2011 earthquake along the East Coast caused extensive damage to the Washington Monument. Now, an Abington company is helping to preserve the tourist attraction.
If he could, fourteen-year-old Ryan would like to play football all day long.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs and the Paralyzed Veterans of America present the games each year, open to military vets who use wheelchairs due to spinal cord injuries, amputations, or neurological problems.
Despite the scandal, McGreevey's announcement opened the closet door for many in the LGBT community.
The Philadelphia Housing Authority has broken ground for its first project in more than two years.
