Positively Philadelphia: Please Touch Museum's New Year Countdown
"Sometimes little ones -- and sometimes adults -- can't make it 'til 12 midnight," explains a museum spokeswoman.
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"Sometimes little ones -- and sometimes adults -- can't make it 'til 12 midnight," explains a museum spokeswoman.
The temperatures were in the low 60's, which had those taking in the sights and sounds of the holiday season all smiles in Center City.
This was Cathedral Kitchen's tenth -- and largest -- graduating class.
"He was a giver and he cared about people and he loved people," says Marc Poland, an entrepreneur and longtime friend of Officer Moses Walker Jr., who was gunned down in North Philadelphia last year.
Mayor Nutter says the current record in Philadelphia is far from good enough.
The People's Emergency Center gathered goodies donated from Citizens Bank employees for this year's annual "Stockings of Love" program.
"Cure Violence" is already at works in some neighborhoods in several cities, including Philadelphia.
Instead of throwing the shells in the trash, they are placed in bins and picked up by a nonprofit, New Jersey-based environmental group, the BaySave Foundation.
After violence between blacks and Asians erupted at South Philly High, Wei Chen organized a Chinese-American Student Association at the school, and led peaceful walkouts to draw attention to racial violence there.
Fifty Delaware coworkers are $20,000 richer.
A group of Villanova University law students have helped gain asylum in the United States for a Russian man who claims he was persecuted for years in his home country because he is gay.
An Atheist group protesting a Christmas sign in a South Jersey town is offering a reward after someone tried to light their billboard on fire.
Church officials have defrocked a United Methodist pastor from Pennsylvania who officiated his son's gay wedding in Massachusetts.
The crèche is a Christian tradition containing statues representing the baby Jesus in a stable in Bethlehem.
Who do you know who has changed the Black community for the better this past year?
Organizer Yoko Barnes says fair trade means that works are paid a living wage and no child laborors are used
New research shows that in cities where there are fewer men, violent crime is likely to spike.
The Philadelphia Police Foundation provides equipment to the police department not covered in the city's budget.
The Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House is a nonprofit agency near 41st and Baltimore that provides meals, shelter, and support to military veterans in need, all year round.
For this two-day "Santa's Workshop" at Robin's Nest, parents come in and "shop" for toys for their children.
Word is, the US attorney in Philadelphia is taking a long look into past DRPA spending, particularly on economic development projects.
Check the community cancellations received by CBS Philly for Tuesday evening, December 17, 2013.
The proposal, which has cleared an Assembly committee, would be targeted at those who live in the state and attend medical school here.
The Jewish Relief Agency lost more than $100,000 when its biggest fundraiser was canceled earlier this month due to an unexpected snowstorm.
Coming in fourth for job loss, the town's unemployment rate was a whopping 11.1% in October.
