'Coats For Kids' Clothing Drive Underway
People from across Philadelphia gave the gift of warmth Sunday as The 6th Annual drive kicked off.
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People from across Philadelphia gave the gift of warmth Sunday as The 6th Annual drive kicked off.
A Narberth-based program gives young adults with disabilities an alternative to living at home or in a facility.
Nearly 1 in 40 American Jews of Eastern European descent carries the BRCA 1 and 2 mutation which increases the risk of certain cancers, including breast and ovarian.
Immigration reform rallies were being held in more than 100 U.S. cities Saturday, including in Philadelphia.
Montgomery County Community College is partnering with a university in South Korea.
The CDC generally reports about 30,000 Lyme cases a year but after a recent conference on the disease, which is spread through the bite of a tick, it concluded that Lyme cases are drastically under-reported and the actual number is probably 300,000 cases.
They'll walk 60-miles over the next three days, to help the fight against breast cancer, and it all starts today.
It's a solemn hero's welcome 45 years in the making, and a bittersweet day for those who knew Major Louis Guillermin.
A traveling music and technology festival was in Philadelphia on Friday, giving high school students an arts experience they might not otherwise get because of budget cuts.
For the fifth year, free flu shot were administered at the Tinicum Township firehouse, in Essington.
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the NCC is offering visitors free admission to its numerous exhibits.
"Our ability to watch our kids play sports at night (and) to have their classmates join them has been taken away," says Leah Ingram, whose daughter plays field hockey.
The grant will allow work to continue on such projects as the Delaware River Trail, between Washington Avenue and Spring Garden Street; a park at Pier 68, in Pennsport; and connector street amenities on Tasker Street.
Gerri C. LeBow Hall, at 32nd and Market Streets in University City, is the new home of Drexel's LeBow College of Business.
The SPCA says the dogs were taken from a private shelter in Georgetown, Del. that was facing bankruptcy.
"Let's have a conversation, a dialogue, a debate," says Donald Sico of the New Jersey Catholic Conference. "And let's let it be a civil discourse."
The website, called "RentMatch," offers reviews, photos and information on various rental properties in the city so that users can decide whether or not it's worth moving in.
The funding crisis has caused the Philadelphia school district to slash the number of college guidance counselors.
According to the 2013 Be Fair Survey conducted by Fair Trade USA, the City of Brotherly Love should be commended for the fairness of its residents.
The Pennsylvania House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would give local school districts the option of increasing other taxes for the purpose of lowering property taxes.
"We could not believe that this was happening. We thought it might rain, but we never ever considered a government shut down."
Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings specialty wines and beers. And the Midtown Village Fall Festival is Sunday, Oct. 6th.
October 2nd is World Cerebral Palsy Day, and a Conshohocken woman is working to raise awareness with the help of yoga and a documentary film.
The goal is $500,000, by October 15th, to buy paper, workbooks, and other school supplies for Philadelphia schoolkids.
A new "interactive" fence has been installed near East Girard Avenue and Marlborough Streets, part of a low-cost, high impact Model Block Program.
