Montco Adoption Attorney Surprised by Potential Action in Russian Parliament
Adopting a child from Russia was never easy, but the Russian parliament is considering making it impossible for Americans to do so.
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Adopting a child from Russia was never easy, but the Russian parliament is considering making it impossible for Americans to do so.
Police originally put out surveillance photos of a man and a woman who made three quick trips into a Walgreens store on Route 70 at Grove Street last week, taking toys from the "Toys for Tots" bin each time.
Local chefs will join forces Sunday at an event to raise money for people who were affect by Superstorm Sandy.
A committee of people who use DRPA bridges and the PATCO high speed line handed the Delaware River Port Authority a list of suggestions this week on issues they'd like to see addressed.
Once the Fralinger string band realized their props were not destroyed by Monday's South Philadelphia warehouse fire, they focused their fundraising efforts to assist the families who were not as fortunate.
A day after one of the nation's deadliest shootings, school districts locally and across the country are wondering if there's more schools should be doing to ensure their children's safety.
Thirteen-year-old Olivia Andrisani gathered her friends and neighbors to sing Christmas songs in LOVE Park in exchange for donations for the Make A Wish Foundation.
Local activist groups, students, parents and community members plan to come together Saturday afternoon to protest the recommended school closings announced on Wednesday.
"We never thought it could happen here" is the usual response after such horrific incidents, says a South Jersey security consultant.
Police say one of two brothers, apparently still angry following an argument with two other men, fired into the crowded Market-Frankford subway-elevated car after stepping off the train.
Families of young victims of senseless violence get a portrait of their lost loved one, painted by a volunteer artist.
The local chapter of the American Red Cross held its annual holiday party Thursday night for children affected by some kind of disaster over the past year.
"I got the dessert," said team manager Charlie Manuel (far right).
For the families of premature infants, the holidays can be a time of mixed emotions. But officials at a Camden hospital were trying to make the season a little brighter for them.
The measure would raise penalties for damaging a war memorial or public artwork from $300 in the current law to $1,000 and up to 30 days of jail time.
ACLU legal director Vic Walczak says the judge will likely schedule a hearing between now and May to determine whether to block the law for the primary.
Philadelphia Police chief inspector Joseph Sullivan says the group recognized "the widow of Officer Brad Fox, the widow of Officer (Brian) Lorenzo from the Philadelphia Police Department, the mother of Officer Moses Walker."
City Council's Rules Committee, by a narrow 4-3 vote, approved changes to the zoning code proposed by 10th District councilman Brian O'Neill.
Marti Hottenstein lost her son Karl to a methadone/prescription drug interaction in 2006, but she's turned her grief into action, in lobbying for the now-passed Karl's Law. It requires methadone related deaths in Pennsylvania to be investigated.
Next to a Christmas tree in a room decorated for the holidays, county clerk Tim Tyler officiated at sixteen consecutive weddings.
The $4-million facility is attached to the Volunteers of America offices on Atlantic Avenue in Camden, and will provide much-needed support to homeless veterans.
Washington Middle School is one of more than 30 schools that have participated in the airport's nationally recognized art program.
The wait is over, and we finally have the first words of Twitter wisdom from Pope Benedict XVI.
The decision by the city's L&I Review Board temporarily halts the demolition of the 164-year-old Church of the Assumption, which has ties to two local saints.
A Philadelphia-based insurance company and two other local organizations want to help potential health care companies make it in Philadelphia.
