Philadelphia Promoting Its Weeklong New Year's Festivities
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter says the city's New Year's Eve celebration seems to get better every year.
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Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter says the city's New Year's Eve celebration seems to get better every year.
Many Drexel students lined up to help bag the toys.
The L&I board was scheduled to decide Tuesday afternoon on whether to temporarily halt the demolition.
Upper Moreland senior Emilie Dormer was inspired by a cousin's experience as a THON dancer -- so she and classmate Alex Pronzato decided to organize a mini-THON at the school.
City Hall is now officially pushing a "bike share" program and will be asking City Council to help fund it to get it started.
For the fifth straight year, a rural Gloucester County church has erected an indoor Christmas display that has a rather urban, nostalgic air about it.
Authorities say 78-year-old John Bligh and his 70-year-old wife Ellen were last seen around 3:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon when they left their home.
A tough economy for retail businesses over the past couple of years has apparently taken its toll on a mom-and-pop business in Bucks County that's been around for more than three decades.
Crews from the Philadelphia Water Department fixed a water main break Sunday morning after it burst Saturday afternoon in Center City's shopping district. But some streets are not expected to reopen until later this week.
The cases, two confirmed and 38 considered probable, are linked to a recalled, potentially tainted steroid produced by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts.
The justices will review an appeals court ruling that struck down California's ban on gay marriage in addition to hearing a case on the issue of whether Congress can deprive legally-married gay couples of federal benefits.
The $50 million gift is from philanthropist Eugene Lang, Swarthmore Class of 1938 and an entrepreneur who has paid for the college education of 15,000 students through his "I Have A Dream" Foundation.
The Army-Navy series is not only the most patriotic rivalry in sports, it's turned into one of the most one-sided. Navy has won 10 straight.
Just after 12:30 a.m, police responded to a call about a shooting inside the Easy Corner Bar on the 500 block of North 35th Street.
This time every year the number of wishes double on WishUponAHero.com. There are approximately 14,000 active requests from people who need help. Dave Girgenti of Voorhees started the site in 2007.
Students of the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts ("CAPA") stopped at four daycare centers in South Philadelphia along with "Santa" and his helpers (officers in the 17th Police District) to offer stories and songs.
It's the work of Jennifer Barton, now a New York public relations agent but still a self-described "Jersey girl" from Moorestown.
The effort among Philadelphia's district, charter, and archdiocesan schools known as the "Great Schools Compact" has received a $2.5-million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Philadelphia area hunger relief organization Philabundance is getting a two-fer: volunteers and a donation from a chain of cancer hospitals.
The owner of the Electric Factory building wants permission to wrap the building, which is visible from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, in an electronic sign. Some community groups were outraged.
There are 17 young adults in the first "Culinary Connections" class, sponsored by JEVS Human Services in Philadelphia.
Nailed to the padlocked door of the former Church of the Assumption on Spring Garden Street is a notice of demolition.
"We were clearing out a locked closet, and there was a water color," explains Meg Sharp Walton, executive director of the Glen Foerd mansion in Northeast Philadelphia.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has completed a decade-long process and approved changes to its diagnostic manual. The new manual - the first complete revision since 1994 - comes out in May.
If you're looking for unique holiday gifts for someone special, take a peek at what our local museum gift shops have to offer.
