Scouts Kill Rabid Beaver With Rocks After Attack
Scouts threw rocks at a rabid beaver after it repeatedly bit their assistant scoutmaster while he swimming in the Delaware River.
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Scouts threw rocks at a rabid beaver after it repeatedly bit their assistant scoutmaster while he swimming in the Delaware River.
Pennsylvania officials are crowing about the progress of efforts to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel.
The Hunterdon County Medical Examiner has positively identified a body recovered from the Delaware River earlier this week as a teen who disappeared Wednesday while on a tubing trip.
After two days of searching for missing 16-year-old Jamire Gist from Willingboro, New Jersey, divers recovered a body at 1:34 p.m. on Thursday.
Many fishing along area rivers say they do it for the sport. They catch the fish, maybe take a video or picture, then throw it back.
Rescue boats searching for a teen who disappeared while tubing on the Delaware River in northwestern New Jersey are reported to have been pulled from the water.
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A federal appeals court ruling helped keep the Army Corps of Engineers on schedule for the next phase of dredging of the Delaware River to deepen the channel so larger ships can navigate it to Camden and Philadelphia ports.
Philadelphia police are investigating the discovery of a woman's body that was pulled from the Delaware River Thursday.
A man riding a personal watercraft on Friday was knocked unconscious after attempting to jump a wave on the Delaware River, according to authorities.
Kevin Grace, a visitor from Illinois, was one of the passengers on ill-fated duck boat 34 that afternoon in July of 2010 as a sludge barge being pushed by a tugboat bore down on the amphibious tour vehicle. Two other passengers were killed.
A trial is getting under way in federal court to over the amount two vessel operators may have to pay after a collision of a tugboat-guided barge and a sightseeing boat two years ago in Philadelphia that left two Hungarian students dead.
A small pleasure boat docked near Dave and Buster's, at the foot of Spring Garden Street, burned.
A man was rescued by crews after his car plunged into the Delaware River early Wednesday morning.
A badly decomposed body was discovered near Penn's Landing on Saturday.
The largest rooftop solar power plant in North America now sits atop two refrigeration buildings along the Delaware River in Gloucester City, New Jersey, in the shadow of the Walt Whitman Bridge.
The northern snakehead, a predatory fish from China, has been caught at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Tinicum Township.
An out of this world fundraiser is taking place this coming Friday at Historic Fort Mifflin. Reservations are now being taken for Paranormal Friday.
The US Army Corps of Engineers is expecting to get its orders shortly to continue deepening the shipping channel on the river from 40 to 45 feet. This phase of the work will begin just north of Wilmington.
The US Army Corps of Engineers says the Delaware River dredging project will not be slowed or cost more even if federal authorities decide to declare the Atlantic sturgeon an endangered species.
Participants raised an estimated $200,000 to support about 20,000 Special Olympics athletes.
For those who like to see the New Year in with a bang, Penn's Landing is the place to be on Saturday. Two fireworks shows are scheduled for New Year's Eve and preparations are already underway.
The National Audubon Society's 112th annual Christmas Bird Count is going on now across the country. And, while many people were returning and exchanging unwanted gifts, a group of birding enthusiasts from Moorestown, New Jersey spent the day after Christmas out on the count.
The Independence Seaport Museum held its 2nd annual Seaport Parade of Lights Saturday night on Penn's Landing. Tug boats and other vessels were lit up with festive lights and put on a show for spectators.
There are more than 100 nests scattered across the Garden State.
