Marathon Route Will Make Navigating City Tricky
If you have to get around Philadelphia during the marathon, you might want to check your route, as many streets will be closed and buses will be detoured.
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Rendell Says He Wants Pa. Government Reforms -- Now.
Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell said this week that he plans to turn up the pressure for reforms of the state's government. And if the legislature won’t respond, he says, he might get behind the effort to convene a convention to rewrite Pennsylvania’s constitution.
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Volunteers Gather to Box Thanksgiving Meals in S. Phila.
Volunteers gathered at the Shop Rite in South Philadelphia to make this Thanksgiving a happy one for some needy Philadelphia families.
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Free Potatoes Passed Out to Those in Need in Camden
Fifty thousand pounds of free potatoes were distributed to residents of Camden on Saturday.
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Contracts Talk Continue Between Acme and the Union
Contract talks between Acme and the union representing clerks at 28 area supermarkets continued on Saturday.
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Employers Have More Advanced Ways to Drug Test
Recent advancements in drug testing give employers more options. They can choose to have employees submit a urine or hair sample to prove they are drug free.
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New Suggested Guidelines for Young Women and Pap Tests
New guidelines suggest that women in their 20's don't need a pap smear every year to detect cervical cancer.
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Man Critically Wounded in Shooting in Old City
A 30-year-old man was in extremely critical condition late Friday night, after he was found with two gunshot wounds to the head in an Old City apartment.
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Commercial Real Estate Biz in Phila. Gets a Low Ranking
An unscientific survey of those in the commercial real estate business finds Philadelphia an uninspiring locale in a pretty bleak landscape.
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Groundbreaking Ceremony Held For New Houses in N. Phila.
Dignitaries gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, but actually, demolition had been going on for two weeks already at Lawrence Court, a development of 50 new three-bedroom houses on the site of a former factory on Lawrence Street.
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Sunday is the 16th Annual Philadelphia Marathon
Runners from all over are descending on Philadelphia this weekend, getting ready for Sunday's 16th annual Philadelphia marathon.
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Local Author Pens Book on Her Life as a Private Investigator
This is not the life of Charlie's Angels, or the female PI of the novels V-I Warshoski, but Chichi McNair's Detectives Don't Wear Seat Belts tells the true story of a real life private detective.
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Lawyers Build Bikes for Kids in Bridesburg
Lawyers turned into bike mechanics in order to surprise a group of kids from Bridesburg on Friday.
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Governor-Elect Christie Outlines Jersey's Economic Woes
Local elected officials in New Jersey were told, in no uncertain terms this week, that the state is facing hard financial decisions and the ways of doing business will change when Chris Christie takes over as Governor in January. One South Jersey mayor believes his colleagues got the message.
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Six Men in Custody in West Philadelphia Rape Case
Six men are under arrest in connection to a West Philadelphia rape that happened late Thursday night.
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