HARRISBURG — A program that provides about $200 a month for tens of thousands of disabled adults who can't work is on the chopping block even as improving tax collections give state lawmakers the freedom…
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The stuffed animal and candle memorial that once covered the sidewalk at Third and Annsbury Streets is long gone now, but at the beginning of the summer of 2009 it marked the site of a…
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Homicide detectives are investigating a murder that started out as a case of two missing persons. According to Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson Officer Christine O’Brien, Melanie Colon, 22, and her friend Reynaldo Torres, 41, were…
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DALLAS — For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf. Now the first Black woman to represent North Texas in Congress faces serious…
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Free Library, UPenn displaying artifacts This is the closest historians, archeologists and armchair etymology buffs can get to Africa without actually visiting the Motherland, as cultural icons the Free Library of Philadelphia and the…
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Government must do more to meet minority inclusion goals, contractors say In a scene that’s been played out for decades, minority business owners and their advocates were back at City Hall again Monday morning…
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