Crash at Franklin Mills claims three lives

Two high school students and a 20-year-old died in a grisly one-vehicle crash outside…

St. Cecilia Elementary rallies to save school

(left) Meghan McHugh watches daughter Piper McHugh, 2, hold a sign at a protest…

Courtroom drama at abusive-priests hearing

A litany of allegations of priests gone wrong was recited in a Philadelphia courtroom Monday, and defense attorneys didn’t like it.

Assistant district attorneys are going to conduct “28 minitrials,” complained attorney Thomas…

Bambies in the crosshairs

Sophomore Tiffany Rodriguez and 650 or so other St. Hubert High School students gathered in the auditorium at…

Northeast reacts to elementary school closings

Pension board goes after CLIP cons

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Union: Medics paying price of vendetta

As a new year begins, the vast majority of Philadelphia Fire Department paramedics will be seeing a change of scenery, according to the head of the city’s firefighters and medics union.

Butkovitz discusses origins of probe of sheriff’s office

A little more than a month after the U.S. Attorney’s Office made a big splash by filing the first criminal charges in its investigation of corruption in the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, City Controller Alan Butkovitz told a small…

Trips (January 18, 2012)

WOMEN’S CLUB OF LAWNCREST April 21. New York. $189, includes transportation and “Sister Act.” Lunch on your own in New York before the show and dinner at Mastoris on your own on the return trip. Final payment due by Jan. 20. 267–546–7786.

Police are on the hunt for suspect in murder of Frankford man

Detectives are looking for a North Philadelphia man in connection with the Jan. 1 murder of a Frankford resident.

Police said they are seeking Christopher Johnson, 30, in the shooting death of…