This is the last year for the St. John Neumann football team — at least in its current form. It’ll be back in some incarnation, but its nickname and colors will change once the school merges with St. Maria Goretti.
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Rodney McCarter was an All-City and All-Public football player at Bok Technical High. Still, he didn’t plan to pursue an athletic scholarship.
Somehow, he ended up starting for Division I-AA James Madison University and ever…
The first week of school finds most kids down in the dumps, mourning the end of summer and dreading the inevitable onslaught of homework and tests.
The South Philadelphia Youth Coalition of Churches is hoping to turn a lot of those September frowns upside down this weekend…
Police arrested one of two men they say terrorized a 75-year-old woman after they broke into her home and robbed her at gunpoint.
Two men burst into an elderly woman’s home Sunday and robbed her at gunpoint, but the victim’s son may have saved the day…
Southern Sky 801 Washington Ave. 215–627–5886 Credit cards accepted Wheelchair-accessible Open 10 a.m.-11 p.m.; closed Mondays
The Live Stop program has been a success, by most accounts. Through the initiative, the city has confiscated 34,000 vehicles driven by unlicensed and uninsured motorists. The one disappointment of the program is that it hasn’t convinced the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance to force…
BOWLERS NEEDED Bowlers are needed for the St. Monica Guys and Dolls Monday Night Fun League. Call Kathy, 215–592–1500 or 215–468–6520.
South Philadelphia High is being punished by the state, according to the school’s principal.
The reason? The faculty has been dutifully reporting violent incidents at the school, he says.
Call it fate, spiritual intervention or just fortunate coincidence, but Rose Collins was away from home at the right time.
While the 67-year-old woman was visiting her niece and nephew two weeks ago, a bullet came flying through her front door on the…
The recent happenings in the Montgomery, Ala., Ten Commandments case are indicative of some Americans’ ongoing attempt to deny that the United States was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs.
The biggest crisis in this country is not the economy or the rising gasoline prices, but the spin the…
Photos by Ryan Brandenberg
“The Phillies are going to fail, as usual. The Eagles, though, are headed for a Super Bowl year.”
Mohamed Safa, Seventh and Morris streets
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On a damp morning that was supposed to mark the first day of classes in Archdiocese of Philadelphia high schools, all of the action took place outside the classroom.
Masked and Anonymous PG-13 (sexual situations, language, well-regarded actors ruining their careers) Opening tomorrow at Ritz theaters One reel out of four
Since 1998, Pennsylvanians Against Underage Drinking has had a hotline available to all citizens to help fight the number-one youth drug problem.
Like most issues, people pay attention when the problem hits close to home, like when there has been a recent…