Jim Grazione doesn’t need to hear stories about the great Wilt Chamberlain; he has his own.
In 1954, Grazione was a Southeast Catholic player with the unenviable task of guarding Overbrook’s Chamberlain in the City Title game.
Police received a potential break in their investigation into a New Jersey hotel owner’s murder when the victim’s car turned up on a local street last week.
Responding to a tip placed March 23, police found Ranjit Patel’s silver 2003 Acura MDX parked near…
At a Phillies home game in 1998, a member of the team had a chance to be a hero — and he wasn’t even behind the plate.
Dave Holland watched the path of a foul ball as it sailed straight toward an 11-year-old boy sitting in the stands at Veterans Stadium. The boy — his broken…
Flanked by representatives from state and local government, 85-year-old Conswiller B. Pratt cut the yellow ribbon in front of the senior apartment building named in her honor Friday morning.
When a resident approached Ted Scairato about a parking ticket she received at a local school, the community leader turned detective.
Scairato, vice president of the Broad Street West Civic Association, determined that the ticket was issued outside Bregy Elementary…
When she graduates high school on June 13, Katherine White will let out one big sigh of relief.
It’s been an intense couple of years for the senior, who decided to take on extra work to graduate early. She arrived at Horace Furness High School, Third and Mifflin…
Most people knew Bob Vetrone Sr. for his innate ability to reiterate arcane facts about Philadelphia’s prominent sports teams. From his early days in 1948 of sports reporting at The Evening Bulletin to working for La Salle University’s athletic department, sports was the…
Sawan’s Mediterranean Bistro on busy South 18th Street was totally gutted and recently reopened with a new name.
Michael and Dia Sawan now run a place called Byblos, with a beautiful interior and delicious, moderately priced Mediterranean fare.
In My Country, directed by John Boorman, is set during South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings in 1996. The proceedings, held in various parts of the country, gave those who had murdered and tortured their countrymen during apartheid a chance to confess their crimes in front of their…
Usually when a team gets a new coach, it involves an adjustment period for both sides.
But the Neumann-Goretti softball squad is bypassing the introductions with new skipper Mark Snyder.
The baseball season starts next week and I’m hankering for some no-nonsense all-American food.
America gave the world jazz and baseball but not apple pie. Contrary to widespread belief, our most popular American dessert has its roots in England.