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U.S. 11/04/18, 23:53

By StaffAn empty Gladwyne mansion exploded from a gas leak Sunday night, authorities said, reducing the grand house to debris and kindling.The explosion, heard and felt by thousands in Lower Merion and beyond around 8 p.m., leveled a home that was under renovation on the 600 block of Dodds Lane.Continue ...

U.S. 11/02/18, 17:13

By StaffWhile Pittsburgh healed from the wounds of a synagogue shooting that killed 11, a suburban township on the opposite end of Pennsylvania was reminded of the hate that spurred the violence.A Jewish couple woke up Wednesday morning in North Wales, Montgomery County, to find swastikas spray-painted onto the windows ...

U.S. 11/01/18, 10:53

By StaffPenn State researchers rounding the bend on a year-long study of broadband access in rural Pennsylvania are finding that speeds are even s. . . l. . . o. . . w. . .e. . .r. . . than previously thought.Last year, the Inquirer and Daily News wrote about Pennsylvania’s ...

U.S. 10/31/18, 16:43

By StaffA cracked sewer pipe cut off the water supply to cells at Delaware County’s prison this weekend, preventing its 1,883 inmates from flushing their toilets for about 24 hours, prison officials said.The resulting smell and inconvenience at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility was debated Wednesday at a county council ...

U.S. 10/30/18, 22:03

By StaffArthur “Drew” W. Mellen IV, 64, a soft-spoken obstetrician at Pennsylvania Hospital who delivered more than 7,000 babies, died Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after a 12-year battle with leukemia and myelofibrosis.Dr. Mellen, a longtime resident of Cherry Hill, had a calming bedside ...

Football 10/30/18, 18:43

By StaffRutgers linebacker Izaia Bullock was charged in connection to a plot to murder two members of a friend’s family Tuesday, according to a Middlesex County prosecutor’s office release.The 22-year-old junior faces two counts of first-degree attempted murder and two counts of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder. NJ.com reported that Rutgers’ football ...

New York 10/29/18, 17:53

By StaffTemple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine and New York City’s Hunter College have been awarded $13.5 million to jointly explore ways to reduce cancer health disparities that affect African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian-Pacific Americans.The five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund the creation of the ...

Pennsylvania 10/29/18, 16:03

By StaffHARRISBURG — Defense lawyers for state Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown are asking the judge in her political corruption trial to dismiss all charges before the case goes to the jury.The request came Monday as Brown’s lawyers began presenting her defense in the case, which grew out of a sweeping ...

Pennsylvania 10/29/18, 05:23

By StaffWhen Robert Henderson’s company moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware more than two decades ago, he had already settled into a home in Chester County. So he stayed put.But commuting across state lines has cost Henderson, an engineer, thousands of dollars in the last 26 years because he must pay Delaware’s ...

Pennsylvania 10/28/18, 18:23

By StaffTAMAQUA, Pa. — The school board president said he imagines a sign posted outside each building, something like: “Staff members at this school are armed. If you wish to do harm, enter at your own risk.”Others in the Schuylkill County town imagine very different scenes when they think of ...

Pennsylvania 10/28/18, 17:13

By StaffTraffic on Gab, the social media platform that the suspect in a deadly shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh frequented — and where he appeared to post his last missive — is relatively small compared to other social media outlets. But it has outsized influence on the alt-right, the loose compendium of ...

Pennsylvania 10/25/18, 19:47

By StaffAn attorney for Chester County District Attorney Thomas P. Hogan fired back at the state police union on Wednesday, filing objections to a lawsuit faulting the prosecutor for a list of law enforcement officers his office blocks from testifying in court and objecting to an internal memo criticizing the actions of ...

U.S. 10/24/18, 23:23

By Staff The first time Nicki Saccomanno used fentanyl, she overdosed. It was 2016, and the 38-year-old from Kensington hadn’t known that the drugs she’d bought had been cut with the deadly synthetic opioid. She just remembers injecting herself with a bag, and then waking up surrounded by paramedics frantically trying to ...

U.S. 10/24/18, 22:20

Tricia L. Nadolny, By StaffA priest sexually abused five sisters in a single family. Pennsylvania’s grand jury report into the Catholic Church has pushed them to tell their stories.Continue reading on Philly.comhttp://www.philly.com/philly/news/special-reports-shell-arc-sisters-20181024.htmlSource: The Associated Press

Pennsylvania 10/24/18, 11:11

By StaffYoung children with developmental disorders, including autism, are at substantially greater risk of being overweight or obese than the general population of children the same ages, according to a new study from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University, and five other research centers.The study ...

Football 10/24/18, 10:11

By StaffThis week, the Philadelphia Eagles have flown the coop and traveled east.As the NFL continues to cultivate a fan base overseas, the Birds are set to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, one of three London games organized by the league.Continue reading on Philly.comhttp://www.philly.com/philly/news/eagles-jaguars-london-uk-fans-passyunk-avenue-20181024.htmlSource: The Associated ...

Pennsylvania 10/23/18, 06:41

By StaffSince Airbnb became a popular platform for travelers to rent homes or rooms, cities and states have expanded taxes to cash in on the business of home-sharing.How much of an impact have those taxes had in Pennsylvania? Airbnb says it has collected and remitted more than $21.1 million since the company began collecting taxes ...

Football 10/21/18, 10:56

By StaffMichael Irvin is firmly onboard the “Wentz wagon.”Irvin, the Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboys receiver who works these days as an analyst on the NFL Network, praised Wentz last week following his performance against the New York Giants. Now Irvin is doubling-down on the young quarterback as the team hopes ...

U.S. 10/18/18, 17:52

A veritable menagerie of exotic animals, including alligators, tortoises and snakes, was rescued from a squalid home in upper Montgomery County on Thursday, officials said. And the couple who allegedly hoarded the animals had been sought Monday in connection with another cache of pets in nearby Macungie, Lehigh County, where authorities rescued 100 ...

Pennsylvania 10/18/18, 16:52

By StaffIn this season of non-stop campaign ads and fervent public appeals for votes in next month’s mid-terms, Bucks County officials are scrambling to find enough workers to staff its polling stations on Election Day.So far, the county has lined up 1,800 poll workers, 200 short of its goal of ...