Philadelphia Daily News

City residents can receive green for going green under a Nutter administration recycling program set to go citywide next July. Full Story »

FOR THE SECOND consecutive year, financial pressure is putting Philadelphia's iconic Mummers Parade on the chopping block, with George Badey III talking about the possible "extinction of the Mummers tradition." Full Story »

You were warned.Still, Philadelphia police issued citations by the fistful this week, after a city ordinance banning motorists from texting or talking on handheld cell phones while driving went into effect. Full Story »

Zhihua Tian traveled thousands of miles from his native China earlier this year to profit from the treasures of the American education system. He found something different at South Philadelphia High School. Full Story »

A lawyer was hauled out of a Family Court building in handcuffs earlier this week after a social worker accused him of elbowing her in the ribs after he sat down next to her. Full Story »

Rodney Bond never expected a gold watch commemorating his 31 years of service to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. But as of tomorrow, Bond will be one of 9 being fired for refusing to take a flu shot. Full Story »

That's quite a souvenir.Two travelers returning to Philadelphia after spending time at the Cannabis Cup marijuana festival in Amsterdam over the weekend were caught with pot stashed in their underwear. Full Story »

The Dad Vail debate may be shifting to the 2011 regatta.Organizers of the longtime local regatta - which last month announced plans to move to Rumson, Monmouth County, N.J., for next year's contest - have sent a letter to the mayor asking that a joint committee discuss terms for the 2011 race, if it were to be held in Philadelphia. Full Story »

Laurada Byers knew that her husband's violent death at the hands of a robber could be her life's defining moment. Instead, she decided to do something that represents her and her husband's values, and opened a school. Full Story »

LEON ROSE KNEW late Tuesday night that this would be happening. Maybe it wasn't official. The contract hadn't been signed. But you could hear it in the tone of the comments from Allen Iverson's agent. Full Story »

Stan Hochman: Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy's new book is a nightmare for the NBA, because it names names, at least two dozen referees Donaghy says allow feuds or friendships to influence the calls they make. Full Story »

PLYMOUTH MEETING's John Grant supported and voted for Barack Obama , but it was "no sale" Tuesday night after the president outlined his plans for expanding the war and our chances for success in Afghanistan - which Grant sees as entering a fruitless, budget-busting quagmire. Full Story »

Mary Stengel Austen has managed to juggle a top job in the business world while raising five young children, with the help of her husband, Peter, also a hard-charging business executive. Full Story »

Vanity gets you every time, especially in the case of the narcissistic man who snapped a picture of himself holding a gun to his head - taking the photo by using a cell phone he'd allegedly stolen from a woman in Olney. Full Story »

Ronnie Polaneczky: Bright-eyed Kyler VanNocker, 5, could die from the cancer he battles. But his insurance carrier has denied coverage for a treatment it considers, "experimental." Full Story »

Philadelphia's first homicide of 2008 could aptly be viewed as a Greek tragedy, given that the victim, Andreas Gabranidis, 55, was a native of Greece. Full Story »

An Elkins Park woman chose to spend part of her 85th birthday Monday at her local library.Then, on her walk home, Frances Gordon was killed on Church Road by a hit-and-run driver who stopped briefly then fled. Full Story »

You can go home again, but if you're a fugitive wanted for kidnapping your own nieces, you probably shouldn't.Police in Mount Laurel, Burlington County, say that Stephen Kirk Murray, 51, came back to South Jersey despite being wanted for helping his sister kidnap her daughters in North Carolina in 1999. Full Story »

TO ME, IT'S too familiar.It sounds like Afghanistanization, which sounds like Vietnamization, which recalls Richard Nixon's 1968 plan to end a war, which instead expanded and went on for seven years. Full Story »

State prosecutors yesterday charged three Philadelphia-area men with supplying $1 million worth of "onions" - one of their text-messaged code words for cocaine - to ravenous consumers in central Pennsylvania. Full Story »

Look out, drivers! Philly police will today start issuing fines to people violating an ordinance that bans their talking or texting on handheld cell phones while driving. Full Story »

The embattled Board of Revision of Taxes yesterday held a public hearing on an agreement with the Nutter administration to temporarily hand assessment authority to the city finance director - after the city solicitor deemed that the original closed-door deal violated the state Sunshine Act. Full Story »

If you love fireworks, but not enough to trek to Penn's Landing at midnight on New Year's Eve, you're in luck. Full Story »

Earlier this year, a 50-year-old blind woman moved into a new home in Holmesburg and, according to a neighbor, worked hard with her two children to make the place her own - putting up new siding and growing tomatoes. Full Story »

A health scare in the early '80s set John S. James on the path of becoming an important figure in the dissemination of AIDS information in the U.S. The Philly resident will be honored for his work at Philadelphia FIGHT's "We Remember Gala." Full Story »