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The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing the case of the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, which last month disinvited a group of black and Latino children who had gone to swim in its pool.

The call came in at 7:06 p.m. Juveniles, seven of them, on a quiet residential street, selling an uncontrolled substance: lemonade.

A 14th Police District sergeant responding to a domestic call in East Germantown yesterday was seriously wounded when a mentally disturbed man went after him with a knife, police said.

HARRISBURG - Tens of thousands of state employees today will receive what likely will be their last paycheck before they are expected to start showing up for work without compensation.

When I heard that Einstein at Enon, a walk-in health clinic, had recently opened at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, my first thought was, "Isn't one there already?"

Don Myers, 38, was heading east on Chestnut Street near 30th toward Center City shortly after 10 a.m. when he hit congestion caused when construction workers temporarily halted traffic to unload building materials from a tractor trailer, said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives. But Myers, who worked for the Mayor's Office of Community Services during John Street's administration, apparently ...

The chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association yesterday called on Common Pleas Judge Willis Berry Jr. to resign for having brought the judicial office into disrepute by running his private real-estate business from his chambers for more than 10 years.

A Delaware County judge yesterday lowered the curtain on Yeadon Borough's political sideshow, forcing Councilman Terry McGirth out of office due to his criminal record.

Laura Sommerer told a judge that she wanted to be a social worker to make a difference in children's lives. Yesterday, the fired Department of Human Services worker pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the death three years ago of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly.

Murder charges were filed yesterday morning against convicted drug dealer Will "Pooh" Hook, the alleged mastermind behind the June 27 slayings at the Piazza at Schmidts.

The business will recommend efficiency improvements in the township to be funded by PA Conservation Lower Macungie Township commissioners have hired a local firm to develop a plan for energy efficiency and to apply for grant money to carry out projects at township offices, annex and community center.

Directors OK reimbursement plan to education department to determine reimbursable percentage. Easton Area School Board directors approved a reimbursement plan Thursday that will be sent to the state Department of Education detailing more than $93 million spent to build the district's middle school complex in Forks Township.

Mayor hopes the deal presented to nonunion employees helps avoid a projected $9 million deficit. Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski has offered the city's eligible nonunion employees cash incentives to retire as part of his cost-cutting plan to help avoid a projected $9 million deficit by year's end.

Former furniture store to become seafood restaurant and apartments this winter. Crews began stripping off the brown stucco exterior of Easton's former Lipkin's Furniture store Friday, revealing a 1920s-era facade and moving the building closer to its future as a restaurant and apartments.

I f you have the idea that places of worship always are free from intrigue and infighting, you're sadly mistaken. It can get nasty sometimes, even among people of strong faith and good intentions.

18 men were arrested after a year long investigation in child pornography claims ended with dawn raids of home across Camden County. Friday morning at 5:30 a.m. County officials, along with federal, state and local law enforcement, executed the final search warrants in Operation Sentinel, the year-long effort from the Camden County Prosecutor's Office to track down and prosecute individuals ...

Pennsylvania's budget crisis has now hit thousands of state workers where it hurts the most: their wallets. The state issued just partial paychecks Friday. Workers scheduled to get paid saw just 70 percent of their pay. It gets worse next week as Pennsylvania is rapidly losing its power to spend money. Workers scheduled to get paid next Friday will get just 20 percent of their pay. After that, ...

The City of Philadelphia told Harrisburg lawmakers Friday that due to the State budget impasse, the City will delay payments to all vendors and suppliers until the State Budget is passed, allowing an increase in City's sales tax and changes to its pension payments. "I have made repeated trips to Harrisburg over the last several weeks and I know that lawmakers are working hard to pass a fair and ...

Police are investigating a hit and run crash that left a young child critically injured in Montgomery County Wednesday.

An electrical failure prompts a pilot to make an emergency landing in ocean city. County police responding to the emergency landing say the landing gear collapsed on the plane forcing it to skid more than 560 feet down the runway at the ocean city municipal airport.

Three men held up a check cashing agency disguised as UPS deliverymen.

A smoking mishap resulted in a woman suffering severe burns Friday evening.

Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Jack Ikegwuonu has been acquitted of burglary charges in Illinois.

Nearly two dozen people in Camden County have been charged with downloading and sharing child pornography.

Who would take a bag full of uniforms from a basketball team?

Three firefighters could be in big trouble after allegations surface that they had sex with minors on the job.

"The Katie at the Bat Team" uses sports to teach young girls to believe in themselves and that anything is possible.

The magazine that is known for stimulating something other than the brain ironically called Philadelphia a city full of “dimwits.” The cast of "It's Always Sunny" defended the city's honor.

The payments have run dry so some Delaware County residents were left without a home. Get a look into the confusing process of foreclosed home sales through the eyes of Maria Pothier who was afraid she...

Residents of Chester, Pa. rallied outside Chester City Hall Friday to fight delinquent trash fees they’re being charged, totaling more than $3 million. Sponsored Topics: Chester - England - Cheshire - United States - Society and Culture

The tower that looms over Camden High School, the reason the school is known as the castle on the hill, will soon get a face-lift.

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.

An administrator of the Clearview Regional School District in Mullica Hill has died in a bike accident here.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the lower district court should address whether a New Jersey religious organization can bar gay couples from holding civil union ceremonies on its properties, except for a popular pavilion.

A jury convicted a suspended teacher's aide Friday of sexually assaulting a teen student.

Mayor Lorenzo Langford holds a press conference on allegations of misconduct within the Atlantic City Fire Department.

ATLANTIC CITY - Dealers at Bally's Atlantic City and Caesars Atlantic City are voting to determine whether to authorize a strike against their respective casinos.

OCEAN CITY - Ocean City hopes to "friend" the world. The city's tourism board has hired a marketing firm to help the resort build good buzz on Facebook, Twitter and other social-networking sites.

CAPE MAY - The Coast Guard is trying to make sure the clerical error that may have contributed to the deaths of six crewmen aboard the Lady Mary does not happen again.

TOMS RIVER - The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office is investigating allegations of fraud and embezzlement by Steven T. Baryla, president of Cedar Bridge Military Academy, officials said Thursday.

LAWRENCE -- Two Chinese restaurant patrons received both food and cash Thursday night when they robbed the business at gunpoint, police said. The two men arrived at the Golden Empire Chinese Restaurant on the 2700 block of Brunswick Pike just as it was closing for the evening.

TRENTON -- Taxpayers can voluntarily donate part of their income-tax refund to food pantries starting next year to help address food shortages.

LAWRENCE -- A man's body that was discovered in the Shabakunk Creek Thursday night may be that of a vagrant, police said yesterday. "We're following leads that it might be a homeless person in the area," Lt. Charles Edgar said.

EWING -- Feral cats, aggressive dogs, pushy volunteers, defiant staff workers, heartless administrators, squalid conditions and inhumane treatment -- for years, the complaints about the Ewing Animal Shelter have been the stuff of Dickensonian novels.

NEW HOPE, Pa. -- How good is the early summer tourism business here? No one knows for sure, but business should be brisk, judging by the revenue from parking meters.

As of January, every home in the city of Philadelphia is required to have a carbon monoxide alarms. Philadelphia's fire commissioner wants that requirement extended to every home in Pennsylvania.

Bucks County authorities have charged a Warminster, Pa. couple with child endangerment after they say a baby girl was severely burned on a stove and stuck with a hypodermic needle.

Garden while at work? That's what's going on at Subaru of America headquarters in Cherry Hill, NJ.

More than 400 homes went up for sheriff sale in Media on Friday, almost half of them after Sheriff Joe McGinn ordered a two month delay to give people a chance to get professional help.

Applications are being accepted for grants that will pay for arts jobs in Philadelphia thanks to a batch of economic stimulus money.