Yearly Archives: 2012

Redistricting plan could change Holme Circle state representatives

City Controller Alan Butkovitz had just told a St. Jerome’s School library packed with Holme Circle residents about the fiscal and operational failings of...

Lawncrest is looking ahead to 4th of July gala

The Lawncrest 4th of July Committee is looking ahead to its summer celebration and welcomed volunteers to a planning meeting Monday night at the...

Animal remains found in park

A man walking his dog in Pennypack Park on Friday found a pile of dismembered animal remains that authorities believe likely has been sacrificed...

Vandals do their dirty work at Lincoln’s stadium

Christopher Andriso paints over the last of the graffiti at Lincoln High School’s football field walls during a clean-up arranged by the anti-graffiti department,...

Police charge 2, seize heroin in house raids

Philadelphia police arrested two men and allegedly seized heroin worth almost $100,000 in raids on two Lower Mayfair houses last Thursday night.Officers from the Narcotics...

Ex-cop opts for deal to settle his Occupy Wall Street arrest

Northeast Philadelphia’s socially disobedient ex-cop has made peace with his former law enforcement colleagues in New York City.Retired Philadelphia Police Department Capt. Ray Lewis — who also...

Northeast woman dies in Fishtown crash

Two people died, including a Northeast woman, and a third was injured in a single-vehicle crash in Fishtown early Sunday.Annette Nash, 46, of the 2700...

‘Man On a Ledge’ takes a big plunge

Sam Worthington plays the wronged cop and Elizabeth Banks is the negotiator who tries to talk him off his perch.The beginning of Man On a...

Gunmen sought in fatal shooting

Philadelphia police are hunting for two gunmen who allegedly shot a Frankford man fatally in the head near Bridge Street and Torresdale Avenue last...

Woman fatally struck crossing Boulevard

The city medical examiner’s office has identified the woman who was struck by a car and killed on Friday as she attempted to walk...

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