Yearly Archives: 2012

Parks and Recreation Department to distribute free trees

The city will give out free trees in April. You can get one easily; all you have to do is ask and make a...

Sorting decades-old evidence could be “an impossible task”

Legal arguments for and against using decades-old allegations against Philadelphia priests as evidence in the upcoming sexual abuse trial of two priests and an...

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...
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