Yearly Archives: 2012

Butkovitz discusses origins of probe of sheriff’s office

A little more than a month after the U.S. Attorney’s Office made a big splash by filing the first criminal charges in its investigation...

A push to enforce fines for posting illegal signs

In a city desperately short on cash but probably in need of a facelift, members of the Fox Chase Town Watch think they know...

Butkovitz to speak at Holme Circle meeting

City Controller Alan Butkovitz will be the primary guest speaker at the next general meeting of the Holme Circle Civic Association on Wednesday, Jan....

Schools appeal archdiocese’s recommendation for closings

Schools that were affected by the recommendations of an Archdiocese of Philadelphia blue ribbon commission have until Feb. 1 to appeal, and two local...

Lousy aim gets U.S. crasher a jail term

An illegal alien who shot two people during a New Year’s Eve celebration at a Northeast Philadelphia bar three years ago has been sentenced...

Tacony apartment fire claims 3rd victim

A third person has died as a result of a Jan. 10 fire in a Tacony storefront apartment.A spokesman for the Philadelphia medical examiner’s...

Authorities nab suspect wanted for robberies

FBI agents and Lower Merion Township police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted in connection with two bank robberies in the Northeast last month.Brandon Shields,...

Philadelphia Fire Dept. releases year-end report

Calls for emergency medical service continued to drive public demand on the Philadelphia Fire Department in 2011 as the number of fire-related deaths in...

I-95 Cottman-Princeton interchange project delayed

State Sen. Mike Stack (D-5th dist.) and state Rep. Mike McGeehan (D-173rd dist.) on Jan. 11 jointly announced that the second phase of construction...

Sewer construction underway on Roosevelt Blvd.

Don’t let the flashing arrows and orange cones fool you — construction of a long-awaited corporate office complex is not underway on the former Byberry Hospital site.Rather,...

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