Yearly Archives: 2012

Making big leaps at Excel

Rebecca York, 16, sits in a classroom on the Excel Academy South campus. The program is designed to help students who have fallen behind...

8th PDAC announces new executive board

The 8th Police District Advisory Council announced its new executive board during the group’s monthly meeting on Jan. 4.Harry Sonntag will be the new chairman,...

Gunmen steal $16K during home invasion in Tacony

Three gunmen made off with as much as $16,000 after they broke into the home of a Tacony man, robbed him, kidnapped him and...

Engelhardt will be tried alongside his clergy co-defendants

A judge last week quickly brushed aside a motion to separately try one of the priests arrested last year on charges they molested minors.Charles Engelhardt,...

NE woman is missing

Police are looking for a 73-year-old Cottage Street woman who hasn’t been seen since Jan. 2.Judith Franzen, of the 6200 block of Cottage, has brown...

Two children, man perish in fires

A fire in a Tacony storefront claimed the lives of two children and injured a woman critically early Tuesday.The Philadelphia Fire Department has not released...

Crash at Franklin Mills claims three lives

Two high school students and a 20-year-old died in a grisly one-vehicle crash outside the Franklin Mills mall last Wednesday night.Police believe that excessive...

Walk the line

Former Fox Chase resident and Cardinal Dougherty grad Mike Tittinger walked about 3,500 miles in six months from San Francisco to Ocean City, N.J.,...

Paramedic transfers are good, says fire commissioner

Monday’s transfers of more than 160 of Philadelphia’s 200 fire department paramedics will benefit them and the city in the long run, according to...

Northeast reacts to elementary school closings

St. William Elementary School fifth-grader Jason Mattis was disappointed last Friday when he heard his school would be closing in June. “It’s sad because I practically...

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