Yearly Archives: 2012

More tire slashings reported

Police are investigating a new rash of automobile vandalism in Tacony.Tires were slashed or punctured on six vehicles in a rear driveway of the 6600...

Fight continues over planned methadone clinic

Attorneys involved in the debate over the proposed methadone clinic in Holmesburg are preparing their case for the upcoming court appeal.Meanwhile, some neighbors want the...

Always strange yet funny

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried has branched out from stand-up comic to films and TV. He says he prefers ‘whichever one waves a check in my face.’—...

Former church CFO admits embezzlement

The woman who was supposed to watch over the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s money has pleaded guilty embezzling more than $900,000 of it.On June 29, the...

Man found dead in police officer’s pool

Philadelphia police found a man at the bottom of a fellow officer’s murky swimming pool in Winchester Park last Thursday night, but detectives have...

Frankford Civic approves of real estate plans

Although the lion’s share of residents who came out to the Frankford Civic Association’s July 5 session were there to talk about plans for...

Raid nets heroin, arrests

For the second time in a little more than a month, Philadelphia police have busted suspected associates of a Dominican-led heroin distribution network for...

Burholme Golf to reopen

The public is invited to join Mayor Michael Nutter at next week’s grand reopening of Burholme Golf & Family Entertainment, at 401 Cottman Ave.The facility...

Four new judges appointed

Lawndale’s Fran Shields is among four new judges in the Philadelphia court system.Shields and Scott O’Keefe, of Overbrook, were nominated by Gov. Tom Corbett to...

Pa. AFL-CIO rounds out labor choices for Nov. 6

Mayfair’s Scott Cummings (left), a former bodyguard for Donald Trump (right), wants to be Mitt Romney’s running mate.The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, which earlier this year endorsed...
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