Yearly Archives: 2013

Editorial: Take this tax break

City residents who live in their own homes have only one month left to file for a Homestead Exemption. What is a big mystery...

Bustleton league wins zoning decision appeal

A judge has told the city’s zoning board to rethink a decision that allows a dental-implant manufacturing business to temporarily operate out of a...

Margolies celebrates vote that cost her 13th’s seat

Marjorie Margolies, a Democratic candidate in next year’s 13th Congressional District race, last week released a video on the 20th anniversary of her vote...

Parents will be tried in infant’s death

Catherine SchaibleHerbert and Catherine Schaible will go to trial in the death of their infant son; a judge last week rejected their bid to...

Two wounded in playground shooting

Two men were critically wounded in a shooting at Lower Mayfair Playground on Friday night.The gunfire erupted at 9:05 p.m. near a roller hockey rink...

Oxford Circle man arrested for murder

Philadelphia police on Friday announced the arrest of an Oxford Circle man in the shooting deaths of two people inside a Northeast home on...

Police search for boy missing in Pennypack Creek

Philadelphia firefighters are searching for a 15-year-old boy who was swept away in the waters of the Pennypack Creek Tuesday night.Earlier reports listed the boy’s...

Living the dream

She does it all: In addition to serving as a nurse at Hahnemann University Hospital, Leigh Ann Costanzo has been a Phillies ball girl...

When the bough breaks

Large branches of another tree outside Christine Ostrowski’s Kismet Terrace home fell into the woods while her kids were playing outside nearby. MARIA POUCHNIKOVA...

O’Neill: ‘A leg up’ on removing dam hazard

A model: This fishway in Plymouth, Mass., could be a model for one that could be added to a section of Pennypack Creek.The spawning...

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