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Source: news.yahoo.com --- 6 days ago
The Community Education Centers Inc. held the dedication ceremony on Tuesday for Hoffman Hall, its new 400-bed residential re-entry center currently housing 200 inmates from the Philadelphia Prison System. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 6 days ago
A Philadelphia police officer was involved in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in the Port Richmond section of the city. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 1 day ago
Three years after arriving in the Philadelphia retail banking market, Bank of America appears to have made some headway, according to data released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Thursday. (C) (WB) ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 9 days ago
Philadelphia -- Rocker Bruce Springsteen performed a brief solo set in Philadelphia Saturday to promote Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign. ...

Source: philadelphia.bizjournals.com --- 5 days ago
Philadelphia’s budget shortfall could climb to between $650 million and $850 million over the next five years, significantly more than the $450 million forecast last month, Mayor Michael Nutter warned Wednesday. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 5 days ago
With the worldwide financial crisis playing havoc with the city's fiscal health, Mayor Nutter warned yesterday that the gap in Philadelphia's five-year spending plan could reach $850 million. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 5 days ago
HARRISBURG - Democratic registration has surged by 13 percent and Republican ranks have shrunk by 1 percent as a record 8.6 million people in Pennsylvania registered to vote in the 2008 presidential election. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 2 days ago
Helen Henderson, 82 years old and African American, sat in the sunshine at 52d and Locust Streets yesterday, waiting for Barack Obama to arrive. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 7 days ago
Prices at the pump had a good weekend - from a driver's point of view: They all declined. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 7 days ago
Mayor Nutter today announced the members of a new task force that will evaluate city ethics policies and recommend fixes to Philadelphia's five-year-old campaign-finance law. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 2 days ago
At the Hero Thrill Show on Sept. 20, Officer Patrick McDonald approached Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey and asked how many promotions to the rank of sergeant were coming. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 7 days ago
New Philadelphia schools chief Arlene Ackerman has surrounded herself with a diverse inner circle of educators picked from far and wide, shaking up a historically inbred district with fresh faces. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 2 days ago
The Philadelphia Parking Authority will give $100 refunds to 4,390 motorists ticketed this year, because its red-light cameras were a little too quick on the draw. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 2 days ago
Robert A. Waite, 79, a West Philadelphia dentist for 43 years who spoiled his daughter with candy on the condition that she brush her teeth after eating it, died Oct. 2 of a stroke at Chestnut Hill Hospital. He lived in West Mount Airy. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 2 days ago
Entrancing and rich - that was Etran Finatawa's performance Tuesday at the Calvary Church in West Philadelphia. In its city debut, the band from Niger performed a dozen songs in two 45-minute sets. Animated members were clad in traditional African garb, their hand-clapping, metal-shaking and gourd-thumping percussion overlaid with multilingual vocal lines and, at the center, the nimble Sahara nomad-blues electric guitar of Alhousseini Mohamed Anivolla. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 7 days ago
Months before he died in 1987, author James Baldwin showed up, unannounced, at Giovanni's Room, the gay bookstore named after his landmark homosexual love story from the mid-1950s. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 2 days ago
Stung by a brawl at their school and what they say is a "prisonlike" atmosphere there, about a dozen students demonstrated yesterday to demand change at Sayre High School in West Philadelphia. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 18 hours ago
Want some good financial news this Monday morning? Gas prices are continuing to fall. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 4 hours ago
A 12-year-old riding in a minivan was critically wounded early today when a gunman in a car shot him and two of his teenage companions in North Philadelphia. ...