Villanova University has launched a $200-million-plus building project that will transform two parking lots on Lancaster Avenue into a Gothic "gateway" to campus and include two residence...

LAS VEGAS - Now it's on to Colorado, Minnesota, and Maine. With back-to-back victories fueling him, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is looking toward the next states that hold...

THE ANGRY crowd in City Council chambers in September held up signs blasting "Taxation Without Representation," but Paul Levy wasn't concerned. The influential head of the Center City...

THE SMALL CANDLES on the ground added no warmth to the Temple University campus last night as students shuffled through the biting cold, past a makeshift memorial for a former student. Some held...

EVEN ON A Sunday afternoon, Everett Gillison's BlackBerry is buzzing with updates about the latest happenings on the streets of Philadelphia - a weekend fire, a person found dead of a possible...

A FEDERAL JUDGE in Utah has ruled there's sufficient evidence to allow the polygamous family of Kody Brown, made "famous" by the "reality" TV show "Sister Wives,"...

Supe-search hearing The Philadelphia School District will continue its series of community forums as part of the search for a new superintendent with three meetings this week. The meetings,...

LEE QUILLEN, an architect who helped launch opposition to creating a neighborhood improvement district in Callowhill with boyfriend Philip Browndeis, says that she would rather see portions of the...

SLAVERY IS alive and well. Not the old-time slavery - that is rare, although it exists in a few backwaters of the world. I'm talking about neo-slavery, which goes by the name of "human...

Man slain in Univ. City * 39th and Market streets A woman found her brother shot to death inside his University City home yesterday afternoon, police said. About 4 p.m., the woman went to check on...

THE first-century Roman poet Ovid defined chaos as "a rude and undeveloped mass that nothing made except a ponderous weight." Sounds like our Legislature and courts. If you haven't...

Despite its significant history, the Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library in Philadelphia is an unimposing structure - save for the two armed guards standing out front. Bedecked in Union...

BERGENFIELD, N.J. - Bergenfield baseball coach Ed Mooney said "it broke me, big time" when he received word that the liver he desperately needed was available - and that it was from one of...

HARRISBURG - After months of wrangling behind closed doors, Gov. Corbett and Republicans who hold the majority in both legislative chambers have reached a tentative agreement to impose a fee on the...

A worker walks through the steam of compost being transfered into a compost tunnel. The hot compost is taken out of one tunnel and transfered to ame sure it has a chance to be oxygenated. (Michael...

Bettina Hoerlin, at home in Chestnut Hill, discovered love letters, such as one in the envelope at top left, between her parents, Kate Schmid and Hermann Hoerlin, below. She found them in a suitcase....

In his will, Charles Dickens asked that no statues of himself ever be erected in his honor. Instead, the famed English author wanted the recognition to go to the characters in his books. Of course,...

To explain why Chinatown needs a community center, John Chin likes to point out a tight, dead-end alley behind his father's old restaurant on 10th Street near Cherry. This was his childhood...

There's no middle ground when it comes to Ritchie Webb. Take, for example, last month's Neshaminy school board meeting. As Webb took his seat as president, half the packed crowd rose and...

Peter Vitale envisions a place in Lower Merion where local beer connoisseurs and novices alike can choose among craft, import, and other specialty brews when they want to take a break from the pricey...

Three Philadelphia firefighters were injured, one critically, when they became trapped on a third floor while fighting a rowhouse fire early Sunday in North Philadelphia. Three or four residents of...

In an ongoing tug-of-war over legal bills, the Philadelphia Housing Authority is challenging the latest demand from the federal government to reimburse $726,400 in government funds for legal fees to...

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is demanding that the Obama administration rescind what he calls its "flawed and dangerous" decision requiring virtually all employers to offer...

TIM THOMAS' return to the nation's capital was less political and more successful. Playing about 10 blocks from the White House - a place he famously avoided 2 weeks ago with his Stanley...

- The Flyers entered the weekend with a chance to overtake the Rangers for the top spot in the Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference, yet you wouldn't know that by the way they started both...

State Democratic leaders say they hope to block any attempt by Republicans to delay the April 24 Pennsylvania primary. Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa and House Minority Leader Frank Dermody said...

NEW YORK - Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds set a career high with his 17th goal Sunday, but admitted the accomplishment felt hollow because of his team's 5-2 defeat by its nemesis, the New York...

A 21-year-old West Philadelphia man was fatally shot in his home about 4 p.m. Sunday. Homicide detectives said the victim, shot twice in the head, was found by his sister in the living room of a...

After the game, forward Andre Iguodala put it best: "You have to give [Miami] credit. They give us matchup problems. We have to play damn near perfect to beat a team like that." Which is...

Marian Gaborik (left) celebrates after beating Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov at the end of the second period, giving the Rangers a 2-1...