• Veterans Advisory Commission Holds Resource Fair At City Hall

  Philadelphia’s veterans can get information on dozens of services and benefits today at the second annual Veteran’s Resource Fair at City Hall. ';We’re going to have approximately 26 tables where people will be able to come over and get information, get counseling,'; says Darrell Clarke, president of Philadelphia City Council. He says the Council’s Veterans ...

• Isiah Leggett talks Montgomery County nightlife woes

  Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett addressed the 20-plus-member Nighttime Economy Task Force on Monday at its first-ever meeting in Silver Spring, BethesdaNow.com reported. The task force has six months to come up with solutions to problems that could require major changes in the county's suburban culture to fix, and Leggett said there are ...

• Report Urges End To Automatic Teacher Tenure in Philadelphia Public Schools

  PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A new study says Philadelphia could do a better job of hiring and evaluating its public school teachers. The report by ...

• Waters loses for Superior Court

  HARRISBURG - Allegheny County Court Judge Jack McVay defeated Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Joseph Waters Jr. on Tuesday for the Democratic nomination for a vacant seat on the state Superior Court. McVay, 56, a former pharmacist who is serving his sixth year in the county's Family Court, beat Waters, 60, a retired Philadelphia police captain who is in his fourth year on the bench, in ...

• Bachtle wins in Bucks in top suburban race

  Despite a notably low turnout, local government candidates battled it out Tuesday in primaries across the four Pennsylvania suburban counties, with two Republican incumbents in Bucks County facing primary challenges for row offices. The prothonotary's race was the heated contest in Bucks. With more than nine-tenths of voting districts reporting, incumbent Pat Bachtle, elected in 1994 as ...

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