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WATCH: Mo’ne Davis Throws First Pitch at Dodgers Game

Mo’ne Davis’s magical summer continues:

City Life

School District Sued in Asthma Death

The estate of the sixth-grade girl who died after suffering an asthma attack last fall at a Philadelphia school has brought a wrongful death lawsuit […]

Restaurants

Tale of the Tape: Cheesesteak at Philip’s Steaks

Philip’s Steaks is the hipster rock answer to where to get the best cheesesteak on Passyunk Avenue. But that doesn’t mean it is the wrong answer. Far […]

City Life

Bucks County School Mourns Students Killed in Crash

The Bucks County Courier-Times reports on a vigil held Tuesday for three students of Council Rock High School who died in a one-vehicle accident over […]

Restaurants

The Revisit: Stateside

The folk of East Passyunk Avenue dwell within an embarrassment of restaurant riches, but when the weather’s as lovely as it was at the beginning […]

City Life

The Easy Way to Cut Your College Tuition in Half

A neighbor of mine is sending her son to a well-respected New England liberal arts college. A friend of one of my kids is starting […]

City Life

Comcast Will Sponsor NASCAR Series

Comcast will sponsor NASCAR’s secondary race series in a 10-year deal worth $200 million, Sports Business Daily reports.

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City Life

Principal, Teachers Held for Trial in Cheating Case

A former principal and three teachers at Hunting Park’s Cayuga Elementary School will face trial on charges they helped students cheat on standardized tests.

Property

Morning Headlines: Conshohocken Development Aimed At Younger Residents?

Modern office spaces continue to pop up here and there throughout the city, enticing young professionals who favor shared, open areas at work. However, as Jon […]

City Life

Will Michael Nutter Replace Chaka Fattah in Congress?

Chaka Fattah is talking — but not about that. Everybody else is talking — about who might replace Fattah if the legal scandals in his […]

City Life

The War on Household Germs Goes Nuclear

Last weekend I was at the Shore with my relations, as I am every August at this time of year. We’d just finished supper, and […]

City Life

Gillick Says Amaro’s Job Is Safe

Feels like old times: Tomorrow's back page pic.twitter.com/TMstPlMkAU — Philly Daily News (@PhillyDailyNews) September 3, 2014

City Life

Poll: Wolf Widens Lead Over Corbett

The news keeps getting worse for Gov. Tom Corbett. A new poll shows him 30 points behind opponent Tom Wolf in the November gubernatorial election, […]

City Life

Philly Becomes the Land of the Logos

When I first moved to Philadelphia six years ago, one of its chief faults (in my view) appeared to be this: It wasn’t New York. […]

PGW sign
City Life

Nutter Hopes for PGW Sale by Year’s End

The old deadline is dead. Now there’s a new one. Mayor Nutter, who failed in his efforts to get a City Council vote on selling […]