Central Arizona’s ongoing wildfires claimed the lives of 19 firefighters Sunday, eliminating nearly 20 percent of the Prescott Fire Department. All part of the same […]

Starting today, people are going to start complaining about SEPTA a lot more. Everybody’s favorite transit company instituted its long-threatened fare increases today: Subways, buses […]

It came down to the wire (of course), but at 10 p.m. last night, Gov. Corbett signed a $28.4 billion state budget for the new […]

“I’m not even supposed to be here.” The statement made by Lebron James in his post-championship interview was so simplistic that its power was lost […]

If you were a former football great with a honking big IRS lien, how might you look to pay it off? In Terrell Owens’s case, […]

Rounding up the weekend’s LGBT headlines.

The day after the Supreme Court struck down a crucial provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, Philadelphia state Representative Brian Sims and colleague Steve […]

The marijuana menace apparently has not yet been eradicated from out fair city. On Sunday, radical group of protestors, united under the “Smoke Down Prohibition” […]

This time on “No, really, we have your best interests at heart,” the Senate has gone on summer vacation and left America’s college students to […]

As the Obama family’s first official trip to Africa wraps up tomorrow, ignore all the fanfare and try, for a moment, to wrap your head […]

Philadelphia, it’s time: Let’s secede from Pennsylvania and make our own state. Sound crazy? Maybe. But as we neared the legislature’s budget deadline in Harrisburg […]

One of the best parts of being a writer is that the job lets you be nosy professionally. If I’m curious what all those new […]

A live-action peep at the rally.

10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who has cystic fibrosis, received a much-publicized lung transplant on June 12th this year. Soon after the surgery, her mother said today, […]

Andrea Straub, an agent at Prudential Fox & Roach, along with her fellow realtor husband Jonathan, has been accused by police of depositing a dead snake […]