Category — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Daniel Rubin: City officials have been trying to attract conventioneers with a campaign called “Philadelphia: The Complete Package,” which pictures iconic Philly sites rising over the gleaming skyline. Here’s another idea: Think outside the cheesesteak.

A 24-year-old Philadelphia man was shot and killed early today inside an Upper Darby bar that has been the site of a series of violent incidents, police said.

A woman charged with stealing a watch from Joaquin Rivera as the Puerto Rican community leader was dying in a Frankford hospital waiting room has agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor theft charges, according to her lawyer.

The principal of Christ the King Regional School in Haddonfield who was placed on unpaid administrative leave this week allegedly stole two pairs of designer sunglasses while impersonating an FBI agent, police said.

Authorities in Delaware County are investigating the death of an 18-year-old male student from Interboro High School who was found hanged Wednesday night in an old mill in Chester city.

Police have identified two men killed early Wednesday in a gun battle in West Philadelphia.

Walk-ons are welcome at Saturday’s opening auditions for the Eagles 2010 cheerleading squad.

HARRISBURG - Jurors in the political corruption trial of former State Rep. Mike Veon and three ex-aides got back to work this morning, a day after one member told the judge they “were turning” on each other.

Acting New Jersey Environmental Commissioner Bob Martin yesterday approved a policy including the state’s first bear hunt in five years.

AMSTERDAM - A Holocaust survivor maintains in a new book that Anne Frank distracted younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales - an account disputed by at least one Frank authority and a childhood friend of the diarist.

The Powerball jackpot has grown to $28 million, or $13.6 million cash, after no one had the Luck of the Irish in last night’s St. Patrick’s Day drawing.

Colleen “JihadJane” LaRose pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges during her arraignment in a crowded federal courtroom.

A daring drag race through Center City overnight has left two dead after the driver and passenger of an unsuspecting car were slammed by one of the racers, police say.

Hao Luu’s troubles began Dec. 2 when, Asian activists say, he was accosted in the hall of South Philadelphia High by a student who yanked the earphones out of his ears.

The public and the School Reform Commission got a first glimpse yesterday of a new funding formula for city schools.

Every school district in New Jersey will see cuts in state aid - some far deeper than local education officials said they were led to expect - according to figures the Christie administration released yesterday.

For 42 years, the black-and-white yearbook image of Candace Clothier - ’60s-style bangs beneath a white mini-bow - had haunted a graying band of police investigators.

During a daylong hearing on the city’s $3.87 billion budget that was packed with protesters, several City Council members suggested higher property taxes as a better solution to the city’s financial woes than Mayor Nutter’s proposed levies on garbage collection and sugared beverages.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Burlington County Hot Air Committee (HAC). Please step off the drawbridge.Here in our palace, we HACs enjoy the loftiest of perspectives on the recent struggles of our (mostly) Republican brothers and sisters at the Burlington County Bridge Commission and Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Likely Republican U.S. House candidate Jon Runyan took questions on the issues for about an hour yesterday, saying little more than what he’s for and against.

Victoria Arter was stunned by the loudspeaker announcement.”Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers,” she recalled hearing the calm male voice begin. “Will all the black people please leave the store. Thank you.”

TRENTON - Family-planning centers that largely serve low-income women would lose all of their state funding - $7.5 million - under the budget Gov. Christie proposed Tuesday.

The principal of Christ the King Regional School in Haddonfield was placed on unpaid administrative leave yesterday after Camden Diocese officials learned he was charged with theft and impersonating an FBI officer.

It is a warehouse of good intentions, a large industrial space in East Camden filled almost to the rafters with relief items for Haiti earthquake victims.

The Philadelphia VA Medical Center was hit with a $227,500 fine by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday for poor care in a prostate cancer program that resulted in 97 veterans getting incorrect doses of radiation.

The tiny primates - their old-man faces framed by manes of golden hair - scampered to the window to investigate the woman gazing at them.

In this corner, for the defense, from Pittsburgh, coroner of choice in the deaths of Elvis Presley, JonBenet Ramsey, and Vincent Foster: Cyril H. Wecht.

The Montgomery County woman who calls herself “JihadJane” has confessed to the FBI about her alleged role in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist, according to two people close to the investigation.

Concerned that its top academic schools are not racially and economically diverse enough, Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is proposing major changes in how students are admitted to them.

In a major change on Mayor Nutter’s leadership team, Managing Director Camille Cates Barnett - the administration’s second-in-command - will resign effective June 30.