Philadelphia

A Philadelphia-based federal contracting firm's main shareholder faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to pretending a disabled veteran controlled her company in order to secure contracts from the General Services Administration. (iStock Photo)

Veterans preference fraud puts Philly woman in jail

Sarah Bedford · September 12, 2014 9:00 am

As DNC decides on 2016 convention site, experts say sites don’t help parties win states

As DNC decides on 2016 convention site, experts say sites don’t help parties win states

Steve Doty · August 14, 2014 6:02 pm

In this Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 photo, U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, left, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, standing by the microphones, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, second from right, appear at the Independence Beer Garden to kick off Philadelphia's final push for a winning bid to secure the 2016 Democratic Convention, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ed Hille) MAGS OUT; NEWARK OUT

Philly has early edge in Democratic convention bid

Hope Yen · August 11, 2014 4:12 pm

The New Jersey judge who denied Shaneen Allen's motion to dismiss charges filed against her in October for illegal possession of a firearm is the same one who gave Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice a pass on charges that he assaulted his fiancee.(iStock Image)

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Mother of two faces prison for willingly handing over her legally obtained gun

Ashe Schow · August 8, 2014 4:59 pm

FILE--In this July 24, 2014 file photo, a hospital worker embraces a woman near the scene of a shooting at the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pa. The deadly shooting at the suburban Philadelphia hospital is serving as yet another illustration of the hazards mental health professionals face on the job, and, experts say, the need for hospitals to do more to protect them. (AP Photo)

Hospital killing shows safety gap in mental health

Michael Rubinkam · August 3, 2014 5:33 pm

Meriam Ibrahim, left, and her husband, Daniel Wani, of Sudan, are greeted by family and friends shortly after arriving in Manchester, N.H., Thursday. Ibrahim, who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence that was later overturned, will make their new home in New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Meriam Ibrahim is finally in the U.S.

Ashe Schow · August 1, 2014 4:10 pm

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Big Ideas: On homelessness, strippers and 3D printing

Joseph Lawler · July 25, 2014 4:00 pm

FILE - Philanthropist H.G. "Gerry" Lenfest speaks at a news conference after a closed-door auction to buy the The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News in this Tuesday, May 27, 2014 file photo taken in Philadelphia. Lenfest, 84, became the sole owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News Thursday June 19, 2014, ending a turbulent year marked by a bitter feud among investors, a court-ordered buyout, and the plane crash death of co-owner Lewis Katz. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Owner: Philly newspapers will be vital legacy

Maryclaire Dale · June 19, 2014 5:20 am

FILE - A SEPTA regional train, the R7, rolls into 30th Street station in Philadelphia in this Nov. 16, 2004 file photo. Four hundred workers at a Philadelphia-area regional rail system went on strike Saturday morning June 14, 2014, shutting down 13 train lines that carry commuters to the suburbs and Philadelphia International Airport. Subways, trolleys and buses operated by SEPTA will continue to run. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

Riders relieved Philadelphia rail strike is over

Kathy Matheson · June 16, 2014 1:00 am

Unaware of the work stoppage Roy Pearson waits for a SEPTA commuter train at the East Falls commuter rail station in Philadelphia on Saturday June 14, 2014. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett asked President Barack Obama on Saturday to intervene the dispute between the Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and its engineers and electricians unions, which went on strike at midnight Friday, June 13. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)

Obama order forces Philly rail workers back on job

Maryclaire Dale · June 15, 2014 1:18 am

FILE - A SEPTA regional train, the R7, rolls into 30th Street station in Philadelphia in this Nov. 16, 2004 file photo. Four hundred workers at a Philadelphia-area regional rail system went on strike Saturday morning June 14, 2014, shutting down 13 train lines that carry commuters to the suburbs and Philadelphia International Airport. Subways, trolleys and buses operated by SEPTA will continue to run. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

Philadelphia commuter rail workers go on strike

Geoff Mulvihill · June 14, 2014 5:12 am

Former President Bill Clinton places a hand on former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell after Rendell spoke during a public memorial service for Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at Temple University in Philadelphia. Katz and six others died when his private jet crashed during takeoff on Saturday, May 31, 2014 in Massachusetts. He was 72. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Newspaper co-owner remembered as serious, impish

Maryclaire Dale · June 4, 2014 8:40 pm