Philadelphia, PA

LABOR DAY MESSAGE: Don’t Let Workers Pay The Price For Wall Street

President Richard Bloomingdale, Penna. AFL-CIO
BY RICHARD BLOOMINGDALE/ More Pennsylvania workers are celebrating the Labor Holiday than in any other state in the nation, but the celebrations are tempered by the…

No Jobs For 4 Out Of 5 Unemployed

BY HEIDI SCHIERHOLZ/ Last month the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the June report from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, showing that job openings held roughly steady in…

POLS ON THE STREET: 2011 Primary Lies Heavy On Their Minds

This patch is for GOP biker club that is being formed in city.
BY JOE SHAHEELI/ Both Democrat and Republican Parties in this city are poised and at the ready to…

Local 401 Throws A Wildwood Wingding

HOST Joseph Dougherty, business manager of Ironworkers Local 401, finds himself flanked by Business Agent Edward Sweeney and TWU COPE Director James Mc Bride. Photo by Lee Buchanan
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Cop recants ID in murder case

MURDER CASES can be mysteries.
In one case, however, authorities aren’t scratching their heads over who did it. They believe they have the right man.

Warrant issued for ‘pantless rapist’

The attack was as bold as it was violent: A man raped, choked and beat a woman across the street from police headquarters.

Answers elusive in case of Darby man charged in Maryland with fatally running over his mother with van

How could this happen?
That’s what the head of the Delaware County Office of Services for the Aging wants to know, after Maryland authorities charged Darby Borough oddball Steven Molin with…


Trailblazing Philadelphia cop Carol Keenan dies

Carol Keenan, a Goretti girl who became the first female homicide detective in Philadelphia, wasn’t about to let cancer get in the way of her having a great time with…

High Holy Days stir the soul to change

CAN PEOPLE change? Judaism’s response: a resounding yes! It is this core belief that drives our concept of repentance in the High Holy Days.

N.J. cuts off rapist’s castration request

A convicted rapist trapped behind bars in New Jersey state prison claims he’s also a woman trapped inside the body of a man.

Briefly… CITY/REGION

Man slain in car in S. Philly Police are seeking the killers after a shooting death early yesterday in South Philadelphia.

Solomon Jones: Hail Labor Day, the rare inexpensive holiday

I LIKE LABOR DAY, and that’s fitting, because I’ve labored in nearly every kind of job. I worked in an animal research lab and as a police dispatcher, in a…


PHA to consultants: ‘Send us a bill and stop’

In a bold move yesterday, John Street essentially fired all consultants and law firms that had contracts with the Philadelphia Housing Authority and raked in roughly $40 million since 2007.

Phlyin’ Flugtag team just can’t get a head

A local team had high hopes of flying its gigantic, homemade replica of the Phillie Phanatic off a 30-foot platform into the Delaware River turned to heartbreak yesterday when Major…

Girlfriend charged in rolling car accident at Manayunk Wall

A 19-year-old woman was charged with DUI and aggravated assault after her 20-year-old boyfriend was run over by a car early yesterday while he was trying to push it up…

Darby man accused of killing his mom, 85

THERE WAS always something about Steven Molin that bothered folks in Darby, some hard-to-describe vibe that made him seem off-putting.

Philadelphia woman hears knock, shows she’s armed, police confiscate gun

After her son was killed in 2008, Sherderian Sutton got a Philadelphia license to carry a concealed weapon and a small Ruger pistol to protect herself and her surviving children.