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Minimally invasive surgery for the excruciating back pain that can be caused by sciatica didn't work as well as the conventional procedure in a Dutch study.

Police say several people have become victims of assault on the Broad Street Line.

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This is outrageous : More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason .... The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club.

Nearly 40 years after the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission went to court to seek equal education for white and minority students in the city, the Philadelphia School District is poised to settle the landmark desegregation case and guarantee a number of reforms to benefit black and Hispanic children.

Health officials in suburban Philadelphia say a 19-year-old woman with swine flu has died.

Share + Jul 8, 2009 6:16 pm US/Eastern DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI, Associated Press Writer ROCHESTER, N.H. A New Hampshire gas station clerk called police just to let them know he had given two men permission to sleep in their SUV in his parking lot for the night.

A garage owner has acknowledged selling inspection stickers for a tractor-trailer that caused a crash in January on Interstate 76 outside Philadelphia, killing a man.

The Philadelphia Zoo's two female African elephants have arrived at a southwestern Pennsylvania sanctuary run by the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.

Lawyers for former state Sen. Vincent Fumo say the sentence prosecutors are seeking for his fraud convictions would mean the Philadelphia Democrat will die in prison.

Philadelphia has a new specialty court -- dubbed "mental health court" -- for eligible offenders who require specialized mental health treatment.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has the distinction of being one of the stops in ROADSHOWa TMs first season, taped in 1996.

Artist Steve Powers is leaving his infamous ESPO tag behind as he returns to his native city of Philadelphia for a collaboration with the Mural Arts Program to revive the lost art of sign painting.

Flash forward a decade and ROADSHOW is back "where it all began" for the popular PBS series, as well as for the United States.

It was a night of gun violence in the city of Philadelphia on Sunday into Monday.

The problem of bed bugs has been rapidly rising in this country. The tiny insects that feed on human blood are extremely hard to find and eliminate.

Philadelphia's mayor plans to stop planned pay increases for more than 20,000 city workers.

Authorities have identified the 19-year-old worker killed in an eastern Pennsylvania Fourth of July fireworks accident.

An eastern Pennsylvania lawyer has pleaded guilty to failing to pay $1.9 million in taxes on $5 million in unreported income.