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Crime

Point Breeze: This Week In The News – Brick Thrown Through A Window, Flowers Stolen From Front Of Woman’s Home

August 11, 2017 Jonathan Ginsburg

In case you missed it, we found a few places where people were talking about things happening in Point Breeze: Woman Gets Brick Thrown Through Window: Point Breeze resident Lisha Davis reported on Thursday, August

Klein Fellowship- Income Inequality

Olney: This Week In The News – Alumni Soccer Reunion, Skydiving Seniors and more

July 14, 2017 Brianna Spause

In case you missed it, we found a few places where people are talking about things happening in Olney: Cardinal Dougherty and an Alumni Soccer Match Worth Watching – Steve Schmidt, 1985 graduate of Cardinal

Housing

Point Breeze: This Week In The News – Lost Snake Found, Spring Real Estate Booming

July 6, 2017 Jonathan Ginsburg

In case you missed it, we found a few places where people were talking about things happening in Point Breeze: Owner Reunites With Lost 7-Foot-Long Snake – A rogue Burmese python was found and returned to

Featured Stories

Technically Philly: DroneCast, The Flying Advertising Company That’s Shaking Things Up

January 9, 2015

For 19-year-old Raj Singh, disrupting the norms of advertising is the name of the game. Singh, whose first name is really GauravJit but goes by Raj, came up with the disruption when he had the

Cedar Park

Cedar Park: Neighborhood Named One of Philly’s Best Trick-or-Treating Spots

October 29, 2014

Halloween is creeping right around the corner and candy-loving kids are in luck. The city was named the fourth-best in the country for trick-or-treating by Zillow. If that wasn’t good enough, Cedar Park earned the title of

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Lawncrest

Northeast Philadelphia: Lawncrest Block Plagued by Murders

April 3, 2014

On Jan. 19, 2014,  the people living on the 300 block of Stevens Street in Northeast Philadelphia found themselves headlining the local news after two residents were victims of  murder. Donna Muller, 49, and her

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