More than 145 years ago, Frederick August Otto Schwarz, namesake of the world-famous retailer FAO Schwarz, and his three brothers from Westphalia, Ger...
AP | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York
PHILADELPHIA — Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia say a man has pleaded guilty to sending letters to New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin in whic...
Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
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NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home
RUMSON -- America's largest intercollegiate rowing competition, the Dad Vail Regatta, which has been held in Philadelphia since 1953, is moving it...
CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
Two animal advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to delay a plan to shoot hundreds of deer in Valley Forge National Historical Park, wes...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
PHILADELPHIA -- Tests at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia say a large number of people who got sick in the area fell victim to an unusually sev...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Pennsylvania man charged in a federal indictment targeting the Pagans Motorcycle Club today is due to enter a plea to a cha...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.11.2009 | Local
As the strike by transit workers in Philadelphia enters its fifth day, it is clear why unions have such a tough time in the United States, where fewer than one in eight workers is covered by a union contract.
Bronx News Network | Bronx News Network | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Just in time for Veteran's Day, the Jericho Project, a housing group, broke ground on a new building in Kingsbridge that will provide housing to low-i...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Martin Griff/Times of TrentonPhiladelphia Eagles Jon Runyan on the sidelines in the second half of a preseason game against the Carolina Panthers ...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Martin Griff/Times of TrentonPhiladelphia Eagles Jon Runyan on the sidelines in the second half of a preseason game against the Carolina Panthers ...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
LINDENWOLD -- A man was struck and killed by a Philadelphia-bound New Jersey Transit train earlier this afternoon near the rail line's Lindenwold ...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
LINDENWOLD -- A man was struck and killed by a Philadelphia-bound New Jersey Transit train earlier this afternoon near the rail line's Lindenwold ...
Posted 11.03.2009 | Comedy
As the New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies this week, the Eagles were crushing the Giants. This unprecedented moment in the New York/Phila...
ft.com | Jonathan Birchall | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Walmart has stepped up efforts to mobilise local political support for new store openings in US cities and urban areas that were last month identified...
Will Bunch | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment
New York became a black-hole-like force, sucking the energy from Philadelphia, stealing everything from our college grads to tourists. New York got Broadway, the UN, the World's Fair -- and baseball.
NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 10.30.2009 | Home
The Yankees departed Penn Station en route to Philadelphia to cheers and applause from the crowd. ...
Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
For those of you without access to a TV, here are a few options for watching the World Series online. We can't promise that all of these work (and yo...
Philly.com | Melissa Dribben | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
When, (did we say when? yes we did) the Phillies win this World Series, the city will receive a bonus gift from New York....
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home
Morris County prosecutors say Jose Feliciano was wanted in Philadelphia for assault, used multiple identifications and social security numbers ...
The Onion | The Onion | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home
PHILADELPHIA—The last time the Philadelphia Phillies brought a World Series title back to the City of Brotherly Love, the nation's financial sec...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
AP Photo/Bensalem Police DepartmentSusan FinkelsteinPHILADELPHIA -- A lawyer for a Philadelphia woman charged with offering sex for World Series t...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home
Jimmy Katz Pat Martino. Guitarist and composer Pat Martino has quite a story. The Philadelphia-based jazz artist started out as a teenager playing...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home
PHILADELPHIA -- A man who said he is from Lawrenceville and placed third in major Sudoku number puzzle contest here Saturday is under investigatio...
Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
Game 1 Philadelphia Phillies @ New York Yankees Wed Oct. 28 Game 2 Philadelphia Phillies @ New York Yankees Thu Oct. 29 Game 3 New York Yankees @ Phi...
City Guide. | City Guide | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home