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TerraPower Chooses Philly for $450M Medical Isotope Hub

A nuclear science company founded by Bill Gates has chosen South Philadelphia for a new manufacturing facility dedicated to producing radioactive medical isotopes used in cancer treatment. TerraPower Isotopes...

Little Walter’s Turns Neighbor’s Request Into Gluten-Free Pierogi Night

Little Walter’s, a modern Polish restaurant in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, now hosts a monthly gluten-free dinner service after a special event created for one neighbor with celiac disease drew...

Police release video of NoLibs murder suspects

Two men approach Amber Long and her mother on the 900 block of N. Front Street. / Courtesy of Philadelphia Police DepartmentThe Philadelphia Police...

River Ward events for the week of Jan. 22

Kindergarten registrationKindergarten registration for Hackett School’s 2014–2015 school year begins on Jan. 21 and is ongoing until June.The kindergarten open house at Hackett, located at...

Neighborhood news in brief for the week of Jan. 22

Richmond Street closure to begin this weekA two-year-long road closure of Richmond Street between Lehigh and Avenue and Cambria Street in Port Richmond that was...

Proposed law would withhold welfare from noncompliant sex offenders

Sex offenders who don’t register as required by state regulations won’t be able to collect welfare benefits if an upstate legislator’s bill becomes law.That’s all...

“Business boot camp” survivor

Luis Torrado of Torrado Construction in Port Richmond. PHOTO COURTESY OF Community College of PhiladelphiaWith the second wind of the polar vortex on its...

Winter Jam returns to the Piazza this weekend

Crowds flock by the thousands to the Piazza at Schmidt’s each January, braving the cold for the radio’s free Winter Jam concert. PHOTO COURTESY...
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