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A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.

SCORPIO : This is the time to get out there. Even if normally reserved, it is important to interact.

The awards highlight success stories from the city's public schools. The sixth annual EDDY awards went to a student leadership group, a fundraising effort, and a program that teaches law to middle and high school students.

The site of the future Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple has been announced by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 10:15 pm US/Eastern CHESTER, Pa. Two suspects in a stray-bullet killing near Philadelphia are in custody a ' but one of them managed to get control of a Delaware County detective's car and drive several miles before being caught again.

Archaeologists trying their luck at the future site of a Philadelphia casino have hit it big.

A letter President Abraham Lincoln wrote to a boy whose friends didn't believe he had met the commander in chief is being sold in Philadelphia.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A state lawmaker is questioning why a casino industry association in Pennsylvania that is headed by a former state Supreme Court chief justice is not registered as a lobbying group, despite its apparent attempts to influence debate on gambling legislation.

A Philadelphia man has been ordered to stand trial in a botched home invasion robbery in eastern Pennsylvania that left a Florida man dead more than two years ago.

A police detective alleges that former Washington Police Chief Charles Ramsey, despite past denials, ordered mass arrests of hundreds of demonstrators who were protesting annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 2002.

November 18, 2009 -- The Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit released a sketch of a man suspected in a series of rapes in the Kensington section of the city.

A bankruptcy auction of the company that publishes The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News has been postponed while creditors appeal a key ruling.

Top Pennsylvania state officials won't be getting the automatic cost-of-living salary increases this year that they usually enjoy.

The jury must decide if the killing was first- or second-degree murder, and they've been hearing from eyewitnesses.

Standing tall within the clouds, the view of the smokestack atop the old Pennsylvania Railroad steam plant near Amtrak's 30th Street station ended Sunday morning with a thunderous boom.

A suburban Philadelphia judge is hearing testimony on the degree of guilt of a woman and her boyfriend in the murder of her father.

QUAKERTOWN, Pa. - November 17, 2009 -- Police say a man wanted for murder remains at large following a pursuit Tuesday afternoon.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - A series of railroad-track improvements will create more than a thousand jobs in the Philadelphia region, Gov.

A U.S. Airways airliner en route from Philadelphia to London made an unscheduled stop in Boston Monday after the pilot deemed a passenger's behavior unruly and decided to have him removed from the plane.

Share + Nov 17, 2009 6:50 am US/Eastern Philadelphia police are investigating a home invasion that led to the shooting death of a Kingsessing woman Tuesday morning.