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Evesham Mayor Randy Brown presides over the council meeting on Mar. 17, 2015. ( TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer )
Overbrook
Boys, 15, to be charged in dog-walker slaying
Israel
Netanyahu revisits words on statehood
Judicial Corruption
Former Traffic Court Judge Willie Singletary. (ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Former Traffic Court judge gets 20 months for lying to FBI agents
Latest News
Officers in Tate-Brown death cleared of wrongdoing
Raucous protest over Tate-Brown death
N.J. Education Dept. to review student PARCC privacy
Dem leaders drop support for Morales
Snow due on first day of spring, but it's been worse
Freak NYC accident kills ex-Philly woman
Toddler survives after 101 minutes of CPR
Bucks' Marine to receive Silver Star
Sports
Villanova´s JayVaughn Pinkston and Darrun Hilliard double-team Lafayette´s Nick Lindner. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer)<br />
'Nova's next game carries weight
Phillies pitcher Ken Giles arrives at Bright House Field. (David Swanson/Staff Photographer)
Giles never forgets his fallen friend
 
Inside the Sixers: Sixers' dilemma: Winning is losing
 
Lafayette's O'Hanlon: 'I can go back to being a Villanova fan'
 
Gaudreau carries Flames past Flyers
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Business
Ted Ruger stands in front of the Penn law school at 34th and Sansom Streets in University City. (MEAGHAN POGUE / Staff Photographer)
New Penn law school dean has grip on complexity
The $1.36 billion budget calls for 70 more employees and would make permanent the all-night subway service on Fridays and Saturdays that began as an experiment this year. (Joseph Kaczmarek)
Bigger SEPTA budget, but no fare hikes
 
Drug company's switch to keep patent draws fire
 
PlayStation Vue is streaming TV with a local twist
 
Indicted home health company closes, 1,324 lose jobs
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Lifestyle
Bob Carr poses in living room where he lives in the home occupied by President Woodrow Wilson in Princeton, and has restored the turn of the 20th century Tudor to all its original glory. (Tom Gralish/Staff Photographer)
Doing Woodrow Wilson's house right
 
Changing Skyline: Co-working space that's funkier, cheaper
 
Ask Jennifer Adams: Repairing a concrete garage floor
 
Sideshow: Mo'ne Davis moves into movies!
A&E
Seasoned bartender Resa Mueller of Twenty Manning: "If it turns ugly, there are always other people to talk to" if you have your blind date at the bar.
Ask the barkeep: Tips for a blind first date
 
'The Divergent Series: Insurgent': More action, cuter haircuts
 
'The Gunman': Humanitarian crisis, Congo massacres, obviousness
 
'An Honest Liar': The Amazing Randi's life of trickery and debunking fakers
Food
Brittany Jordan, 15 (right), samples her cereal.
Taking the good-food fight to middle school
 
With eagerness, they tackle the skills of food preparation
 
Asian dumplings make a quick easy meal
 
Table Talk: High Street sibling in Manhattan
Health & Science
The McDonald’s franchise at 52d and Columbia in West Philadelphia put portable toilets in the parking lot after the toilets backed up. It continued serving food for four days. (ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer)
Sewage leaks; McDonald's stays open
A “bomb” using dish soap and liquid nitrogen explodes on the steps of the Franklin Institute. (DARRYL MORAN/Franklin Institute)
'Ooooh! Cool!': Sneak peek of Philly Science Festival
 
Wolf: Let's make PA 'fertile ground' for energy biz
 
Study finds frequent inaccurate diagnosis of breast biopsies
 
Christie administration seems to be open to edible pot
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Michael Smerconish
Inquirer Columnist
Smerconish: 7 facts of Clinton email scandal
Trudy Rubin
Inquirer Columnist
GOP's Iran letter a reckless ploy with real risks
Mike Newall
Inquirer Columnist
Teacher unearths 1,000s of texts the district forgot
Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer and New Jersery columnist Kevin Riordan photographed Jan. 19, 2010. Riordan, Kevin
Kevin Riordan
Inquirer Columnist
For Deptford couple, it's never too late for tattoos
Harold Jackson
Inquirer Editorial Page Editor
Frat chant a reminder of dog named n-word
Mike Sielski
Mike Sielski
Inquirer Sports Columnist
O'Hanlon can be a 'Nova fan again
Editorials
File: Disgraced New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver leaves a federal courthouse in New York. Silver, who was arrested in January on bribery charges, was indicted on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 for extortion, mail and wire fraud under the color of his official duties. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Money for nothing
 
Wolf: Let's make PA 'fertile ground' for energy biz
 
A lesson on free speech
 
Green infusion
Commentary
Ed Rendell: "Trade might not be a kitchen-table issue, but it´s been helping American families put food on their tables for years."
Rendell: For the middle class, trade issues are crucial
 
A GOP contender from Ohio
 
Rights agenda requires unity
 
Focus right-to-work debates on the workers
Currents
Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers questions about recent allegations of an improperly used email account during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Smerconish: 7 facts of Clinton email scandal
 
Worldview: A reckless ploy with real risks
 
It's the maddest time of the year
 
To defend freedom of religion, first understand faith
Obituaries
Nancy Sloane Coates
Nancy Sloane Coates, 94, nurse and volunteer
Nancy Sloane Coates, 94, of Haverford, whose Community Clothes Charity raised millions of dollars for Philadelphia-area causes, died Thursday, March 12, of congestive heart failure at home.
Matilda DeFlaviis Fumo
Matilda Fumo, 92, guided tourists around Phila.
Matilda DeFlaviis Fumo could often be seen in the Independence Hall neighborhood, turned out as a well-dressed 18th century lady.
Andy Fraser (Photo via AndyFraser.com)
Andy Fraser | Bassist for Free, 62
Andy Fraser, 62, the bassist for British blues-rock band Free who cowrote its mammoth 1970 anthem "All Right Now," died Monday in Temecula, Calif., where he lived.
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 Four young professionals tackle a career-making project, the new Comcast tower.

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Not quite themselves, really: &quot;The Royals&quot; features (from left) Hatty Preston, Jake Maskall, Lydia Rose Bewley, Vincent Regan, Elizabeth Hurley, Alexandra Park, and William Moseley as a fictional ruling family. (Paul Blundell / E! Entertainment)
'The Royals': The ultimate (fictional) celebrity family
From left to right: Tom Lomax UNCF president stand with Lisa and Mayor Michael Nutter at the UNCF MayorÕs Ball on March 6,2015 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Maggie Henry Corcoran / For the Philadelphia Inquirer)
Cause & Celebration: UNCF Mayor's Masked Ball
Patti LaBelle with her &quot;Dancing With the Stars&quot; partner, Artem Chigvintsev. (Craig Sjodin / ABC)
Patti LaBelle on 'Dancing with the Stars'
"Insurgent" stars (from left) Theo James, Teller, and Shailene Woodley. "As long as Peter is alive,´ Teller says of his character, "I will be playing him." (Andrew Cooper / Lionsgate)
Miles Teller: From Downingtown to Tinsel Town
Mike Ski works on tattooing one of Jessica Bernard´s index fingers. Tattooing the fingers is difficult, and until recently, such tattoos often carried a stigma. (David Maialetti / Staff Photographer)
Finger tattoos, once off limits, now a trendlet
&quot;It´s a hobby, but at least you break even,&quot; says Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association´s Steve Finke of renting a hive seasonally.
Why buy the farm, when you can rent the bees, or chickens, or goats?
Planters are among the offerings from a Philadelphia program that lets you put storm water to good use.
Rain: Don't let a good thing go
Teresa Mallon and Robert Giamboy Jr. were married on New Year´s Eve.
Love: They met and married on New Year's Eve
Photography
Temple 73, Bucknell 67
Constitution 87, Math,Civics, & Sciences 46
Neumann-Goretti 75, Imhotep Charter 67
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Changing Skyline: Co-working space that's funkier, cheaper
 
Kris Jenkins provides yet another weapon for 'Nova
 
Lafayette's O'Hanlon: 'I can go back to being a Villanova fan'
 
'Nova has a lot riding on the next game
 
O'Brien: Roman Catholic, King vie to make history in state final
 
Inside the Sixers: Sixers' dilemma: Winning is losing
 
'The Wrecking Crew!': You've definitely heard them
 
Review: 'Gett' a surprisingly gripping courtroom drama
 
'The Divergent Series: Insurgent': More action, cuter haircuts
 
'The Gunman': Humanitarian crisis, Congo massacres, obviousness
 
Sideshow: Mo'ne Davis moves into movies!
 
PhillyDeals: Puzzling over how to grab back Pa.'s share of gaming revenue
 
Worldview: INSIDE
 
Worldview: Fear-mongering secures win
 
Lafayette's Lindner is fiercely focused
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Maikel Franco. (David Swanson/Staff Photographer)
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Special Reports
Joncarl Lachman, chef-owner at Noord, is working on a 50- to 60-seat French/North African bistro in the Italian Market.
Chefs launch brands in more than one place
Three years after her son Brayden´s death, Heather Poole posts on Facebook articles about tip-overs along with a short prayer.
Tip-overs: Deadly dangers in the home
John (from left), Peggy, Chris and Pete Koutroubas, all siblings. John manages the Little Pete´s at 17th and Chancellor Streets and the others work at the Fairmount location.
Death of Little Pete's all-night diner
Nearly two and a half years have passed since the university removed the large bronze statue of Paterno with his finger in the air in victory from its perch outside the stadium. Every game, fans leave mementos at the grassy spot where it used to stand. (Bobby Chen)
Penn Staters still seethe over Paterno's firing
Dangerous drivers mean ‘chaos' on Philly streets
Andrew Blasetti (center) leads the team of structural engineers behind the new Comcast tower. They are (from left) Angela Heinze, Stephen Kane, and Lou Ross. At right is their boss, Mark Coggin of Thornton Tomasetti’s local office. (Ed Hille/Staff Photographer)
Young engineers tackle Comcast tower project
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