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ABOVE PHOTO:  Shutterstock    Streets will be closed in parts of Center City in connection with the opening of the annual Wawa Welcome America! festival this Saturday. Delays can be expected and motorists are advised to use alternate routes, avoid this vicinity, if possible, allow for extra driving time and generally proceed with caution. Wawa…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Yelp   Philadelphia Business Journal Cheltenham Square Mall, having been foreclosed upon, has come up for sale. The 639,000-square-foot mall at 2385 Cheltenham Ave. in Cheltenham, Pa., last sold in 2005 for $71.5 million. At the time, New York-based Thor Equities bought the center from Simon Property Group with the assumption of a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Sen. Anthony H. Williams at the  podium speaks on the legalization of marijuana.  (Photo by Denise Clay)   The legalization of marijuana was the subject of a daylong discussion at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on Saturday. By Denise Clay The subject of marijuana has been on the minds of Pennsylvanians since…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  D.A. Seth Williams Last week, District Attorney Seth Williams took the unusual step of officially announcing that an Investigating Grand Jury will be looking into allegations that several Philadelphia legislators accepted gifts and money in exchange for political favors and votes. “I have concluded that there is only one way to get to…

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By Kiarra Solomon @by_kiarra Throughout Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of youth (18 and under) have had some sort of contact with the law per year. And although the numbers of youth delinquency are down significantly, according to the State’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency website, the numbers are still high. Interaction with the law for…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Historical photos featuring a glimpse of the life of columnist Chuck Stone on display at last week’s PABJ memorial at Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church.  (Photo by Denise Clay)   Chuck Stone was remembered for the journalistic trail he blazed and the lives he touched at a memorial service on Saturday. By Denise Clay…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Marie Hunter and Christopher White   On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at approximately 12:00 PM, Officers responded to the Barry Elementary School located at 5900 Race Street for a report of narcotics in a classroom. Upon their arrival at the school, Officers were notified by the complainant’s teacher that the complainant (6-year-old female student) was…

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Philadelphia City Council’s Committee on Commerce & Economic Development has approved Councilman W. Wilson Goode, Jr.’s New Living Wage Standard Bill, permanently raising the city’s minimum wage standard in January. The new standard requires that the employer shall pay each employee an hourly wage equal to at least the higher of: (a)150 percent of the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Philadelphia Convention Center woes–Teamsters Local 107 yell Monday, May 12, 2014, in Philadelphia. Teamsters Local 107 is protesting an alleged lockout by management at the convention center on Monday morning.  (AP Photo/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Alejandro A. Alvarez)   By Kiarra Solomon (@by_kiarra) The $780 million expansion of the Philadelphia Convention Center, fully funded by…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Cuisine by OIC-back row, standing (left to right): Lance Ellis of North Philadelphia; Corinne Sanford of North Philadelphia; OIC Chef Instructor Chalie Schmidt; Christina Guiden of Olney; and Jonathan Cox of West Philadelphia. Front row, seated (left-right): Atif Bostic, Vice President at Citizens Bank and Board Chair for Philadelphia OIC; Andrew Swinney, President…

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