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Funeral services are to be held on Friday, June 21st at Deliverance Evangelistic Church located at 2100 Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia. The viewing is to take place from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM  EST and the home going service will take place from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST. 

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In an effort to accommodate the rapidly growing spiritual and educational needs of the Philadelphia community, Masjidullah, Inc. believed now was the time to move to a larger facility.  This purchase has enabled Masjidullah to acquire a sanctuary, school, and office building.

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Philadelphia officials have identified an inspector who fatally shot himself a week after a building collapse that killed six people as a dedicated 16-year veteran. Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison says 52-year-old inspector Ronald Wagenhoffer was found dead in his truck Wednesday night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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District Attorney Seth Williams said the scope and depth of the grand jury process will help prosecutors, the city and others to “completely and appropriately investigate” what happened when a downtown building under demolition collapsed onto a neighboring Salvation Army Thrift Store, killing two employees and four customers. 

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To know the Rev. Dr. G. Daniel Jones, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Germantown, is to love him. Recently, about 700 people came to the church to show him the love and to wish him a happy retirement from the church that he’s served for 31 years. Jones, 73, will become Pastor Emeritus of the church in July.

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According to AAA, the summer travel season begins this weekend, when 34.8 million Americans will travel 50 or more miles from home over the Memorial Day holiday. Nine out of ten travelers will take to the nation’s highways, according to the AAA forecast released this week.

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Father’s Day event details here.

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One cannot comprehend the level of danger that would lead a mother to send her child away to ensure his safety. But that is what Grace Sankoh did 12 years ago when she helped her son, Adams Kamara Daramy, flee war-torn Sierra Leone at the age of 6 to seek refuge in the United States.

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State Sen. Anthony H. Williams put another solution on the table today for children in Philadelphia, offering to boost the school district’s coffers with a pair of bills that would increase the liquor-by-the-drink tax and authorize a cigarette tax for the city. 

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When then-Sen. Barack Obama was on the campaign trail, there was wailing and gnashing of teeth on White supremacist websites around the world due to the perception that a Black man with the power of the Presidency would enslave whites as a first official act.

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