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The founder of the Texas group banned by a federal judge from posting free files for 3D-printed guns online is now selling them online instead.

A doughnut-themed video is causing quite a stir in York, Pennsylvania. The police department there recently filmed a lip-sync challenge featuring a controversial donut shop and now it's dividing the city.

Former Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Tuesday for attempting to strong-arm campaign donors during his failed 2014 gubernatorial campaign.

A Philly homicide detective is under internal review for allegedly writing a racially charged letter to a colleague. The note was apparently about leftover food. 

Six years after it was cut, Pennsylvania's General Assistance program, which gives the state's most vulnerable a small monthly grant, is being reinstated. The problem is no one knows about it.

Carmela Apolonio Hernandez and her four children have been living in sanctuary at the Church of the Advocate in North Philly for nearly ten months. For the first day of school, the children risked challenging ICE by attending classes.

A Fairhill woman has been calling her son and others out on Facebook for selling drugs. She's received threats for it, but she's still fighting back. 

As the countdown to the NFL season opener continues, injured Eagles are making plans for the start of the season and a quarterback decision is imminent.

Industry is waning in Kensington as the neighborhood becomes more residential. For one cabinetmaker, that meant selling his warehouse to be turned into condos.

Women's health can be taboo in some cultures, leaving young women without critical health information. So Philly activists are changing the game and starting (sometimes awkward!) conversations.

You think you have too many clothes? The Walnut Street Theatre's production of Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn will feature a whopping 251 holiday-themed costumes. 

It's never too late to follow a new dream. Believe the word of one Philly cop who served three decades in law enforcement before becoming a yoga teacher.

The face of obstetrics and gynecology is shifting rapidly from male- to female-dominated. Turns out it's what young women want.

Hindsight is no reason to attack judicial independence by reviewing the judge who let the father of Kayden Mancuso have unsupervised visits with the girl before he killed her, writes Temple law professor Jules Epstein.

A 29-second clip from a 2008 town meeting helped solidify the myth of John McCain and defined the coming American crisis, writes columnist Will Bunch.

Like every other state, New Jersey provides some compensation to crime victims or their survivors. But as a concerning NJ.com investigation reveals, it's frequently failing its own charitable mission.

The reason Delaware is starting to sell inmates playing cards featuring the victims of cold cases makes for an odd story, via WHYY.

The use of GPS ankles monitors in the American criminal justice system rose 140 percent between 2005 and 2015. For offenders, they're just a new form of imprisonment, the Guardian reports.

An NPR investigation into confusing U.S. Education Department data on school shootings paints a worryingly unclear picture of how many guns go off in American schools. 

The revolution will be train-ified? A short-term pilot project to extend Regional Rail to Phoenixville could change infrastructure as we know it, reports PlanPhilly.