Gwen Snyder was waiting for the Broad Street Line last night when a train pulled up filled with what appeared to be trash — and not just typical SEPTA trash (like the nasty half-eaten food often left on seats) but…

Maria Pouchnikova NEW MATH: Corbett has defended the cut to education funding, denied making the cut, and tried to turn the budget crisis to his political advantage. Maria Pouchnikova NOISY PROTEST: When Gov. Corbett kicked off his re-election bid on…

No one has contacted City Paper to defend Judge Teresa Carr Deni’s 2007 decision to dismiss rape charges because the victim, who said she was forced to have sex at gunpoint by four men, was a prostitute who had previously…

There is an election this Tuesday, Nov. 5. You might not know about it: no candidates for president, mayor, or even councilperson or state representative, on the ballot. Here’s a reason to vote: Judge Teresa Deni, who in 2007 ruled…

Neal Santos The Richard Allen homes, in the Poplar section of North Philly. Evan M. Lopez Five years after the country’s worst economic disaster since the Great Depression, the dream of a decent home has become more elusive than ever…

Provided by Daniel Burch STUDENT DEATH: Laporshia Massey, 12, a student at Bryant Elementary School, became ill at school and died later that day. Sixth-grader Laporshia Massey died from asthma complications, according to her father, who says he rushed her…

David Lee Preston Bill Marimow leaving The Inquirer Monday night. Publisher Bob Hall’s firing of Inquirer editor Bill Marimow has pushed the bitter power struggle among owners of the hostility-ridden media company to a head. One owner, South Jersey political…

Many in the Inquirer newsroom blame Interstate General Media owner George Norcross, a powerful South Jersey political boss, for controversial changes made at the paper?most recently the firing of editor Bill Marimow. After press time for this week’s paper, City…

Evan M. Lopez Common Pleas Court Judge Rose Marie DeFino-Nastasi today ordered a new trial for Eugene Gilyard and Lance Felder, two men serving life sentences for a 1995 murder they say they did not commit. The men’s Post Conviction…