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The boys are back in town: former Phillies Shane Victorino, Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, and more will join a celebration of the team's 2008 World Series win this weekend.

Gun designers aren't overly worried about the potential public release of blueprints for 3D-printed guns, but 3D-printing experts worry about their effects outside the gun-owning community.

In advance of the release of a grand jury report detailing clergy abuse and cover-up allegations across Pennsylvania dioceses, the Diocese of Harrisburg released its own list of accused clergy members. It's also planning to scrub leaders' names from its buildings.

High-powered Philly defense attorney Perry de Marco Sr. has an eyebrow-raising side gig: making not-safe-for-work YouTube videos featuring comments about women, minorities, and even clients.

District Attorney Larry Krasner announced a new initiative Wednesday that will provide immediate support and advocacy to families of homicide victims. The program, called Philadelphia CARES, will recruit, train, and deploy 12 peer crisis responders.

For months, Philadelphia's women's prison has been part of a bold national experiment: providing inmates with opioid-based medication to help protect them from heroin overdoses when they are released.

For years, a curious little shack just off the Route 72 Causeway marked one's arrival to Long Beach Island. It was sadly totaled by Hurricane Sandy, but a new igloo for falcons (just go with me here) has taken its place.

Tastykakes are one of Philly's most iconic foods. So, naturally, Philadelphians have come up with some weird and wonderful hacks to make them even better.

Checkmate! A South Jersey boy just became the youngest U.S. chess master and the highest rated player of his age in the world.

In response to national outcry after its 119th season was announced, the Philadelphia Orchestra has revised its schedule to include two works by female composers, instead of zero.

Remember, way back in 2016, when a Philadelphia company raised $2.3 million in crowdfunding to create the world's quietest air conditioner? Well, they might've blown their initial timeline but they say they're now ready to freeze out the competition.

The latest edition of Clean Plates, which lists local restaurants health inspectors have recently closed (including a popular Penn hangout and Brewerytown Taproom), has broken a gross record.

As the debate over 3D-printed guns continues, staff writer Abraham Gutman has traced its origins all the way back to 1988.

Reacting to the attention New York Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has received since her primary win, columnist Dom Giordano writes her brand of socialism is no better than the ones that came before.

A New Jersey nonprofit spent a day offering free hugs in Newark and, as NJ.com reports in a touching story, broke down emotional barriers with strangers to spread the love, despite some confused looks.

Colombian-American artist Pedro Nel Ospina's upcycled sculpture garden looks like it could be the Magic Gardens of West Kensington. If Billy Penn's beautiful photos are any indication, it's just as magical, too.

Thirty Philly tech stakeholders have been meeting with the city for weeks to discuss improving the tech industry while lifting Philadelphians out of poverty — two birds, one stone. Technical.ly Philly's story on their mission will certainly inspire optimism. 

Prepare to become engrossed in the story of "Schlitterbahn's Tragic Slide," Texas Monthly's disturbing look at how a water park visionary went on an obsessive — and deadly — journey to build the world's tallest water slide.

Doreen St. Félix's essay for the New Yorker on the killing of Nia Wilson, an eighteen-year-old black woman from California, is a must-read. She calls Wilson's sad death "a reflection of how this country values the lives of black women."