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Philadelphia sued CVS Health, Express Scripts, Optum and other pharmacy benefit managers in federal court Thursday, claiming they perpetuated the city's opioid crisis. The city claims the companies knowingly over-distributed…

New Jersey was hailed as a model for criminal justice reform nationally when state lawmakers eliminated cash bail more than a decade ago. Supporters of the move cheered that poor…

A revised agreement to restore the Chesapeake Bay is speeding toward final passage, after a key committee rejected Maryland attempts to strengthen parts of the plan and voted Tuesday to…

Hundreds of unregulated smoke shops that sell hemp products in the Philadelphia suburbs use fraudulent lab reports that leave their customers "dangerously uninformed" about the potency of the drugs they're…

A retirement program for non-city workers was proposed months ago, and this week City Council moved to establish a board to oversee the initiative. A bill introduced Thursday calls for…

The man who raped and killed 9-year-old Carol Ann Dougherty at a Bristol Township church in 1962 was finally identified Wednesday as William Schrader, a serial child abuser and longtime…

If you know every public bathroom in town…If leaping out of bed to pee is routine…If you’d like a kinder, gentler treatment option for an enlarged prostate…keep reading. Meet Bob,…