Results tagged “departmentofhumanservices”

  • Every year when the University of Pennsylvania's students go home for the summer, they leave a shocking amount and variety of appliances, clothing, and other items behind. Until now, enterprising neighbors in West Philadelphia have simply picked through the goods and claimed what they wanted, with the rest ending up in landfills. But this year, for the first time, Penn officials are collecting and sorting the items, and starting tomorrow, they will begin distributing them to two dozen organizations for the needy, including homeless shelters, food banks and literacy centers.
  • A man has been arrested in connection with the attack on a woman in a City Avenue motel room last week, and it's 19-year-old Joseph Vignola Jr., whom local television stations are reporting is the son of Joseph C. Vignola, a former city councilman and controller and well-known city political figure.
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