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The Philadelphia School District and police are trying to track down a pair of thieves who showed up at two elementary schools in the past week wearing dust masks and claiming to be painters and then stealing computers worth about $10,000.

Gov. Rendell today said that he has not been invited to attend Chelsea Clinton's nuptials this weekend.

Rail service west of Philadelphia was suspended for about 90 minutes after a man in his 60s was struck and killed by an Amtrak train near the Ardmore station.

An American crocodile rescued from a warehouse in Milwaukee has found a new home at the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown.

A Cherry Hill man who pleaded guilty to throwing up on an off-duty police officer and his family during a Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park was sentenced today to 30 to 90 days in jail.

Barely a month after a bitter court fight, Philadelphia and the Cradle of Liberty Council Boy Scouts are negotiating to settle the nearly decade-long dispute over the scouts' refusal to explicitly renounce the national organization's antigay policy.

As of tonight, Apple worshippers in the city no longer have to journey very far to get their latest technology fix.

As charges were announced against a police officer in the theft of $825 from a closed bar, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said today he was drawing up a plan to root out bad cops in the department.

The Democratic candidate for a Chester County State House seat withdrew from the race this morning.

Lawyers representing the victims in the July 7 Duck boat crash called on the city and the U.S. Coast Guard to impose a moratorium on all duck boat service on the Delaware River because the vessels are potential "deathtraps."

During a budget presentation to the School Reform Commission in May, district officials warned that drastic cuts that will harm students would be made if enough funding from the state didn't come through.

Bryan Nevins looked like a young man, but to his mother, he was a baby. "He had a man's body, but he never grew up," said a tearful Diane Nevins, speaking from the home in Oceanside, N.Y., that she shares with her husband, a retired New York police officer.

Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky, whose family has local roots, will wed in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Saturday, July 31, 2010. Chelsea grew up in the public eye. These are pictures of her days as First Daughter through to her wedding eve.

INTEL ON TOMORROW'S fairy-tale nuptials of former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky is sealed tighter than the sturdy cap on the BP oil leak. Even the mother of the groom is under strict orders.

Top executives at the Philadelphia Parking Authority - owner of the site for the proposed Family Court building - were told more than two years ago that a lawyer for the courts planned to join developer Donald Pulver on the $200 million project, e-mails obtained by The Inquirer show.

Michael Joyce, the Delaware River Port Authority executive who resigned this week after allegations of E-ZPass abuse, improperly received pension credits last year for a part-time, $67,356 solicitor's job in Pennsauken.

Business was going so well for a marijuana-growing operation in a North Philadelphia warehouse that James Alberts and Richard K. Creamer decided in June 2009 to expand their business to northern California, authorities said.