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In tourism circles, it's called a "weather trifecta." Starting with Memorial Day, continuing with the Fourth of July, and finishing with yet another four-star weekend of blue skies and low humidity for Labor Day, Cape May County tourism director Diane F. Wieland is ready to proclaim summer 2010 a Shore success.

For the students who have not returned to school already, summer vacation ends this week.

Islamic leaders acknowledge that this region has so far been spared major incidents like the others, and they say that the overall climate for Muslims here has not been as negative as elsewhere.

THREE YEARS in as head of Philadelphia public schools and Superintendent Arlene Ackerman has the battle scars to show for it.

Dear Harry: I am really terribly incensed over what is happening with our mortgage. Each month we pay $1,281 to the mortgage company. Of that amount, $468 goes into an escrow account for taxes and insurance. The homeowner's insurance bill comes once a yea

The woman killed early Saturday when a car plowed into a crowd outside a North Philadelphia nightclub has been identified by police as Alisha Moore, 27.

Police identified the woman killed Saturday outside a North Philadelphia bar after an ousted patron plowed her car into a crowd as Alisha Moore.

SUPERINTENDENT Arlene Ackerman and other school district officials should expect to have extra homework this school year. Education advocates in the city say they plan to keep a close eye on the schools chief and her team this year as they embark on a new year full of challenges and expectations.

In a show of Labor Day bravado, dock workers on the verge of losing their jobs pitched pineapples into the murky Delaware River yesterday while sporting "Dump Del Monte" T-shirts.

The first day of school for 162,000 Philadelphia School District pupils marks the opening of two long-awaited, newly built schools.

A group of Western Montgomery Career and Technology Center students gathered excitedly last week around a new state-of-the art gadget, putting the $27,000 computerized automobile wheel-alignment system through its paces.

It is the age-old question, oft asked and answered but never settled, about that liquid asset that consumes so great a portion of human effort. Ducats. Dinero. Dough.

Television cameras rolled Monday at the annual Labor Day picnic as hundreds of union longshoremen lobbed Del Monte pineapples into the Delaware River at Penn's Landing, angry at the company's decision to switch its banana-shipping business to a different port, where workers earn less.

Gov. Chris Christie is kicking off a series of town halls to unveil his reform agenda.

Drug dealers mistake them for customers. Children ask why they live in the city when they don't have to. Neighbors see them working in the garden and stop and ask why.

There is an increased risk of forest and brush fires in the Philadelphia area because there has been no rain for two weeks, the National Weather Service says.

It was a birthday block party with plenty of tunes and eats to go around. The festivities started at 8 a.m. in Logan, on Rockland Street between 7th and 8th, which had been roped off - ironically, it would later turn out - with yellow crime-scene tape. After 12 hours of dancing and celebrating on a beautiful September Sunday, the party ended at 8:30 p.m.

For years, preservationists trying to save a one-story, stone elementary school building in Chester County had an ally in the township Board of Supervisors.

Gregory Dyer, a Villanova senior, stood in an aisle at his campus bookstore searching for his introduction-to-art textbook. He gasped. New, Living With Art would cost the English major $130. Used, it was a mere $97.50.

PhillyStat has been out of order since July. Have you missed it? Residents may not have noticed that the city's data-collection program, begun with great fanfare by former Managing Director Camille Barnett, has been temporarily shelved by her successor, Richard Negrin.