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Republican Pat Toomey crusaded against earmarks for most of his three terms in the U.S. House, and not long ago took a live pig to Independence Mall as he challenged his Senate-race opponent, Rep. Joe Sestak, to swear off the funding that lawmakers direct to their pet projects.

Frank Bender lives. This I consider news, since the forensic sculptor wasn't supposed to see summer, let alone gallop into the fall.

The Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross began to contemplate death and dying as she interviewed Jewish children at a liberated Nazi concentration camp in 1945.

It wasn't that long ago that Catherine Poole and her Glenmoore, Chester County, neighbors were under attack from a succession of storms.

From its start, the case contained tragic twists: A woman from war-ravaged Sierra Leone had won a lottery and moved to the United States, only to be raped by a countryman who befriended her at her job in West Chester.

Delaware River Port Authority employees who use the agency's toll bridges to commute to work still get free rides, despite recent pronouncements that the agency had ended the long-standing perk.

Carl R. Greene, the embattled executive director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, filed suit Tuesday against the agency's board of directors, saying its members had "effectively terminated" him without due process. He is asking for damages that could exceed $600,000.

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Tuesday that the government may need a warrant when trying to obtain phone records that show a person's location.

A 6-year-old boy was bitten in the face by the family dog, possibly a pit bull, Tuesday afternoon in the Swampoodle section of North Philadelphia, police said.

The man suspected of raping a woman at Eighth and Race Streets last month was spotted in Texas last week, police said, but managed to elude authorities.

Police are still investigating a weekend break-in at the Feltonville Intermediate School.

A plea for the public's help to identify a bank robber led to the arrest of a 31-year-old Waynesboro, Pa., man who has been charged with three holdups, one in Pennsylvania and two in Maryland, West Goshen Township police said Tuesday.

YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School will receive $64,860 from a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation that will be used to expand a program that helps students become certified nurse's aides.

Storyee Robinson couldn't believe what she saw when she stepped inside the new, $30.3 million Willard Elementary School in Kensington Tuesday morning.

If you have a question or comment about news coverage, contact assistant managing editor David Sullivan (215-854-2357) at The Inquirer, Box 8263, Philadelphia 19101, or e-mail dsullivan@phillynews.com.

Christopher Kallaur's lawyer compared his story to "Cain and Abel, a good-brother, bad-brother situation." But this killing had a twist: The "good brother" survived.

An electrical contractor who won a $1.1 million municipal contract in 2007 because of a law that gives preference to Philadelphia businesses has paid the city nearly $110,000 after the Nutter administration determined that the company was based in the suburbs.

Matthew Christopher Hus deeply loved Paige Pfefferle from the time the Camden County couple met at her Sweet 16 party three years ago, relatives said.

There will be no James Patterson novels to borrow today, and no computers for job applicants to use. The Nancy Drews will be packed up, along with the heavy unabridged dictionary that sat open Tuesday to the letter W and words like wulfenite - a mineral named for an Austrian mineralogist.

TRENTON - A Newark public school official assigned to help present New Jersey's Race to the Top application in Washington detected the error that contributed to the state's losing $400 million in federal education aid, but was told it was too late to fix, according to testimony Tuesday.