Pope Francis will have a nice place to sit when he meets with Philadelphia prisoners next month. Inmates in the city\’s correctional system have been working for the past couple of weeks on a stately chair they hand-carved out of walnut. On Monday, another group of prisoners sanded, oiled and refinished the piece, which stands nearly…

PHILADELPHIA, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ) is pleased to host The Future of Philadelphia: A Mayoral Town Hall Debate. To date, Democratic Candidate Jim Kenney and Republican Candidate Melissa Murray Bailey have confirmed their participation, and invitations have been extended to Third-Party Candidates Osborne Hart, Jim Foster and Boris Kindij. 

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a Laurence Harbor doctor and a co-conspirator were indicted yesterday by a state grand jury on first-degree charges that they allegedly facilitated a sophisticated money laundering scheme from 2005 to 2011 that allowed the physician to hide approximately $3.6 million in income from his medical practices, which resulted in his underpayment of approximately $327,000 in taxes owed to the State of New Jersey. 

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — To coincide with tenth anniversary ceremonies marking Hurricane Katrina\’s devastating assault on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, the United States Coast Guard dedicated \”Rescue Me,\” a painting by Dale Fairbanks, artist and former Louisianaresident. 

The 10\’x14\’ painting features a USCG HH-65 Dolphin helicopter which served as an icon of hope and aided in the Coast Guard rescue of 33,500 Katrina survivors.

 

Rev. G. Dennis Gill acknowledges the numbers are staggering. Next month, Pope Francis will oversee the distribution of Holy Communion to as many as 2 million people gathered on a mile-long parkway in downtown Philadelphia. But, Gill, who is helping oversee the planning for Papal Mass, promises he has everything mapped out. Under his committee\’s choreography,…

 

WESTAMPTON TOWNSHIP — A $208,000 grant awarded to Westampton Township Fire Department to help recruit and retain volunteers has made the organization the first in the country to secure three competitive federal grants in a row, officials said Tuesday. The township fire department was awarded a SAFER, or staffing for adequate fire and emergency response, grant…

Kevin Atkisson, 25, of Vineland, is charged with two counts of second-degree attempted extortion.

The victim called authorities on Wednesday after a man identifying himself as \”Kevin\” contacted him and advised that he wanted $500 in exchange for incriminating photos of the victim.

After speaking with detectives, the victim called the suspect back and arranged a meeting place at a Haddonfield parking lot. Officers conducting surveillance at the location observed Atkinson arrive in a car and take an envelope from the victim’s vehicle. The suspect was immediately surrounded and taken into custody.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In today\’s issue of Nature, two new studies funded in part by The ALS Association both highlight an important new discovery around the C9orf72 mutation, the most common genetic defect associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Both studies emphasize that a key driver of the development of ALS due to this mutation is an export-import imbalance between the cell\’s nucleus and its non-nuclear portion, or cytoplasm.