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• Pennsylvania restricts 'obscene celebrity' of convicts in new crime law

  21 Oct 2014: Governor Tom Corbett signs law in response to convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s commencement speech, enabling prosecution of person who ‘perpetuates effect of crime’

• Monica Lewinsky describes herself as first cyberbullying victim – video

  Video (2min 17sec), 21 Oct 2014:

  Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky makes a rare public appearance in Philadelphia

• The geometry of everyday life: Paul Strand's masterworks – in pictures

  13 Oct 2014: Gallery: Paul Strand, working in the middle years of the 20th century, created photographs unsurpassed in their lustre, strange humanity and compositional rigour. Look at some of his finest work, coming to a major retrospective in Philadelphia

• Philadelphia teachers planning large-scale protests over contract cancellation

  7 Oct 2014: Timing of the largely unprecedented decision called into question with less than a month until the state’s gubernatorial election

• Philadelphia cancels teachers' contracts to force benefits concessions

  6 Oct 2014: Move is designed to force healthcare contributions and other benefits cuts in cash-strapped school district

• Convicted murderer's speech to graduating US students raises hackles

  6 Oct 2014: Police raise concerns about speech from Mumia Abu-Jamal, once on death row and re-sentenced to life in prison, to Vermont college students

• Philadelphia apartments for LGBT seniors seen as model for other projects

  6 Oct 2014: Housing initiative part of broader US federal government campaign to address discrimination based on sexual orientation

• Is London ready for a 'Mini Holland'?

  3 Oct 2014: City links: The best city stories this week find Walthamstow going Dutch, look at plans for an undersea tunnel linking Helsinki and Tallinn – and welcome the arrival of ‘skateboard urbanism’

• Philadelphia trio accused of beating gay couple turn themselves in

  24 Sep 2014: Victims told police that the group hurled gay slurs and beat them when the two parties passed on the street in September

• Philadelphia Catholic high school coach resigns over role in beating of gay men

  18 Sep 2014: City’s archbishop condemns beating that was caught on video and assistant coach implicated resigns from Archbishop Wood

• Suspect in fatal Philadelphia carjacking to ask family for forgiveness

  13 Aug 2014: Johnathan Rosa and co-defendant Cornelius Crawford are charged with carjacking in case that horrified the city

• Philadelphia and Brooklyn lead bids to host Democratic National Convention

  11 Aug 2014: The original US capital stands in the swing state of Pennsylvania and holds a slight edge over New York City’s borough and Columbus, Ohio

• Museum rediscovers 6,500-year-old human skeleton in storage

  5 Aug 2014:

  Remains were originally excavated from southern Iraq around 1930, and were stored in a box with no identifying documents

• Stray bullet leaves three-year-old dead in Philadelphia shooting

  2 Aug 2014: Tynirah Borum hit by stray bullet on front porch and three adults were injured, one critically, after street altercation

• Pennsylvania police find two more guns at home of hospital 'killer'

  26 Jul 2014: Richard Plotts allegedly killed caseworker and shot at psychiatrist who used own gun to shoot and wound Plotts despite rule barring firearms

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