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NOTRE DAME - One month removed from playing for the BCS national championship, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly and his staff are adding to the foundation of the Irish football program by signing several highly rated high school seniors to national letters of...

Tiger Woods dropped an interesting reference to Philadelphia on Monday at media day for the AT&T National. The tournament will be held at Congressional Golf Club in Bethesda, Md., through 2014. According to the Washington Post, the membership will vote...

In June, the Simsbury Free Library (SFL) is pleased to welcome a special exhibit from the Simsbury Arts Academy and offer a third tour of the A. Everett Austin, Jr. House. In addition, the SFL will continue its monthly Drop-In Book Club and documentary/...

The last two springs, reliever Jake Diekman has caught the eyes of some pretty influential members of the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Major league pitching coach Rich Dubee was smitten with the long-armed left-hander during spring training in...

The Philadelphia Phillies have won four out of five heading into the middle contest of their three-game series Saturday afternoon against the visiting Cincinnati Reds. The Reds had their longest winning streak of the season come to an end at six games...

I get the impression that there are a lot of untrustworthy cats in this country from the number of remedies submitted to me on combating urine odors. Here's a step-by-step from reader Ed Zoller in Jacksonville, Fla.: If the area is carpeted,...

— One Philadelphia Eagles running back unpacked his baggage on Tuesday. Another kept adding to his collection. Shortly after the Eagles announced the signing of former Dallas Cowboy Felix Jones, news broke of LeSean "Shady" McCoy being sued by a...

Another member of Gov. Corbett's cabinet is on his way out. Education Secretary Ron Tomalis is looking for another job and does not intend to stay past summer as Corbett's education czar, two senior administration officials have told The Inquirer on...

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Friday that an unusual plan to finance construction of the I-95/Pennsylvania Turnpike connection "raises alarms" and may prompt an investigation by his office. DePasquale said he was especially...

On paper, Lisa Scottoline is a little intimidating. She's got more than 30 million copies in print of her books, including 20 best-selling novels. She writes a weekly column, with her daughter, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a graduate of...

HARRISBURG — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett came into office in 2011 as an unabashed supporter of school vouchers, charter schools and other forms of school choice. When it was time to name an education secretary, he picked someone with the same mind-...

Those who oppose greater U.S. involvement in Syria were no doubt relieved at the announcement that Moscow and Washington want to convene an international conference to end the country's civil war. They shouldn't be. Secretary of State John Kerry's...