We all remember the freedom, the thrill, the excitement of getting our driver’s license as young people, and with it the wonderful realization that we could go anywhere, anytime, as long as we had wheels. That exhilaration and freedom doesn’t go away as we get older, but unfortunately, our skills can deteriorate as we age,…

As Hurricane Isaac continues its swath through New Orleans, Louisiana, Alabama and other hard-hit areas, the massive storm is dumping rain by the foot and bringing powerful and destructive flooding as well as high winds. Here in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, we often see the remnants of such storms as they travel here from…

In what might be one of the most senseless and tragic horrors to befall families, eight young children across the United States died in the first week of August when they became severely overheated after being left unattended in hot vehicles. Eight children died. In one single seven-day span. In the U.S., one of the…

It was just a baseball hit toward him during a youth baseball game in 2008, but the moment the pitch came off the batter’s metal bat, it changed the life of a teenaged pitcher, striking him hard in the chest, and almost instantly stopping his heart. The victim, now 18, suffered severe brain damage because…

Three summers ago, the former Valley Club swimming pool in Huntingdon Valley signed a deal to host 65 children from a Philadelphia day camp so they could spend one day a week frolicking in the pool and playing on the swim club grounds. The camp, Creative Steps Inc., paid the swim club $1,950 for the…

The controversial five-month-old Pennsylvania law that requires voters to show valid photo ID in order to cast their ballots at the polls was upheld this week by a state Commonwealth Court judge, but the battle is likely far from being over. In a 70-page opinion, Judge Robert Simpson Jr. upheld the law, saying that it…