WATERLOO --- Velda Phillips' career at Friendship Village began in a cloud of smoke. She was running the kitchen. It had an area where cafeteria workers could smoke. She cleared it out.

Center City District, a special services group funded by assessments on building owners, said Monday it was ready to begin a $1.5 million park improvement project in Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has awarded a $5 million contract to SEACOR Environmental Services to assist in cleaning up an oil spill following the recent c...