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PHILADELPHIA — Sara Goldrick-Rab, one of Temple University's most high-profile and outspoken professors, has been placed on paid administrative leave while the university investigates concerns raised about her leadership.

On Nov. 9, University of Chicago graduate student Shaoxiong “Dennis” Zheng was fatally shot during a robbery that occurred near the campus. Just three weeks later, Temple University senior Samuel Collington suffered the same tragic fate just two blocks from campus. Days later, Columbia University graduate student Davide Giri was…

From a 2021 decision by Judge Richard Jones (W.D. Wash.) in United Federation of Churches, LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple v. Johnson, just reaffirmed yesterday on denial of a motion for reconsideration: [According to the Complaint,] Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC ("The Satanic Temple") is a religious organization. As…

PHILADELPHIA — While COVID-19 cases in Philadelphia are rising to the point that the city will reimpose a mask mandate, a different metric heralded the uptick a few weeks earlier in other parts of the country. The clues were in poop.

The country's latest temple corruption scandal occurred at a first-class royal monastery; the centre of a sect founded by reformist monarch King Mongkut to clean up the clergy. What an irony!

The latest case of embezzlement at Wat Bowon Niwet Vihara in Bangkok and its branches upcountry should send alarm bells ringing about an existing flaw in the way Buddhist temples are financially managed.

PHILADELPHIA — According to several sources familiar with the decision, Fran Dunphy has agreed to be the next head men’s basketball coach at La Salle University, his alma mater.

The stakes have never been this high for these bitter rivals … but 31 years ago, they almost were even bigger.

Todd Bowles spent seven of his eight NFL seasons in Washington.

PerfectHome has been the biggest rent-to-own firm since Brighthouse collapsed, and lent customers cash to buy household goods, but it has now fallen into administration

Penn State OLB Arnold Ebiketie is up next in Unpacking Future Packers, a countdown previewing the 2022 NFL draft for Packers Wire.