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PHILADELPHIA — A former administrator and a retired statistics professor at Temple University were sentenced to probation this week for assisting the former dean of its business school in a scheme to inflate its position in national rankings publications.

Former MSU QB Anthony Russo has received an invitation to the Carolina Panthers' rookie mini-camp

From Judge Wendy Beetlestone (E.D. Pa.)'s opinion in Houser v. Feldman & Temple Univ., decided Thursday, here are the plaintiff's allegations (note, as usual, that they are just the allegations, since this is an opinion on defendant's motion to dismiss): Houser and his laboratory staff ("lab") developed a pig model…

PITTSBURGH — Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett and Washington wide receiver Jahan Dotson carried the first-round torch for Pitt and Penn State on Thursday night. But Friday was expected to deliver even more Panthers, Nittany Lions and local players to the NFL.

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.