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WHAT: Mayor Nutter and City officials will celebrate the grand opening of the City’s new Innovation Lab, a technology-enabled, collaborative work space for city employees and external stakeholders to meet and create solutions to the City’s challenges.
The Lab dedication is part of a day-long, Youth Innovation event in the Lab, which will include tool building activities and a Vine video contest to promote and communicate City resources to youth.
WHERE: Municipal Services Building, Innovation Lab, 16th Floor, 1401 JFK Boulevard
The FBI arrested six Philadelphia Police officers for offenses that include drug dealing, kidnapping and robbery.
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said in a press conference on Wednesday that in over 40 years as a police officer “this is one of the worst cases of corruption I’ve ever heard,” CBS Philly reported.