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  • Chesco DA to seek death penalty for man in girlfriends death

    Story Highlights Prosecutors will pursue a death sentence for Gregory Twyman, 44. He was charged in May for the fatal shooting of girlfriend, Jamica Woods. The day before the shooting, Twyman posted a photo of a shotgun shell he bought at Walmart on ...

  • ProPublica How the NSA’s high-tech surveillance helped Europeans catch terrorists

    U.S. surveillance had tracked their radicalization, their emails from Pakistan, even calls made to their mothers before they trudged through snowy Iranian mountains. An intercepted photo that Garsallaoui sent his wife showed him holding a grenade launcher. He claimed to have killed U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and described his escape from a missile strike: "I came close to dying." ...

  • Rep. Brian Sims Op-Ed Real Solutions to Our Education Funding Crisis

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  • Video Predicting NBA Finals Game 7

    The Philadelphia Inquirer's Bob Ford & CineSport's Noah Coslov discuss whether the Spurs experience will be enough to win Game 7, expectations for LeBron James, plus Bob's pick to win the ...

  • New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a Cowboys fans

    revealed his favorite sports teams while talking to students at Samsel Upper Elementary School on Tuesday. Christie told the youngsters that his favorite basketball team is the New York Knicks. His favorite baseball team is the New York Mets. His favorite football team? "My favorite football team is not the New York Giants, it’s not the New York Jets, and it’s not the ...


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To Catch a Thief [Blu-Ray]

To Catch a Thief [Blu-Ray]

To Catch a Thief has never been one of Hitchcocks greatest films. Described by Donald Spoto in The Art of Alfred Hitchcock as a creampuff of a movie with a little suspense at the end and by Hitchcock himself as a lightweight story, it was one of Hitchs thriller-comed ... ...

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  • Official Philly not liable for private demo work

    PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia deputy mayor says the city isn't responsible for demolition work done at a private site once a permit is issued.The comment comes as City Council opens its investigation into the fatal June 5 building collapse that killed six people.Council members are questioning the Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison and the city's Licenses and Inspections commissioner, ...

  • News and notes How are the Bruins stopping Chicago’s power play

    Tuukka Rask stopped all 28 Blackhawks shots he faced in a 2-0 Bruins win. Tonight, the Bruins will look to win their eighth straight game at TD Garden - tying a franchise record for consecutive home wins in a single postseason (1990) - and take a three-games-to-one series lead to Chicago with the chance to clinch the Cup. The Bruins, who lead a Stanley Cup Final series for the first time since ...

  • Sources Flyers interested in deal for Ducks Ryan

    Cherry Hill's Bobby Ryan always wanted to play with the Flyers.Maybe his chance comes this summer.Two NHL sources not associated with the Flyers tell CSNPhilly.com that the Anaheim Ducks are quietly shopping Ryan a week before the NHL draft in Newark, N.J., and that the Flyers are keenly interested.Among the scenarios that have been discussed is the Flyers moving defenseman Braydon Coburn ...

  • Man Stabbed After Trying to Stop Alleged Car Thief

    Police say the alleged victim saw Bell attempting to break into several cars Monday along Mechanicsville Road. Police say as the man tried to stop Bell he was stabbed in the abdomen with a large knife. Bell ran from the ...

  • Protecting Children and Faith

    Herbert and Catherine Schiable believe in faith healing over medicine. They were ordered to stand trial on murder charges in the pneumonia death of one of their children. It is the second Schaible child to die in a four-year ...

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