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  • Young and Howard lift Phillies over Marlins

    Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard hits a single in the sixth inning during a baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Miami, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Lynne ...

  • Phillies batter Marlins but aching Utley sits out

    MIAMI - No one noticed Charlie Manuel when he entered the dugout at Marlins Park a few hours before a 7-3 Phillies win Tuesday. The 69-year-old manager dabbles in gallows humor; surviving a 162-game season requires it. He yelled in a high-pitched voice to call attention. "Ta-da!" After 7:11 p.m., when the first pitch was thrown, it was as if Manuel snapped his fingers and everything ...

  • Offense erupts as Phillies pound Marlins 7-3

    MIAMI – In his first two starts against the Phillies, Jose Fernandez looked more like Justin Verlander than a 20-year-old rookie enjoying his first month in the big leagues. The Cuban-born, former first-round pick held the Phils to three hits in 13 shutout innings. After a deflating defeat that saw his team score one run on Monday night, Domonic Brown knew facing Fernandez probably ...

  • Man Dead After Shooting In East Mount Airy

    - A man is dead after a shooting in East Mount Airy Tuesday night. The incident happened at about 9:27 p.m. on the 6900 block of Stenton ...

  • Cavaliers Win NBA Draft Lottery Again Sixers Get No. 11 Pick

    NBA Commissioner David Stern chats with Managing Owner Josh Harris of the Philadelphia 76ers during a reception prior to the 2013 NBA Draft Lottery on May 21, 2013 at the Millennium Hotel in New York City. (credit: Steven Freeman/NBAE via Getty ...


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Movie Review

Ghosts of Mars

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars starts out as a fairly effective sci-fi horrorshow, then quickly devolves into a mindless action movie that involves a small group of survivors machine-gunning hordes of possessed zombies. Carpenter, who cowrote the screenplay with Larry Sulkis, has an interesting central idea (even if it is lifted in part from Mario Bava's 1965 pulp thriller Planet of th ... ...

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  • Abducted 5-year-old girls family to sue

    The family of a 5-year-old girl who was abducted from a West Philadelphia classroom and sexually assaulted at a nearby house plans to sue the Philadelphia School District, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday. "We have a precious, innocent 5-year-old, now 6 years old, who was brutally assaulted and terribly injured," said Thomas R. Kline, the lawyer representing the girl's ...

  • NHL Wrap Quick burst lifts Red Wings over Blackhawks

    DETROIT -- Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller scored 31 seconds apart midway through the second period and Pavel Datsyuk restored a two-goal lead in the third to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 Monday night to take a 2-1 lead in the second round ...

  • Big Plans In The Works To Revitalize Lower Lancaster Avenue

    – Dozens were on hand at the historic Hawthorne Hall near N. 38th Street and Lancaster Avenue for a ceremonial brick laying to mark the beginning of ';Make Your Mark,'; a community driven effort to revitalize lower Lancaster Avenue. ';Think quality schools, think places to play shop and work, think quality and affordable housing both to rent and to own,'; says Farah ...

  • Polls Close In Pa. Primary And The Counting Begins

    -- The polls are now closed in Pennsylvania’s primary election and now the counting begins. Most of Wednesday’s balloting was by Democrats and Republicans to choose nominees for the Nov. 5 general election. Officials said turnout was around 20 ...

  • N.J. man found guilty of using GPS more than 500 times to stalk ex-wife

    A Mullica Hill, N.J., man was found guilty Tuesday of stalking his ex-wife late last year with the help of a GPS device hidden inside her car. Paul W. Prince, 49, activated the device more than 500 times in a month before his ex-wife's brother discovered the tracking device last November connected to the electronic system of the victim's car, according to Gloucester County ...

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