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  • Haddonfields deputy mayor is given top job

    Haddonfield has its first new mayor in 12 years. Jeff Kasko, 48, the deputy mayor, who was reelected last week to a second term on the Board of Commissioners, was tapped Monday evening by his fellow commissioners to be mayor, Borough Clerk Deanna Bennett said. Kasko, who will remain director of revenue and finance, takes over the post Letitia "Tish" Colombi is vacating. She decided ...

  • Kurt W. Klein claims adjuster and CYO leader

    Kurt W. Klein, 51, of Springfield, Delaware County, a claims adjuster and former director for the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Youth Organization Athletic Program, died Wednesday, May 15, at home of complications from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease. Since 1992, Mr. Klein was employed by Professional Insurance Adjusters in Malvern, and before that by Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton. He ...

  • Kevin Riordan From a local author adventure story with cinematic sweep

    Patti Sheehy remembers thinking, this story has everything: Bravery, romance, suspense, and an evocative historical backdrop. Plus, it was true. She decided the best way to convey the emotions as well as the political ramifications of a young Cuban soldier's daring 1967 escape to America was as a novel. "It was a story that needed to be told, and I wanted to do it justice," says ...

  • Ex-housekeeper sentenced in Franklin bust theft

    A former house cleaner who stole a rare bust of Benjamin Franklin from a Bryn Mawr house where she once worked was sentenced Monday to six years in prison. U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II also ordered three years of supervised release for Andrea Lawton, 47, of Philadelphia, for taking the 235-year-old bust by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. The bust's owner, lawyer George ...

  • Sandy could change Shores demographic face

    LAVALLETTE, N.J. - Yes, they were here to show off the rebuilt boardwalk in this picturesque seaside town, with its touching buy-a-board messages such as "This too shall pass" etched into the compressed pine planks. But as much as they were peddling the "Jersey Shore is open" message on this foggy morning, neither Mayor Walter "Wally" LaCicero nor Gov. Christie ...


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Movie Review

Drop Dead Gorgeous

It's always a sad sight when a satire goes after a painfully obvious and easy target, and still manages to miss the mark. Such is the case with "Drop Dead Gorgeous," a vicious black comedy about a teen beauty pageant, one of the silliest and most intellectually indefensible rituals of modern American culture. ...

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  • A new kind of college signing day

    With cheerleaders, mascots, and thunderous applause, thousands of students from Mastery Charter Schools gathered for a giant pep rally Monday, but the event had nothing to do with sports. It was "College Signing Day," held to celebrate the academic success of 450 high school seniors heading off to pursue degrees in higher education. "We believe you will be the ones . . . to ...

  • D.A. Complaint against DeCoatsworth was not credible

    Richard DeCoatsworth, once hailed as a hero for his actions as a Philadelphia officer, is in jail facing charges of rape and other ...

  • Trenton man convicted in Bucks musicians slaying

    Jermaine Jackson, the Trenton man accused of masterminding a plot that left Levittown musician Danny DeGennaro dead, was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in Bucks County Court. Jackson, 21, was not accused of shooting DeGennaro, who died from a shotgun blast to the chest in December 2011, but of developing a plan to rob him that turned fatal when two gunmen opened fire after entering ...

  • Controller judgeships up for grabs in Phila.

    It may come as a surprise to many Pennsylvania voters, but Tuesday is primary election day, with balloting to choose party candidates for judgeships and a variety of local offices throughout the state's 67 counties. In Philadelphia, the marquee race is a three-way contest for city controller between incumbent Alan Butkovitz, who has held the post as the city's financial watchdog the ...

  • Judge says shell decide NCAA suit within weeks

    HARRISBURG - A federal judge said Monday that she would decide in a few weeks whether to dismiss a lawsuit by Gov. Corbett against the NCAA over sanctions against Pennsylvania State University stemming from the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal. During a two-hour hearing before U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane, a lawyer for the NCAA said the suit had failed to prove there was an antitrust ...

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