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  • Camden Man Pleads Guilty To Cashing Stolen Checks

    — A Camden man has pleaded guilty to a role in a scheme to steal checks from industrial-park mailboxes and cash them. Thirty-five-year-old Michael Ingalls pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possessing stolen ...

  • Fear Of Sandy Damage At Jersey Shore Leaves Rental Inventory On The Books

    – There’s still time to book a week at the South Jersey Shore and real estate agents say there are a lot of good reasons to do so. Any annual shore-goer can tell you: by this time, any other year, there’d be very little left to rent but this year, rental agents are still working. Arno Apel of Ashore Realty says Cape May and Atlantic Counties expected to be busier than ever ...

  • Guide To Philadelphia’s Farmers’ Markets

    The local food craze has swept the nation, and with so many farmers' markets within the city and scattered throughout the suburbs, Philadelphians can take their pick of delicious, local produce, dairy products and baked goods...even artisinal chocolate and natural beauty products! But before you shop, there are a few things to consider. While some markets accept debit and credit cards, ...

  • Plenty To Do If You’re Staying In Town For Memorial Day Weekend

    – If you’re not headed down the shore this weekend for Memorial Day, there’s plenty to do right here in and around Philadelphia. Meryl Levitz with the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation says Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia is full of events. For example you can celebrate the holiday all week long at ...

  • Reproduction Of Historic Slave Ship Arrives At Seaport Museum

    – The Independence Seaport Museum welcomes a special guest along the Delaware River, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. The Schooner Amistad arrived Thursday afternoon. The 129-foot Baltimore Clipper was built in 2000 as a replica of the historic Spanish cargo ship La Amistad. The ship became famous in 1839, when 54 slaves being transported from Cuba rebelled and captured the ship, ...


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Movie Review

Knight and Day

Knight and Day

Its been two years since weve seen Tom Cruise on the big screen, and its not hard to surmise why he would choose a film like Knight and Day as his next starring vehicle. Despite its absolutely terrible title (it tells you nothing in terms of what the film is about and relies o ... ...

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  • Philadelphia day of prayer penance following Gosnell conviction

    Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has declared May 24 to be a special day of prayer and penance "as a Christian response to the Kermit Gosnell trial and conviction." "The recent trial and conviction of the Philadelphia abortion doctor, Kermit Gosnell, for killing three babies born alive, manifested in yet another vivid way the horrific details of the abortion culture that ...

  • Memorial Day Weekend Jersey Shore’s First Big Test After Superstorm Sandy

    – This weekend will be the first real test of how well Jersey Shore businesses have recovered from Hurricane Sandy. Atlantic City, though, has an additional task at hand, as theyre-positionthemselves in an ever-changing casino industry. If crowds on the boardwalk mean anything, visitors have put the Superstorm in the back of their minds. Getting them to open their wallets? That's ...

  • Corbett to write column for Philly.com

    The New Voices of Philly.com include a gay leader, a stoner, a sexologist, a libertarian-leaning Realtor - even the legendary Flyers goalie Bernie Parent, dispensing advice on relationships. Now add to that roster of columnists the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett. "There is no political bias or intent, other than providing content that is interesting to our readers," said ...

  • Wesley O. Pipes 81 Drexel professor

    Wesley O. Pipes, 81, of Haddon Township, a former environmental engineering professor at Drexel University, died of aplastic anemia, a bone marrow disease, Monday, May 20, at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Pipes, who headed the Drexel civil engineering department from 1984 to 1987, was president in 1975-76 of what is now the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science ...

  • Algie Pratt Streat 95 a life of many interests

    Algie Pratt Streat, 95, of South Philadelphia, whose passions in life were socializing, traveling, and gardening, died Thursday, May 16, of late-stage dementia at Simpson House in Philadelphia. Born in Sumter, S.C., she moved as a child with her family to Swampoodle in North Philadelphia, near the old Shibe Park. The family joined A.M.E. Union Church, where Mrs. Streat remained a member for 75 ...

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