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  • Charter schools join Nutter Hite in funding plea

    Leaders from more than 20 Philadelphia charter schools today joined the school district's campaign to obtain more state and city aid to cover a looming $304 million shortfall. "We have got to share in the advocacy and share in the fight to ensure Philadelphia's public schools are adequately funded," Lawrence Jones, president of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter ...

  • Life for Bucks County musicians killer

    Jermaine M. Jackson was sentenced to life without parole for masterminding a robbery scheme that ended with the shooting death of a popular Bucks County musician. Although Jackson was 19 at the time of the Dec. 28, 2011 crime and did not have a prior criminal record, Bucks County Common Pleas Judge Rea B. Boylan said, "If ever there was a case where a life sentence was appropriate it ...

  • Drowning leading cause of death during Superstorm Sandy

    Story Highlights Drowning was the leading cause of deaths during Superstorm Sandy last fall. A report says 40 of the 117 deaths reported from the storm were caused by drowning. Drowning was also the top cause of death during Hurricane Katrina in ...

  • Cops Suspects smuggled 4000 pounds of pot into Philly over 16 months

    Last month, the detectives from county Prosecutor Risa Ferman's office got approval for a wiretap on the cell phones of the Frederick brothers, left and center. They then allegedly tracked the supply line to a California man, Charles Sadrin, right, who authorities say routinely shipped truck containers full of pot into the region. (Montgomery DA's ...

  • Police W. Pa. man chained boy to table

    CANONSBURG, Pa. - Authorities say a western Pennsylvania man allegedly chained his 11-year-old stepson to the dinner table after he refused to eat the food on his plate. Police say they arrested 38-year-old Joshua Lee Smith of Canonsburg on Monday. That's about 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. Smith allegedly told the boy to finish eating his dinner and when he didn't, made him get ...


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Aliens: Director's Cut

Aliens: Director's Cut

Note: This review includes references to scenes available only in the special Director's Cut, available on laser disc and DVD. As with so many other films, I feel this Director's Cut is the superior version to that which was released in theaters because it adheres more closely to the artis ... ...

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  • Chuck Norris wants the Jaguars to sign Tim Tebow

    Cordell Walker, Texas Ranger has FINALLY weighed in on the controversial Tim Tebow debate that will never go away, regardless of how marginally terrible the quarterback ...

  • Once unbeatable the pressure is on Blackhawks to prove their playoff pedigree

    Chicago Blackhawks were unbeatable, it was easy to get caught up in the streak and the comparisons and the Stanley Cup dreams. They couldn't lose, at least in regulation. They looked like a complete team, with top-end talent, depth and goaltending. They looked like they did in 2009-10, when they won it ...

  • Phila. Charter Schools Urge City and State To Increase Education Funding Citywide

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A group of charter school leaders today joined the mayor and the school district in calling for more funding to ease the district’s budget crisis. Charter operators and district officials gathered at Boys’ Latin Charter School, in West Philadelphia, to join in the push for city and state money to fill the district’s $304-million budget gap ...

  • Police Boy Chained To Table For Not Finishing Dinner

    Authorities say a western Pennsylvania man allegedly chained his 11-year-old stepson to the dinner table after he refused to eat the food on his plate. Police say they arrested 38-year-old Joshua Lee Smith of Canonsburg on Monday. That’s about 20 miles southwest of ...

  • All-NBA Teams Announced No Sixers On Any Of Them

    The Sixers did not have a good 2012-13 season, this we know. The three All-NBA teams announced today are further proof of this. The NBA announced their three All-NBA teams, and there wasn’t a Sixers player among them. Further, not one Sixers player got a vote to be on any of the three teams. Former Sixers Nikola Vucevic and Andre Iguodala received one vote each. Jrue Holiday is the only ...

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