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  • Corbett unlikely to get his full pension savings plan

    HARRISBURG - None of the legislative leaders has ever been more than politically polite when assessing Gov. Corbett's proposal to rein in the skyrocketing cost of public pensions in Pennsylvania. But on Tuesday, a top Senate Republican all but said that the governor's full plan is as good as dead. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R., Delaware) told reporters the chamber was ...

  • Cross-state PA Turnpike toll could rise to $50

    to make $450 million annual payments to the state will take an ever increasing toll on taxpayers’ pocketbooks. "If we don’t do something about this by the year 2021, it will cost $50 for the average working Pennsylvanian just to travel across our state," said Auditor General Eugene DePasquale. "That is just unsustainable. There is no way that we can ask the average ...

  • 76ers Draft Preview The Case For Shabazz Muhammad

    Shabazz Muhammad is destined for greatness. CBS basketball analyst Clark Kellogg is fond of saying "You can't run away from the DNA!", and by the looks of it, UCLA freshman swingman Shabazz Muhammad won the genetic lottery. His father, Ronald Holmes, was a four-year starter at point guard for USC, and his mother ran track and played basketball at Long Beach State. ...

  • Are the Eagles likely to go worst to first in 2013

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  • The waiver wire could have a huge impact on the Eagles roster over the next few months

    At this point in the year, all 32 teams are working to craft their rosters. The weeks ahead will huge for the team's success and it is critical that the moves are made for the team to build a winner. ...


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Movie Review

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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  • Steve Gleason responds to Atlanta radio hosts

    on his Facebook page. Gleason, who has ALS, found himself in the news after a segment on 790 The Zone making fun of his disease sparked national outrage. The station has apologized for the segment and the hosts have been fired. Gleason's response is short but eloquent, from ...

  • Man accused of castrating paraplegic in Philly dispute

    A 41-year-old man is being held on $5 million bail after police say he castrated a paraplegic during a dispute at an assisted living facility in Philadelphia. Authorities say Edgar Bonilla is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and other counts in Monday night's attack inside the Inglis Apartments at Elmwood. Lt. John Walker says Bonilla was visiting a female friend at the ...

  • Phanatic ATV Breakdown Phillies Mascot Distressed When Car Breaks Down

    Phanatic Phil ran into some mechanical difficulties on Monday night during Philadelphia's game against the Washington Nationals when his ATV broke down, leaving him to his own resources to pump up the ...

  • Review Of Philadelphia Police Policies Gets Underway

    In just one week last month, seven people were shot by police, six of them allegedly pointed guns at cops, the other had a knife. But Commissioner Charles Ramsey says it was even before that, last November, that he began looking into a Department of Justice program called COPS, Community Oriented Policing Services, not to investigate individual shootings, instead more of an overview of things ...

  • Pa. tops nation in firearms lost or stolen from gun dealers

    new report from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says 1,502 guns were lost or stolen from federally licensed Pennsylvania gun dealers in 2012, the highest total in the nation. Texas had the second-highest number of lost or stolen firearms at 1,263, followed by Maryland with 984 and New York with 775. In Pennsylvania, 191 of the misplaced guns were stolen, and 1,311 ...

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