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  • Report Urges End To Automatic Teacher Tenure in Philadelphia Public Schools

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A new study says Philadelphia could do a better job of hiring and evaluating its public school teachers. The report by ...

  • Waters loses for Superior Court

    HARRISBURG - Allegheny County Court Judge Jack McVay defeated Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Joseph Waters Jr. on Tuesday for the Democratic nomination for a vacant seat on the state Superior Court. McVay, 56, a former pharmacist who is serving his sixth year in the county's Family Court, beat Waters, 60, a retired Philadelphia police captain who is in his fourth year on the bench, in ...

  • Bachtle wins in Bucks in top suburban race

    Despite a notably low turnout, local government candidates battled it out Tuesday in primaries across the four Pennsylvania suburban counties, with two Republican incumbents in Bucks County facing primary challenges for row offices. The prothonotary's race was the heated contest in Bucks. With more than nine-tenths of voting districts reporting, incumbent Pat Bachtle, elected in 1994 as ...

  • Butkovitz wins Phila. Democrats controller race

    Alan Butkovitz walking into the Palm in Center City after winning the primary that is likely to give him another term as Philadelphia City Controller. (Yong Kim / Staff ...

  • Young Main Line birders land in elite company

    For three Main Line high school students, the night was already bad. And it was about to get worse. It was a quarter to midnight. They were standing in a North Jersey swamp, listening to owl calls. In 15 minutes, a rigorous statewide birding competition would begin. They would spend the next 24 hours crisscrossing New Jersey, looking - and listening - for every bird they could find. Suddenly, ...


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Monsters vs. Aliens

Monsters vs. Aliens

As with most of DreamWorks other computer-animated comedies, Monsters vs. Aliens is a brightly colored mash-up of pop-culture gags that speeds at you so fast and furiously that it feels like a rush even if you cant remember much about it the next day. This sensation i ... ...

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  • Buyers say theyll reopen Woodcrest as golf course

    The Marlton real estate group that won the auction for Woodcrest Country Club is planning to reopen the Cherry Hill club as a public golf course, township officials said Tuesday. The Haydingers - principals of First Montgomery Group - contacted Mayor Chuck Cahn on Tuesday and shared their plans for the property, saying "they do not at this point plan to seek a zoning change," township ...

  • Translating Tourette into artistry

    In the dance lexicon of Sutie Madison, an uncontrollable twitch is a beautiful thing. A flailing arm and jerking head are the equivalent of a graceful pirouette. Dance, for Madison, is an art form whose choreography is based on the symptoms of the Ambler artist's neurological disease. "We take the tics and teach them," Madison, 32, said last week. Since she was 8, the ...

  • Commerce Bank founder loses bid to collect exit pay

    Commerce Bank founder Vernon Hill 2d's golden parachute deflated Tuesday when a federal jury in Camden determined that it was "legally impossible" for the bank to pay him the $17.2 million he is owed on his employment contract. "It's a disappointment," said Hill's lawyer, Edwin J. Jacobs Jr. of Jacobs & Barbone in Atlantic City. "We are pleased with ...

  • Bill of Rights copy from 1789 to go on display here

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  • Priest accused of violating agreement

    HACKENSACK, N.J. - A judge on Tuesday ordered a New Jersey priest held while a grand jury considers whether he violated a legal agreement to stay away from children. The Rev. Michael Fugee, who recently resigned from the Archdiocese of Newark, flouted a 2003 order he reached with the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office that allowed him to return to ministry after being convicted on charges ...

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