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  • Protest planned at Temple hospital this afternoon

    The union representing health care workers at Temple University Hospital has planned a protest outside the entrance of the medical facility on North Broad Street for 4 p.m. Sunday. Without providing specifics, District 1199C of the National Union of Hospital & Health Care Workers said in a release just issued that Temple "has chosen to renounce and violate its contractual obligations ...

  • Eagles offensive lineman Evan Mathis thinking of Tim Tebow

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  • NHL Wrap Logan Couture wins Game 3 in OT for Sharks

    Two nights after losing 4-3 on a pair of late power-play goals by Los Angeles in Game 2, the Sharks took advantage of their late-game chances on the power play. Tommy Wingels drew a hooking penalty on Robyn Regehr with 41.7 seconds left in regulation, and the task got even more difficult for Los Angeles when Trevor Lewis was called for goaltender interference when he crashed into Niemi with 4.5 ...

  • Student Heading Home for Summer Goes Missing

    Police say Matthew Royer, 21, has been missing since Thursday. Royer , a student at the University of Rhode Island, left his on-campus apartment around 6:30 p.m. last Thursday and was heading back to his home in Collegeville, Pa. for the summer. Police say Royer never arrived home however and has not been seen since ...

  • Jurors to mull death penalty in Pa. slayings of 12

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Jurors return to federal court in Philadelphia on Tuesday to hear arguments and evidence on whether a drug dealer convicted in the deaths of a dozen people should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of ...


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Message in a Bottle

"Message in a Bottle" is a somewhat unwieldy romantic film that teeters constantly even though it is built on the solid foundation of timeless romantic notions: endless love that extends beyond death, broken people learning to love again, the power of honest, heart-rending prose to reduce even the strongest, most independent sort to a weeping puddle, and the idea that a love letter can float throu ... ...

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  • 6 Philadelphia Phillies Who Might Be Traded This Season

    National League Division Series. That 102-win regular season may well have been the apex for an iconic core of players who had seen many better days in south Philadelphia. Clearly the best Phillies' era of all-time lasted from 1976-1983. It was in the middle of those great moments that Dallas Green led an iconic team to an unbelievable 1980 National League Pennant victory over a strong ...

  • Coast Guard finds rescues stranded boater

    ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The Coast Guard came to the aid of a boater whose 19-foot boat ran aground on a sandbar in southern New Jersey this ...

  • Phils find gem in a Germany high school

    Special section: Top 25 Phillies prospects Kamara, who won't turn 18 until December, is a junior in high school. The Phillies will get to work with him some this summer, according to Looper, but Kamara won't be available to the Phillies full-time until he graduates from high school in the spring of 2014. Kamara is familiar with baseball in the U.S., having competed during the winter ...

  • Criticism flares around new Pennsylvania graduation tests

    By MARC LEVY,Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov. Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to toughen academic achievement standards and tie them to graduation tests for the state's roughly 1.7 million public and charter school students.After hours of legislative hearings on ...

  • NHL Notes Eric Staal to miss 3 months with sprained MCL

    The team said Staal underwent an MRI on his right knee Saturday and it revealed a third-degree sprain of his medial collateral ligament. The team says Staal won't need surgery and he should need only three months of rehab. Staal's injury Thursday during the world hockey quarterfinals in Stockholm certainly could have been a lot worse. The captain of Canada's team collapsed to ...

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