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  • Philadelphia Activists Arrested Framed and Denied Bail for Speaking Out in Favor of Marijuana Legalization

    May 23, 2013 (Philadelphia, PA, May 22, 2013) -- Comedy-activist troupe "The Panic Hour" and activist advocate Shield Mutual are supporting a rally Thursday May 23, 2013 at the James A. Byrne federal courthouse at 601 Market St. in Philadelphia that will demand the immediate and unconditional release of activists Adam Kokesh and N.A. Poe from federal prison. More than two hundred ...

  • What’s Cooking on 1060 Memorial Day Grilling Tips New Book About Cheese

    By Hadas Kuznits . PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Memorial Day weekend means backyard grilling! Everybody with a spatula thinks they are a master griller. But what separates the pros from the amateurs? ';I guess it’s your preparation, and knowing your cuts of meat,'; says Richie Furino (top photo), regional manager for Del Frisco’s restaurants. ';You know, a filet ...

  • Jay Lloyd’s Getaway Boating Safety Voices of Experience

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  • For Philadelphia bicyclist a cat is his co-pilot

    Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on YouTube.The 26-year-old bike courier didn't intend to become Internet-famous. He originally shot footage of the outings only to prove to his mom that he was taking Mary Jane - nicknamed MJ - for a spin."She ...

  • Camden school clerk alleges attendance inflation

    An attendance clerk at Woodrow Wilson High School filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Superior Court in Camden County alleging attendance inflation by her superiors and the Camden School District. Roxanne Garrett also accuses former Wilson principal Tyrone Richards of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. Richards did not return calls for comment Wednesday. In a six-page ...


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Pushing Tin

We are told near the beginning of Pushing Tin that air traffic controllers take more lives into their hands in one shift than surgeons take in their entire careers. No wonder it has the highest rates of clinical depression and alcoholism of any profession. ...

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  • Some criticize Corbett remark on Latinos on staff

    HARRISBURG - A brief exchange of comments videotaped during an effort to reach out to Latino leaders last week in Philadelphia has created a new wave of controversy for Gov. Corbett. In an hour-long interview Friday during a roundtable sponsored by Al Día News Media, a moderator asked Corbett whether he had any Latinos on his staff. Corbett said he did not, adding quickly, "If you ...

  • Phila. Democrats to meet with Hite

    A week after Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said he was targeting seniority in the teachers' contract to win support from Republican lawmakers for more state aid for the cash-strapped district, the city's Democratic legislative delegation is scheduled to meet with him Thursday to discuss its concerns. State Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Phila.) said he was notified of ...

  • Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of infant

    Holding hands, Catherine and Herbert Schaible leave the Criminla Justice Center after a probation hearing May 6, 2013. The very religious couple, who were convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of a 2-year-old son because they denied him medical care, were in court because their 8-month-old son Brandon died recently under similar circumstances. ( CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer ...

  • Kevin Riordan Ceremony honors N.J. grads headed to the military

    Amid the pomp and circumstance of graduation season, retired Army Command Sgt. Maj. Michele S. Jones addresses a banquet audience of 300. But it's almost as though she's speaking directly to Quiomy Abelaria, who looks proud, and his mother, Ana Trinidad, who smiles through tears. "Thank you for having the courage to join the military," Jones says, loud and clear even when ...

  • Henry Clay Smith 3d dance pioneer

    Henry Clay Smith 3d, 67, of Gladwyne, a pioneering force in the fusion of dance, theater, mind-body fitness, and martial arts, died Sunday, May 12, while swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off Alanya, Turkey. Mr. Smith was on the last day of a working trip, and taking a quick dip in a calm, roped-off swimming area when a companion found him floating facedown. Turkish officials said he drowned. ...

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