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10 Question with Tennis Star Billie Jean King

Tennis star Billie Jean King talks about her passion for people, the joys of giving back and equal opportunity. She contributed to the renovation of ...
Man Shot in Drive-By Near Prom Party

Police say a 22-year-old man was on a dirt bike when a gunman inside a car drove by and opened fire, striking the man in the chest. Sources tell NBC10's Nefertiti Jaquez the man was shot near a prom party. He was taken to the hospital where he later ...
Pennsylvania New Jersey See Economic Boost From Giant Lottery Prizes

– Saturday nights Powerball drawing for $600 million will be the largest in the game’s history, and the second-largest lottery jackpot of all-time. This comes a day after two tickets, one sold in New Jersey, hit the $190 million dollar Mega Millions jackpot ...
Plane Makes Belly Landing In New Jersey After Departing From Philadelphia

-- An airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported. US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson tells The Associated Press that a turboprop plane that left Philadelphia shortly before 11 p.m. Friday landed safely at Newark with its landing gear ...
Philadelphia Coffee Shop Employee Credited With Recognizing Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker

-- Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker. An employee at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is credited with recognizing 24-year-old Caleb ';Kai'; McGillvary, whose fledgling celebrity took a turn toward notoriety when authorities announced this week that he was wanted in the beating death of a New Jersey lawyer three ...

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Take Shelter

In Jeff Nicholss Take Shelter, Michael Shannon gives the performance of the year as Curtis, a blue-collar Midwestern family man whose increasingly intense nightmares about an approaching storm begin to haunt his waking hours and compel him to construct and stock an elaborate stor ... ...

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2nd Annual Love Your Park Week Offers Plethora Of Events For All

- Saturday marks the last day for festivities at the 2nd Annual Love Your Park Week, but there are still plenty of activities going on at more than 25 ...
NJ Resident 1 Of 2 Winners For Mega Millions $190M Drawing

-- Three people who bought Mega Millions tickets in Michigan have won $250,000 prizes in the multistate lottery game. But no tickets sold in the Great Lakes State won the grand prize Friday ...
Summer Has Arrived in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Summer has arrived early in Philadelphia and isn't this weather great! North Shore Beach Club, Philadelphia's only 21 and over swim club has officially opened the swim season! Yes, the pool is open here in Northern Liberties at 1031 Germantown Ave Philadelphia! The club features a 1,500 square foot, 4.5 foot deep POOL! You'll love the Posh Cabanas with personalized service & ...
1 Dead 1 Hospitalized After 2 Separate Overnight Shootings In Philadelphia

- Philadelphia police are investigating two separate shootings that left one person dead. The first incident occurred around midnight on the 5300 block of Hazelhurst ...
Activists Work To Spread The Word On The 175th Anniversary Of The Burning Of Pennsylvania Hall

- This week marks the 175th anniversary of the malicious burning of Pennsylvania Hall. It was an abolitionist meeting place set ablaze just three days after it opened. Pennsylvania Hall was built in 1838 by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, a group of abolitionists openly fighting slavery. In years prior, the number of African Americans in Philadelphia increased as free and fugitive slaves ...

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Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Pallam Raju to visit USA for dialogue on higher education

Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister M.M. Pallam Raju would be on a five-day visit to Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston beginning on May 13 for dialogue on higher education.

"This a continuation of India-US higher education dialogue which was initiated in 2009 after the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to the US during the same year, " Pallam Raju told the media here today.

This visit is the follow up of the Obama-Singh initiative taken on higher education. The focus of the visit would be on strengthening and enhancing higher education initiatives- 8 projects have been identified under this initiative. Strategic dialogue on higher education would take place. The visit will also cover school education and skill development sector.

Pallam Raju also discussed 'Connect to India' programme where US students will be coming and joining higher research institutes in India. The visit will also focus on exchange of faculty and development of faculty.

The Government has also initiated a scheme through University Grants Commission (UGC) to sponsor Indian researchers at the Post-Doctoral level and the first batch of 126 Indian scholars is ready to go to the US Institutions for post-doctoral research. ...