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  • Montco woman held in road death of teen

    A Lansdale woman who allegedly was reading a text message while driving a car that struck two teenagers in Hatfield Township, killing one, has been charged with homicide by vehicle and driving under the influence of alcohol. Bail was set Friday at $100,000 for Sarah Derstein, 31. According to authorities, at 11:34 p.m. April 26, Dennis Kee, 15, of Hatfield, was walking with four friends along ...

  • Racing away to Margaritaville

    DAVID MAIALETTI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER John Hanshew , of Arlington, Va., is a Jimmy Buffett fan. We know because he's pedaling toward Margaritaville in AC . . . and because we hear he's a big fan of ...

  • Police searching for missing boy 12

    Philadelphia police are searching for a 12-year-old boy who they say has not been seen since Wednesday. Maurice Sorzano-Carter was last seen at his house on the 700 block of Brighton Street in Burlhome. Maurice is black with a light complexion and short black hair. He stands 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. He has brown eyes and was last seen wearing tan pants and a navy blue shirt. ...

  • Phila. family fights lung-donor rule for dying girl

    For the parents of Sarah Murnaghan, 10, who is dying of cystic fibrosis at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the bottom line seems heartbreakingly simple: She should be offered the first suitable lungs that become available, whether the donor is a child or adult. Instead, the Newtown Square couple say, organ-donation rules require adult lungs to be offered first to adults who are in ...

  • Phila. judge holds Schaibles in custody

    Concerned that religious supporters in other parts of the country might help secrete Catherine and Herbert Schaible away, a Philadelphia judge has detained the couple, who allowed a second child to die because they believe medical care is a sin. Attorneys for the Schaibles had asked Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner to allow the faith-healing parents to remain free pending their ...


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We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lynne Ramsays We Need to Talk About Kevin is the second film this year to deal with the aftermath of an adolescent boys massacre of his fellow students, but it differs sharply from Shawn Kus Beautiful Boy, which was more of a straightforward psych ... ...

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  • Full season returns to Bucks County Playhouse

    Almost immediately after opening, the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope became known as one of the nation's top summer theaters. More than 1,000 people vied for about 300 tickets on the night of its first show, according to newspaper accounts, and along Main Street, "children peered from trees as Broadway and Hollywood celebrities attended the premiere performance." The ...

  • Robert E. Carlson 91 taught at West Chester University

    Robert E. Carlson, 91, a longtime West Chester resident and history professor who led Chester County's 1982 tricentennial celebration, died Thursday, May 16, of respiratory failure at Riddle Memorial Hospital in Media. Born in Johnstown, he earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1943. That year, he was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy. He ...

  • Six Flags presents new off-road attraction

    A tour truck drives past zebra and giraffes as two Red Ankoli cattle butt heads at the Safari Off Road Adventure attraction at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J. (Jonathan Lai / Staff Photographer ...

  • Case in 1984 paved way for Gosnell prosecution

    The trial involved an aging Philadelphia abortion doctor, a desperate and pregnant 13-year-old, and a baby born alive during an abortion and left to die. But this trial occurred 24 years before that of West Philadelphia's Kermit Gosnell, sentenced Wednesday to three consecutive life terms after a jury found that he murdered three babies born alive in illegal late-term abortions. It was ...

  • Albert C. Toll 93 former grain and feed firm executive

    Albert C. Toll, 93, formerly of Overbrook Park, a retired grain and feed company executive, died Wednesday, May 22, of complications from Parkinson's disease at Ann's Choice, a retirement facility in Warminster. Mr. Toll was all about family. He didn't hesitate to clown around with his daughter, Carol Bress, when she was a toddler, or to pack up her belongings for a car trip to ...

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