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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Obama to speak on legality of drone program

    A White House official says Obama will also address other counterterrorism policies, including stalled efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention ...


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Movie Review

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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  • Girl Fights Off Attempted Abduction Police

    On Monday, at 8:30 p.m., police were called to the Harbor House Apartments on the 200 block of Harbor Drive in Claymont. When they arrived, they were met by a woman who claimed a man tried to abduct her 9-year-old ...

  • Local Non-Profit Awards Scholarships To Young Social Activists

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Hardy Williams Education Fund awarded scholarships to six students in Philadelphia interested in careers in government, law or social action. ';I had the dream since I was in the 7th grade and I feel like it’s coming true,'; says Attiyah Burgess, 19. The Penn State freshman is one of six graduate, undergraduate and high school seniors awarded ...

  • Philadelphia teen dies in ATV accident

    A 13-year-old died Saturday morning when he was thrown from his all-terrain vehicle, police said, after losing control of it as he drove on a street in Southwest Philadelphia. The boy, whose identity was not released Saturday, was driving a 2002 Yamaha four-wheel ATV eastbound on the 5900 block of Elmwood Avenue. He was seen weaving in and out of traffic, police said. Around 9:30 a.m., a ...

  • 1 ticket wins $590.5 million in Powerball

    Sheila Sutton updates the Powerball prize money sign at the Super C convenience store in Lincoln, Neb., Friday, May 17, 2013. Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize. Sutton sold a million dollar powerball ticket on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Nati ...

  • Victim Claims $24K Stolen During Home Invasion In Philadelphia

    - Police are investigating an overnight home invasion in Philadelphia. The incident occurred just before 12:30 a.m. on the 7100 block of Paschall ...

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