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  • Philadelphia parking authority not winning over fans

    Anyone who has ever watched Parking Wars on the A&E channel sees the Philadelphia parking authority around town and they always say if you are physically with your car, they will let you move your car and won't give you a ...

  • NHL Wrap Rangers beat Bruins to stay alive

    Boston Bruins on Thursday night. New York, which erased 2-0 and 3-2 deficits in the critical Game 4 matchup in the Eastern Conference semifinals, still trails the series 3-1. The Rangers will need to win again on Saturday in Boston to force a Game 6 back ...

  • Judge Wont Alter Delaware Pharmacists Pain Pills Sentence

    A federal judge in Delaware has refused to alter the 20-year prison sentence he gave a former pharmacist who illegally distributed 45,000 Oxycodone pain ...

  • No Bail For Faith Healing Couple Charged In Son’s Death

    – Citing a potential flight risk, a Philadelphia judge orders a faith healing couple to remain in custody for now as they await a preliminary hearing next month on murder charges in the death of their seven-month-old ...

  • Sex Offender Charged For Allegedly Having Child Porn In Delaware

    - Police in Delaware say they have arrested and charged a registered sex offender for dealing in child pornography. According to police, 20-year-old Kevin H. Boone, a student a Delaware Technical and Community College, was taken into custody Thursday after the execution of a search warrant at a home in the 300 block of Senator Drive in ...


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Movie Review

The Gift [DVD]

The Gift [DVD]

The Gift is a gripping genre concoction stirred together out of equal parts suspense-thriller, horror film, ghost story, and rural small-town melodrama. This Southern Gothic mix was brewed by writers Billy Bob Thorton and Tom Epperson, whose previous work together includes A Family Thing (1995) and One False Move (1991), and brought to a boil by director Sam Raimi, whose skil ... ...

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  • Revel Casino Now Fighting For Its Life

    – One year ago, Atlantic City's recovery hopes were pinned on a new, $2-billion resort on the north end of the boardwalk. Today, that resort has emerged from bankruptcy, finding itself owned mostly by its ...

  • Many Hot New Prizes Up For Grabs In Boardwalk Games This Summer

    – People are shelling a lot of money outside the casinos in Atlantic City too. Operators of novelty games on the boardwalk are offering prizes to appeal to a wide variety of folks. A lot of the stuffed toy prizes and games along the boardwalk correspond with popular movies or TV shows to entice people to ...

  • Phoenixville landmark for $1.8 million

    The Columbia House, an institution in Phoenixville, Pa., is up for sale. The Victorian property at 148 Bridge St. was constructed in 1892. Its current owner, Donna Cashman and her late husband, Dan, bought the 13,555-square-foot building in 2000 for roughly $700,000. They totally gutted it and invested about $3 million in improvements ranging from new HVAC systems and electrical work to ...

  • Christie helps usher in Shore season

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, holds 6-week-old Willow DeParre, as first lady Mary Pat Christie looks on as they greet people during the opening of the New Jersey shore, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Christie cut a ribbon to symbolically reopen the state's shore for the summer season, seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Several beach communities ...

  • Actress Amanda Bynes arrested in NYC on a marijuana charge after she threw a bong out a window

    FILE - This 2012 police booking photo released by Los Angeles Conty Sheriff's Department shows actress Amanda Bynes, 26, who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after allegedly hitting a sheriff's patrol car. Bynes was been arrested in midtown Manhattan Thursday May 23, 2013 after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Conty Sheriff's ...

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