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  • Police Bucks burglar stabs man who caught him

    Bensalem Township police say they have arrested a burglar who stabbed and seriously wounded a man who caught him into cars near Street and Mechanicsville Roads. Police released surveilance photos of the alleged stabber on Tuesday, and a suspect was taken into custody Tuesday night. The victim was stabbed about 7:10 p.m. Monday after he came upon the alleged burglar, police said. The man, who ...

  • Nutter other mayors No using food stamps to buy soda

    Story Highlights Mayors are urging Congress to restrict the use of food stamps to buy soda. Nutter has twice tried and failed to enact a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Philadelphia. The American Beverage Association said soft drinks shouldn't be singled out as a cause of ...

  • Three key questions about PA’s newest liquor privatization proposal

    HARRISBURG – The long-awaited state Senate liquor privatization plan was unveiled Tuesday, leaving lawmakers with less than two weeks to get a bill ...

  • Why The Spurs Must Win Game 7

    Last night, the San Antonio Spurs possibly choked away a championship. They led the Miami Heat by 5 points with 20 seconds to play and lost in OT. That’s a choke. You don’t blow 5 point leads with 20 seconds to play. You just can’t do that. Not with a title on the ...

  • Vandals Use Maple Syrup To Vandalize Pottstown Church

    — The Pennsylvania State Police is investigating a strange case of vandalism at a church in Montgomery County. The vandalism happened on June 10th at the Saint Thomas More Roman Catholic Church on Pottstown ...


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To Catch a Thief [Blu-Ray]

To Catch a Thief [Blu-Ray]

To Catch a Thief has never been one of Hitchcocks greatest films. Described by Donald Spoto in The Art of Alfred Hitchcock as a creampuff of a movie with a little suspense at the end and by Hitchcock himself as a lightweight story, it was one of Hitchs thriller-comed ... ...

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  • Chase Utley To Begin Rehab Assignment In Reading

    Phillies second baseman Chase Utley will begin a rehab assignment in Reading on Wednesday, the team announced. Utley’s rehab was delayed a day due to Tuesday’s weather ...

  • Fantasy Baseball Edge Recent Callups

    Wil Myers, Outfield, Tampa Bay Rays After a disappointing 2011 season, Wil Myers went into 2012 with a lot to prove, and prove he did. After absolutely tearing up Triple A to the tune of 13 homers and a .343 average through 35 games, Myers got called up to Double A in the Pacific Coast League. The PCL is known as an enormous hitter's league, so it wasn't surprising when he continued ...

  • Corbett unlikely to get his full pension savings plan

    HARRISBURG - None of the legislative leaders has ever been more than politically polite when assessing Gov. Corbett's proposal to rein in the skyrocketing cost of public pensions in Pennsylvania. But on Tuesday, a top Senate Republican all but said that the governor's full plan is as good as dead. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R., Delaware) told reporters the chamber was ...

  • Cross-state PA Turnpike toll could rise to $50

    to make $450 million annual payments to the state will take an ever increasing toll on taxpayers’ pocketbooks. "If we don’t do something about this by the year 2021, it will cost $50 for the average working Pennsylvanian just to travel across our state," said Auditor General Eugene DePasquale. "That is just unsustainable. There is no way that we can ask the average ...

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