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  • Huge Tornado Kills 51

    MOORE, Okla. - A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 m.p.h. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise. The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in ...

  • Pa. Democrats make registration gains in the suburbs

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  • Future looks grim for Pa. Convention Center

    DAVID M. WARREN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center, at a price tag of $780 million, has failed to live up to projected profits and business increases for the city's hospitality ...

  • Retirement is going to cost you

    WHEN IT COMES to how much money we all need to retire comfortably, it gives us a headache. I just need to say that up front, before telling you about the latest news that is sure to scare you even more about retirement. You probably already know that health care is likely to be among your largest expenses. But how much? In its annual look at medical expenses for retirees, Fidelity Investments ...

  • Haddonfields deputy mayor is given top job

    Haddonfield has its first new mayor in 12 years. Jeff Kasko, 48, the deputy mayor, who was reelected last week to a second term on the Board of Commissioners, was tapped Monday evening by his fellow commissioners to be mayor, Borough Clerk Deanna Bennett said. Kasko, who will remain director of revenue and finance, takes over the post Letitia "Tish" Colombi is vacating. She decided ...


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Movie Review

Drop Dead Gorgeous

It's always a sad sight when a satire goes after a painfully obvious and easy target, and still manages to miss the mark. Such is the case with "Drop Dead Gorgeous," a vicious black comedy about a teen beauty pageant, one of the silliest and most intellectually indefensible rituals of modern American culture. ...

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  • Kurt W. Klein claims adjuster and CYO leader

    Kurt W. Klein, 51, of Springfield, Delaware County, a claims adjuster and former director for the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Youth Organization Athletic Program, died Wednesday, May 15, at home of complications from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease. Since 1992, Mr. Klein was employed by Professional Insurance Adjusters in Malvern, and before that by Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton. He ...

  • Kevin Riordan From a local author adventure story with cinematic sweep

    Patti Sheehy remembers thinking, this story has everything: Bravery, romance, suspense, and an evocative historical backdrop. Plus, it was true. She decided the best way to convey the emotions as well as the political ramifications of a young Cuban soldier's daring 1967 escape to America was as a novel. "It was a story that needed to be told, and I wanted to do it justice," says ...

  • Ex-housekeeper sentenced in Franklin bust theft

    A former house cleaner who stole a rare bust of Benjamin Franklin from a Bryn Mawr house where she once worked was sentenced Monday to six years in prison. U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II also ordered three years of supervised release for Andrea Lawton, 47, of Philadelphia, for taking the 235-year-old bust by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. The bust's owner, lawyer George ...

  • Sandy could change Shores demographic face

    LAVALLETTE, N.J. - Yes, they were here to show off the rebuilt boardwalk in this picturesque seaside town, with its touching buy-a-board messages such as "This too shall pass" etched into the compressed pine planks. But as much as they were peddling the "Jersey Shore is open" message on this foggy morning, neither Mayor Walter "Wally" LaCicero nor Gov. Christie ...

  • A new kind of college signing day

    With cheerleaders, mascots, and thunderous applause, thousands of students from Mastery Charter Schools gathered for a giant pep rally Monday, but the event had nothing to do with sports. It was "College Signing Day," held to celebrate the academic success of 450 high school seniors heading off to pursue degrees in higher education. "We believe you will be the ones . . . to ...

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