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  • Workers Protest at Temple Hospital

    The union representing the health care workers at Temple University Hospital is holding a rally right now protesting the administration’s decision to reinstate a terminated employee who allegedly sexually harassed a ...

  • In 2013 Pa. primary most action in the cities

    HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- In Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, most of the action will be in Democrat-controlled cities: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton and ...

  • 7-Year-Old Boy Mom Robbed at Knifepoint

    Police are searching for an armed man who they say robbed a woman while she was with her son. Police say the 43-year-old woman was with her 7-year-old son at the WSFS Bank on Fox Hunt Drive in Bear, Delaware on Saturday, around 6 ...

  • Carlos Ruiz pulled from game with hamstring strain

    The first sign of trouble emerged when Carlos Ruiz hobbled back to first base after an attempted hit-and-run play. Freddy Galvis hit the next pitch Sunday to right for a single and Ruiz was on the move again. He limped into third base grabbing his right leg. Soon, the Phillies catcher was removed with what the team called a right hamstring strain. The severity was not immediately known, but it ...

  • Police Search For Missing College Student Headed Home To Montgomery County

    - Police are searching for a University of Rhode Island student who they say never made it home to Montgomery County. According to police, 21-year-old Matthew Royer left his apartment at school at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday to travel home to Skippack Township in ...


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Movie Review

Husbands [DVD]

Husbands [DVD]

Like his previous film Faces (1968), John Cassavetes independently produced Husbands was born out of his conviction that too many middle-class marriages are stale, dispassionate unions held aloft by creature comforts and social conformity, but little else. Faces captured t ... ...

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  • Knife-Wielding Suspect Robs Mother 7-Year-Old Son In Delaware

    - Police in Delaware are searching for a suspect that robbed a mother and her young son after they went to the ATM. The incident occurred just before 6 p.m. Saturday at the WSFS Bank ATM located in the 200 block of Fox Hunt Drive in Bear. According to police, an unknown suspect approached the victims wearing a mask and armed with a ...

  • Gas Prices Expected To Drop As Summer Travel Season Nears

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The summer travel season is approaching and motorists can expect to pay less at the pump this Memorial Day weekend than they did last year. Analysts predict this will be the cheapest summer at the pump since the end of the recession, even though gas prices have been on a bit of a roller coaster ...

  • Port Richmond Breast Cancer Walk Raises Big Bucks For Research At Local Hospitals

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure grabs all of the headlines, as tens of thousands help to raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research. A small group of older breast cancer survivors are happy to take a back seat with their neighborhood walk through Port Richmond the Sunday after Mother’s Day. The walk up Allegheny Avenue is organized by the Ladies ...

  • Protest planned at Temple hospital this afternoon

    The union representing health care workers at Temple University Hospital has planned a protest outside the entrance of the medical facility on North Broad Street for 4 p.m. Sunday. Without providing specifics, District 1199C of the National Union of Hospital & Health Care Workers said in a release just issued that Temple "has chosen to renounce and violate its contractual obligations ...

  • Eagles offensive lineman Evan Mathis thinking of Tim Tebow

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