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  • New special interest comes to PA liquor privatization party

    HARRISBURG - Inside Pennsylvania’s liquor privatization debate, everyone wants a taste. A new special interest is asking for a seat at the table after the state legislature’s actions threaten the finances of its members. The Liquor Store Real Estate Owners Association is the latest opponent to liquor ...

  • Philadelphia Daily News Molly Eichel column

    May 23--PHILLY'S OWN Kate Flannery has chosen her first post-"The Office" assignment. Flannery will star in "Love, Loss and What I Wore," the off-Broadway smash written by the dearly departed writer/director Nora Ephron and her sister Delia, for the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Although Flannery has played local clubs with her musical comedy group, the Lampshades, this ...

  • For Philadelphia bicyclist a cat is his co-pilot

    Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on ...

  • Body Found in Burned Out Apartment

    Firefighters on the scene of the Allentown, Pa. apartment blaze told NBC10 that they found a man's body on the top floor but that the body appeared to not be related to the ...

  • Police Missing Pa. students whereabouts unknown

    SKIPPACK, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania State Police say they still don’t know the whereabouts of a suburban Philadelphia college student who disappeared while returning home from the University of Rhode ...


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Pushing Tin

We are told near the beginning of Pushing Tin that air traffic controllers take more lives into their hands in one shift than surgeons take in their entire careers. No wonder it has the highest rates of clinical depression and alcoholism of any profession. ...

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  • Coalition Of Lawyers Plegde To Serve Low-Income Families

    Eighty percent of low-income families have no access to lawyers in civil cases — even when their home or child custody is at stake. A coalition of lawyers is hoping to change that. It was 1963 when the US Supreme Court ruled that indigent clients have a right to counsel in serious criminal matters. But low-income individuals involved in serious civil legal matters are left on their own, ...

  • FDA Regulations Change Sun Screen Packaging

    Tis the season to buy sunblock and you might notice the bottles are presented a little differently this year. There are several changes to how sun screens are labeled. Under new FDA regulations companies can’t label their sun screens as water proof or sun block. The SPF number now tells you how long the product will protect you from UVB-rays. These are the ultraviolet rays that are the ...

  • Philadelphia Activists Arrested Framed and Denied Bail for Speaking Out in Favor of Marijuana Legalization

    May 23, 2013 (Philadelphia, PA, May 22, 2013) -- Comedy-activist troupe "The Panic Hour" and activist advocate Shield Mutual are supporting a rally Thursday May 23, 2013 at the James A. Byrne federal courthouse at 601 Market St. in Philadelphia that will demand the immediate and unconditional release of activists Adam Kokesh and N.A. Poe from federal prison. More than two hundred ...

  • What’s Cooking on 1060 Memorial Day Grilling Tips New Book About Cheese

    By Hadas Kuznits . PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Memorial Day weekend means backyard grilling! Everybody with a spatula thinks they are a master griller. But what separates the pros from the amateurs? ';I guess it’s your preparation, and knowing your cuts of meat,'; says Richie Furino (top photo), regional manager for Del Frisco’s restaurants. ';You know, a filet ...

  • Jay Lloyd’s Getaway Boating Safety Voices of Experience

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