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  • Wooing Shore Tourists With Wacky Events

    The first Memorial Day weekend since Superstorm Sandy will soon be getting underway at the Jersey Shore and businesses are working hard to get ready for the crowds. NBC10 Jersey Shore Bureau reporter Ted Greenberg has the ...

  • Jersey Shore Businesses We’re ‘Stronger Than Sandy’

    – It’s the start of Memorial Day weekend — a day marked on the calendar of Jersey Shore residents and business owners, ever since Hurricane Sandy struck seven months ago. Months of cleanup and rebuilding have brought much of the Jersey shoreline almost back to normal, after Sandy. On Long Beach Island, reconstruction continues, but Lori Pepenella of the Southern Ocean County ...

  • DeSean Jackson Explains ‘Pot’ Tweet

    The Eagles have not had a ton of luck on Twitter over the last couple of years. From Jason Babin arguing with fans, to LeSean McCoy’s situation with the mother of his son, it doesn’t seem like the players have always totally grasped the possible repercussions of what they say. So when DeSean Jackson tweeted a picture of an E-Card last week that said ';I’m high on life. Or ...

  • Camden Man Pleads Guilty To Cashing Stolen Checks

    — A Camden man has pleaded guilty to a role in a scheme to steal checks from industrial-park mailboxes and cash them. Thirty-five-year-old Michael Ingalls pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possessing stolen ...

  • Fear Of Sandy Damage At Jersey Shore Leaves Rental Inventory On The Books

    – There’s still time to book a week at the South Jersey Shore and real estate agents say there are a lot of good reasons to do so. Any annual shore-goer can tell you: by this time, any other year, there’d be very little left to rent but this year, rental agents are still working. Arno Apel of Ashore Realty says Cape May and Atlantic Counties expected to be busier than ever ...


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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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  • Guide To Philadelphia’s Farmers’ Markets

    The local food craze has swept the nation, and with so many farmers' markets within the city and scattered throughout the suburbs, Philadelphians can take their pick of delicious, local produce, dairy products and baked goods...even artisinal chocolate and natural beauty products! But before you shop, there are a few things to consider. While some markets accept debit and credit cards, ...

  • Plenty To Do If You’re Staying In Town For Memorial Day Weekend

    – If you’re not headed down the shore this weekend for Memorial Day, there’s plenty to do right here in and around Philadelphia. Meryl Levitz with the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation says Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia is full of events. For example you can celebrate the holiday all week long at ...

  • 5 local firms win Governors ImPAct Awards

    Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett Five southwestern Pennsylvania companies were among winners Thursday at the Governor's ImPAct Awards. The awards go to companies and entrepreneurs who are building businesses and jobs in the commonwealth. The awards come from the Department of Community and Economic Development, the Team Pennsylvania Foundation and Journal Multimedia. The winners in southwestern ...

  • Reproduction Of Historic Slave Ship Arrives At Seaport Museum

    – The Independence Seaport Museum welcomes a special guest along the Delaware River, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. The Schooner Amistad arrived Thursday afternoon. The 129-foot Baltimore Clipper was built in 2000 as a replica of the historic Spanish cargo ship La Amistad. The ship became famous in 1839, when 54 slaves being transported from Cuba rebelled and captured the ship, ...

  • 3 hurt in apparent explosion at Coatesville steel plant

    COATESVILLE, Pa. (AP) - An apparent explosion at a Coatesville steel plant has left three people injured.It happened around 10 p.m. Thursday at the Arcelor-Mittal plant in Coatesville, in Chester County. Investigators say a bucket containing molten steel apparently exploded, injuring the three workers.Authorities are still trying to determine exactly what happened.The conditions of the injured ...

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