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  • Abducted 5-year-old girls family to sue

    The family of a 5-year-old girl who was abducted from a West Philadelphia classroom and sexually assaulted at a nearby house plans to sue the Philadelphia School District, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday. "We have a precious, innocent 5-year-old, now 6 years old, who was brutally assaulted and terribly injured," said Thomas R. Kline, the lawyer representing the girl's ...

  • NHL Wrap Quick burst lifts Red Wings over Blackhawks

    DETROIT -- Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller scored 31 seconds apart midway through the second period and Pavel Datsyuk restored a two-goal lead in the third to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 Monday night to take a 2-1 lead in the second round ...

  • Big Plans In The Works To Revitalize Lower Lancaster Avenue

    – Dozens were on hand at the historic Hawthorne Hall near N. 38th Street and Lancaster Avenue for a ceremonial brick laying to mark the beginning of ';Make Your Mark,'; a community driven effort to revitalize lower Lancaster Avenue. ';Think quality schools, think places to play shop and work, think quality and affordable housing both to rent and to own,'; says Farah ...

  • Polls Close In Pa. Primary And The Counting Begins

    -- The polls are now closed in Pennsylvania’s primary election and now the counting begins. Most of Wednesday’s balloting was by Democrats and Republicans to choose nominees for the Nov. 5 general election. Officials said turnout was around 20 ...

  • N.J. man found guilty of using GPS more than 500 times to stalk ex-wife

    A Mullica Hill, N.J., man was found guilty Tuesday of stalking his ex-wife late last year with the help of a GPS device hidden inside her car. Paul W. Prince, 49, activated the device more than 500 times in a month before his ex-wife's brother discovered the tracking device last November connected to the electronic system of the victim's car, according to Gloucester County ...


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Movie Review

Ghosts of Mars

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars starts out as a fairly effective sci-fi horrorshow, then quickly devolves into a mindless action movie that involves a small group of survivors machine-gunning hordes of possessed zombies. Carpenter, who cowrote the screenplay with Larry Sulkis, has an interesting central idea (even if it is lifted in part from Mario Bava's 1965 pulp thriller Planet of th ... ...

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  • Man Hurt After Throwing Dead Vets Grenade Police

    Police say a woman was taking the belongings of her dead husband, a Vietnam Veteran, out of her home on Van Dyke Drive in New Castle, Delaware around 8 a.m. As the woman was cleaning, police say her neighbor, a 56-year-old man, asked if he could have a few ...

  • 2 Men In NJ Indicted In Scam With Dyed Money

    -- A New Jersey man and a Philadelphia resident were indicted Tuesday on charges they scammed victims with worthless paper dyed black that was portrayed as real money and sold to people who paid to have the dye removed. The indictment was handed up against 38-year-old Nyondah Blay of Trenton and 36-year-old Carl Jenkins, New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa said. Each man is charged with ...

  • Jersey Shore Residents Identify With Pain Of Those In Oklahoma

    – Moments after a tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, rescue teams were out looking for survivors. They couldn’t think of themselves – they had to focus on others. It’s a feeling Firefighter Tim Farrell knows well. "We kept on going through the night because we knew there were a lot of people out there that needed our assistance," said Farrell. Farrell was a ...

  • Baby peregrine falcons nest at Philadelphia City Hall

    An official with the Pennsylvania Game Commission said a quartet of baby peregrine falcons at Philadelphia City Hall are estimated to be about 30 days old. F. Arthus McMorris, the peregrine-falcon coordinator for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, said he spent Monday banding the birds, which are the offspring of a mated pair among just 33 known peregrine falcons in the state, the Philadelphia ...

  • Chester Co. man charged in killing long-time girlfriend

    A Chester County man who shot and killed his long-time girlfriend today has been charged with murder. Gregory Twyman, 44, allegedly gunned down Jamica Woods about noon at their East Fallowfield Twp. home near Coatesville, police said. Chief Chris Porter, one of the first on the scene to take Twyman into custody, did not comment on a motive in the killing and said more details will be released ...

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