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  • Emergency Drill To Take Place At Fairmont Station Of Broad Street Subway

    – At 8:30 a.m. Sunday an emergency drill will take place at the SEPTA Fairmount Station of the Broad Street Subway underground. SEPTA’s Jerry Williams says the drill is designed to see how prepared emergency responders are for a possible terroristic ...

  • Bank Embezzler Pays Steep Prices After Lying Her Way To A 1 Day Sentencing

    – A former South Philadelphia bank branch manager who talked and lied her way to a one day sentence in a half million dollar embezzlement case is now paying a steep price for her lies. Thirty-one-year-old Katherine Harrell has now been sentenced to almost six years in prison for lying at the earlier sentencing. It was quite a tale of ...

  • Author Explains How To Cut Plastic Out Of Your Life

    ? But one woman is turning back the clock. Beth Terry says her world turned inside out a few years ago when she saw a news photo of a dead chick in the mid-Pacific, full of discarded household plastic, some of it perhaps ...

  • Pennsylvania Indicting Grand Jury Option Used In Chester County Murder

    – Pennsylvania recently reauthorized the use of grand juries to indict criminal defendants in certain circumstances, instead of going the traditional route of a preliminary hearing. The option has only been used twice in the state: once in Philadelphia and now in Chester ...

  • Big man Rudy Gobert talks with Sixers

    CHICAGO - Rudy Gobert was the biggest prospect at the NBA draft combine. The center from France stands 7 foot 1/2 in his socks and 7-2 in his sneakers. He has an incredible 7-81/2 wingspan and massive hands. Yet the 20-year-old is a raw talent. He needs to get stronger and polish up his post game in order to contribute in the NBA. However, his athleticism and size are why he's projected ...


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Like many Japanese anime films, Rintaro's "X" is a visually extravagant, exhilarating explosion of animation that makes absolutely no sense. The storyline is secondary to the visuals, and if the visuals weren't so impressive, that might be a detriment. However, "X" is inventive enough in its visual pyrotechnics that it remains fascinating throughout, even when you don't have the vaguest notion of ... ...

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  • Powerball jackpot closing in on another record

    (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki). Cathy Raymond, of Oklahoma City, displays the Powerball Lottery tickets she purchased in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, ...

  • Local Graduate Stays Focused As Father Mother Undergo Kidney Transplant Surgery

    – College graduation can be a joyous time for a family- maybe a bit stressful too – but for a young woman about to graduate from La Salle on Sunday there’s another big event ahead. Kiara Smith hopes to go to law school, maybe as soon as this fall, but she’s not throwing herself at the LSAT immediately. Her father is facing a kidney transplant on May 28th and her mother ...

  • Free Library Of Philadelphia Works To Attract Millennials

    – The Free Library of Philadelphia has launched an ad campaign to try to attract people in their 20′s and 30′s. "At the Free Library of Philadelphia, we’re search engineers," is the message you might hear if you visit the music website Pandora, one of the places the library is going in pursuit of so-called Millennials. They went to the library as kids and they ...

  • Officials Montgomery County Likely To Lose $24 Million

    – Officials in Montgomery County confirm the county is likely to take a $24-million financial hit related to a redevelopment project in Norristown that's now in ...

  • Landing gear issue leads to planes belly landing

    NEWARK, N.J -- An airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson tells The Associated Press that a turboprop plane that left Philadelphia shortly before 11 p.m. Friday landed safely at Newark with its landing ...

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