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  • Summer Has Arrived in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

    Summer has arrived early in Philadelphia and isn't this weather great! North Shore Beach Club, Philadelphia's only 21 and over swim club has officially opened the swim season! Yes, the pool is open here in Northern Liberties at 1031 Germantown Ave Philadelphia! The club features a 1,500 square foot, 4.5 foot deep POOL! You'll love the Posh Cabanas with personalized service & ...

  • 1 Dead 1 Hospitalized After 2 Separate Overnight Shootings In Philadelphia

    - Philadelphia police are investigating two separate shootings that left one person dead. The first incident occurred around midnight on the 5300 block of Hazelhurst ...

  • Activists Work To Spread The Word On The 175th Anniversary Of The Burning Of Pennsylvania Hall

    - This week marks the 175th anniversary of the malicious burning of Pennsylvania Hall. It was an abolitionist meeting place set ablaze just three days after it opened. Pennsylvania Hall was built in 1838 by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, a group of abolitionists openly fighting slavery. In years prior, the number of African Americans in Philadelphia increased as free and fugitive slaves ...

  • 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 ...


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Movie Review

Take Shelter

Take Shelter

In Jeff Nicholss Take Shelter, Michael Shannon gives the performance of the year as Curtis, a blue-collar Midwestern family man whose increasingly intense nightmares about an approaching storm begin to haunt his waking hours and compel him to construct and stock an elaborate stor ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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