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  • Mayor Nutter received lien shutoff notice for delinquent PGW bill

    MAYOR NUTTER - the same man who has repeatedly staged news conferences to publicly shame tax deadbeats - was delinquent on his gas bill and received a three-day shutoff notice from Philadelphia Gas Works, ...

  • Pregnant woman wounded in N. Phila. triple shooting

    A pregnant 31-year-old woman was wounded in a triple shooting Wednesday afternoon in North Philadelphia, police said. Shortly before 4 p.m., gunfire erupted in the 1000 block of West Dakota Street, said Chief Inspector Scott Small. The woman was shot in the chest, buttocks, and a leg, Small said. She was rushed by 22d District officers to Temple University Hospital, where she was listed in ...

  • Philadelphia Is Not Building a $400M Prison

    This is an aerial view of SCI Graterford State Prison Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1995 in Collegeville, Pa. The state is building a new prison complex next door called SCI ...

  • SRC Votes To Revise Outdated School Donation Policy

    The Philadelphia School Reform Commission Wednesday night voted to change a 31-year-old policy, now making it easier for schools to accept much-needed grants or ...

  • Audit Reveals Problems With 2012 Election At Philadelphia Polling Places

    Days after the City Controller’s audit on the spike in the number of provisional ballots cast at Philadelphia polls in the 2012 election, a fact-finding team appointed by Mayor Nutter has released its own version of what went ...


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Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [DVD]

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [DVD]

Wings of Desire, which marked director Wim Wenders return to his native Germany after more than a decade making films in other countries, is dedicated to all the old angels, especially Yasujiro [Ozu], Franois [Truffaut], and Andrei [Tarkovsky]--all of whom are cinematic mast ... ...

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  • Masterman Students Teachers Run To Raise Money For Extracurriculars

    The 1600 block of Spring Garden Street may look more like a track and field venue todaybetween the hours of 8:30am and 2:00pm, as students at Masterman High run to raise cash for their ...

  • Corbett May Have To Settle For Watered Down Pension Reform Bill

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  • A Summer Of Free Fun On Tap At Penn’s Landing

    Delaware River Waterfront Corporation says there are a lot of events planned throughout the summer at the Great Plaza. ';We have the PECO Energy multicultural series which features different cultural and ethnic events all summer long,'; Milkman said there’s also a free Jazz concert series. ';We also have an outstanding free gospel concert with world-renownedHezekiah ...

  • Bicyclist impaled on fence post in Fairmount Park

    A man in his 40s was riding a bicycle through a curvy ribbon of Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park section overnight when he lost control, crashed, and was impaled on a metal picket, according to police. It was not known why the man lost control at about 1:25 this morning as he was riding downhill on a 10-speed bicycle at Black Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. But he ended up off the ...

  • Almost Justice Two mothers sad bond over one trial

    Chapter 5: One Trial, Two Mothers Beau Zabel's mother sat in the lonely pews of a Philadelphia courtroom. She had prayed for strength and grace for what lay ahead. Another woman walked in, wearing a strained smile. It held back waves of sorrow. "This is Tyrek's mother," the prosecutor ...

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