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  • Camden school clerk alleges attendance inflation

    An attendance clerk at Woodrow Wilson High School filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Superior Court in Camden County alleging attendance inflation by her superiors and the Camden School District. Roxanne Garrett also accuses former Wilson principal Tyrone Richards of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. Richards did not return calls for comment Wednesday. In a six-page ...

  • Some criticize Corbett remark on Latinos on staff

    HARRISBURG - A brief exchange of comments videotaped during an effort to reach out to Latino leaders last week in Philadelphia has created a new wave of controversy for Gov. Corbett. In an hour-long interview Friday during a roundtable sponsored by Al Día News Media, a moderator asked Corbett whether he had any Latinos on his staff. Corbett said he did not, adding quickly, "If you ...

  • Phila. Democrats to meet with Hite

    A week after Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said he was targeting seniority in the teachers' contract to win support from Republican lawmakers for more state aid for the cash-strapped district, the city's Democratic legislative delegation is scheduled to meet with him Thursday to discuss its concerns. State Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Phila.) said he was notified of ...

  • Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of infant

    Holding hands, Catherine and Herbert Schaible leave the Criminla Justice Center after a probation hearing May 6, 2013. The very religious couple, who were convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of a 2-year-old son because they denied him medical care, were in court because their 8-month-old son Brandon died recently under similar circumstances. ( CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer ...

  • Kevin Riordan Ceremony honors N.J. grads headed to the military

    Amid the pomp and circumstance of graduation season, retired Army Command Sgt. Maj. Michele S. Jones addresses a banquet audience of 300. But it's almost as though she's speaking directly to Quiomy Abelaria, who looks proud, and his mother, Ana Trinidad, who smiles through tears. "Thank you for having the courage to join the military," Jones says, loud and clear even when ...


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Pushing Tin

We are told near the beginning of Pushing Tin that air traffic controllers take more lives into their hands in one shift than surgeons take in their entire careers. No wonder it has the highest rates of clinical depression and alcoholism of any profession. ...

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  • Henry Clay Smith 3d dance pioneer

    Henry Clay Smith 3d, 67, of Gladwyne, a pioneering force in the fusion of dance, theater, mind-body fitness, and martial arts, died Sunday, May 12, while swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off Alanya, Turkey. Mr. Smith was on the last day of a working trip, and taking a quick dip in a calm, roped-off swimming area when a companion found him floating facedown. Turkish officials said he drowned. ...

  • Photo shows famous shorebird is going strong

    It looks as if B95 - a shorebird that has attracted both popularity and paparazzi - is continuing his publicity tour of South Jersey. B95 is a red knot, and the name refers to the identifying letter and number on his leg band. But he also has the nickname Moonbird because, in his long life, researchers figure he has flown the equivalent distance to the moon and halfway back. A week ago, the ...

  • Delco woman finally on road to diploma faces new challenge

    For nearly three decades, Denise Logsdon's dream of a college diploma has been at war with the realities of marriage, motherhood, and medical problems. After graduating from Cardinal O'Hara High School in 1985, Logsdon was cruising toward a degree in political science at Vanderbilt University when she left after 21/2 years for a brief marriage to a military man that produced her ...

  • Mall ejects mourning family for F- Cancer hats

    Makia Underwood (left), sister Zakia Clark, and uncle Curran Underwood wear anticancer gear in honor of their late mother. They were escorted from the King of Prussia mall because of the ...

  • Selma B. Laskin guidance counselor

    Selma Balin Laskin was determined to educate herself. Determined enough, son David said, that she not only earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees, she earned all three through evening classes. Mrs. Laskin, 87, a former English teacher and guidance counselor at George Washington High School, died Monday, May 20, of kidney failure at Lions Gate, the continuing care ...

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