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  • Defense Attorney For Convicted Abortion Doctor Defends Gosnell Admits There Should Be Changes To Late Term Abortions

    – The attorney for Kermit Gosnell spoke with Dom Giordano to defend Gosnell’s character and admit there needs to be changes to late term abortion laws. Jack McMahon, Philadelphia defense attorney, joined Giordano for an interview on 1210 WPHT Thursday. During the interview McMahon said that after spending 2 1/2 years with Gosnell, the convicted abortion doctor treated him as a ...

  • CDC Says Majority Of Sandy Victims Drowned

    The study looked at data from 117 deaths captured by American Red Cross mortality tracking during the time period from October 28 to November 30, 2012. The results showed that drowning deaths were most common during the storm, with 45% of those occurring inside New York City's Evacuation Zone A. The most Sandy-related deaths overall occurred in New York and New Jersey. According to the ...

  • City Council OKs Law Requiring Parental Supervision of Teens at Tanning Salons

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — City Council today gave final approval to a bill that limits how minors use tanning salons in Philadelphia. The final vote came after some last-minute pleas from those on both sides of the issue. The measure requires a parent to accompany a teenager to a tanning salon, for each and every visit. Before the final vote, Joseph Levy, with ...

  • Summer Travel Tips From An Expert

    When you're a kid, warm weather means one thing: summer vacation! Sadly, things get a little bit more complicated once we grow up and realize traveling costs hard-earned money. But you don't have to spend a fortune on your summer trip. Travel expert Bob Diener, President of hotel flash-sale ...

  • Araco to direct growth strategies at law firm

    Nick Araco Nick Araco, the co-founder, president, and CEO of AchieveNext and The CFO Alliance, has joined Drinker Biddle & Reath as director of growth strategies. Drinker Biddle will be aiding Araco in running The CFO Alliance, a trade association for finance professionals that has gone national, by offering sponsorship and content for events. Araco will work with the lawyers and clients of the ...


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Aliens: Director's Cut

Aliens: Director's Cut

Note: This review includes references to scenes available only in the special Director's Cut, available on laser disc and DVD. As with so many other films, I feel this Director's Cut is the superior version to that which was released in theaters because it adheres more closely to the artis ... ...

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  • Charter schools join Nutter Hite in funding plea

    Leaders from more than 20 Philadelphia charter schools today joined the school district's campaign to obtain more state and city aid to cover a looming $304 million shortfall. "We have got to share in the advocacy and share in the fight to ensure Philadelphia's public schools are adequately funded," Lawrence Jones, president of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter ...

  • Life for Bucks County musicians killer

    Jermaine M. Jackson was sentenced to life without parole for masterminding a robbery scheme that ended with the shooting death of a popular Bucks County musician. Although Jackson was 19 at the time of the Dec. 28, 2011 crime and did not have a prior criminal record, Bucks County Common Pleas Judge Rea B. Boylan said, "If ever there was a case where a life sentence was appropriate it ...

  • Drowning leading cause of death during Superstorm Sandy

    Story Highlights Drowning was the leading cause of deaths during Superstorm Sandy last fall. A report says 40 of the 117 deaths reported from the storm were caused by drowning. Drowning was also the top cause of death during Hurricane Katrina in ...

  • Cops Suspects smuggled 4000 pounds of pot into Philly over 16 months

    Last month, the detectives from county Prosecutor Risa Ferman's office got approval for a wiretap on the cell phones of the Frederick brothers, left and center. They then allegedly tracked the supply line to a California man, Charles Sadrin, right, who authorities say routinely shipped truck containers full of pot into the region. (Montgomery DA's ...

  • Police W. Pa. man chained boy to table

    CANONSBURG, Pa. - Authorities say a western Pennsylvania man allegedly chained his 11-year-old stepson to the dinner table after he refused to eat the food on his plate. Police say they arrested 38-year-old Joshua Lee Smith of Canonsburg on Monday. That's about 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. Smith allegedly told the boy to finish eating his dinner and when he didn't, made him get ...

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