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  • Phillies Minor League Report Cody Asche Darin Ruf Roman Quinn all struggle Saturday night

    Special section: Top 25 Phillies prospects Rochester third baseman Ray Olmedo mistakenly threw the ball into center field as he was trying to catch center fielder Jermain Mitchell at second base. Mitchell continued to run and made it all the way to home plate to give Lehigh Valley the lead and eventually the victory. Lehigh Valley held a 2-0 lead heading into the sixth thanks to an RBI double ...

  • Burlington County Looking To Make Rt. 130 Safer For Pedestrians

    - Burlington County is hoping to make one of its major highways a little safer for pedestrians with a little help from New Jersey. Route 130 cuts a 22.5 mile path through a dozen towns in the county. Police departments will share in a $225,000 grant to provide more patrols along the highway over the next 18 ...

  • Villanova Graduates Largest Group Of Female Engineering

    – Commencement ceremonies are being held Sunday for Villanova’s graduating class and among them is the university’s largest ever group of female engineering grads. The national average for female engineering grads is 18-percent, but at Villanova, female engineering graduates make up over ...

  • Kevin Riordan Theres a new show in town

    Inside the former Collingswood Theatre, Tom Marchetty and Josh Longsdorf talk about assembling the cast of their new production. "We've got a photographer, a printmaker, a guy who makes portable power systems, and a woman who's got her own clothing line," Marchetty says. "We're looking for innovators," Longsdorf adds. "People who are passionate about ...

  • At Radnor races a jumping good time

    Mark McMackin and his wife, Shelley, set up their tailgate party at the Radnor Hunt Races. An estimated 20,000 attended the races Saturday - a day to eat, drink, and make merry in spring finery. "This is one of my favorite days of the year," one attendee said. Story, ...


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Movie Review

Ulee's Gold

In the opening shots of "Ulee's Gold," we watch the title character, Ulee Jackson (Peter Fonda) carefully going about his job of beekeeping. He does everything tenderly and carefully, and he is alone in his work. Actually, he is alone in more than his work. Life's hardships have toughened him, and made him draw back from human contact. He rarely communicates with his son, Jimmy (Tom Wood), who is ... ...

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  • Connie Williams 72 East Camden activist

    Connie Williams, 72, a community activist who worked with children and police to keep her East Camden neighborhood safe, died early Saturday, May 18, of lung cancer. Ms. Williams ran after-school and summer crime-prevention programs in an effort to keep children active and away from drugs. For the last decade, she had been president of the East Side Civic Association in Camden. "It's ...

  • Silicon Valleys unlikely new favorite cause Gov. Christie

    Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, and Mark Zuckerberg, center, founder and CEO of Facebook listen as N.J. Gov. Chris Christie talks about the states schools, during a press conference at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Zuckerberg is there to talk about his donation of $100 million to help Newark public schools (AP Photo/Rich ...

  • Obamas activism is starved for trust

    WASHINGTON - Whatever else happens as a result of the multiple controversies that have engulfed the administration, one thing is clear: President Obama has failed to meet one of the most important goals he set out when he was first elected, which was to demonstrate that activist government could also be smart government. Six weeks after winning the presidency in 2008, Obama reflected on the ...

  • McGraw delivers brawny two-hour set

    Tim McGraw performs during the Two Lanes of Freedom Tour at the Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, May 17, 2013. ( DAVID M WARREN / Staff Photographer ...

  • Edward J. Nolen 80 Penn accountant

    Edward J. Nolen, 80, of Cape May, a longtime accountant for the University of Pennsylvania, died of kidney failure on Wednesday, May 15, at St. Joseph Villa, a nursing-care facility in Flourtown. Born in Abington, Mr. Nolen graduated from La Salle College High School and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting at what is now La Salle University. A nephew, Jay McCarthy, said Mr. Nolen ...

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