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  • 1 Dead 4 Hurt in 4 Shootings in a Matter of 6 Hours

    Then, around 1 a.m., a 20-year-old man was shot in the face along the 5500 block of Broomall Street in Southwest Philadelphia. Police on the scene said he was taken to the hospital in critical condition. No one was arrested and police didn’t give a motive for the ...

  • Veterans Advisory Commission Holds Resource Fair At City Hall

    Philadelphia’s veterans can get information on dozens of services and benefits today at the second annual Veteran’s Resource Fair at City Hall. ';We’re going to have approximately 26 tables where people will be able to come over and get information, get counseling,'; says Darrell Clarke, president of Philadelphia City Council. He says the Council’s Veterans ...

  • Isiah Leggett talks Montgomery County nightlife woes

    Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett addressed the 20-plus-member Nighttime Economy Task Force on Monday at its first-ever meeting in Silver Spring, BethesdaNow.com reported. The task force has six months to come up with solutions to problems that could require major changes in the county's suburban culture to fix, and Leggett said there are ...

  • Report Urges End To Automatic Teacher Tenure in Philadelphia Public Schools

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A new study says Philadelphia could do a better job of hiring and evaluating its public school teachers. The report by ...

  • Waters loses for Superior Court

    HARRISBURG - Allegheny County Court Judge Jack McVay defeated Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Joseph Waters Jr. on Tuesday for the Democratic nomination for a vacant seat on the state Superior Court. McVay, 56, a former pharmacist who is serving his sixth year in the county's Family Court, beat Waters, 60, a retired Philadelphia police captain who is in his fourth year on the bench, in ...


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Movie Review

Stigmata

In "Stigmata," Patricia Arquette plays Frankie Paige, a carousing atheist hairdresser who is suddenly afflicted with the titular experience, which involves her physically manifesting the five wounds of Christ--nail holes in the wrists and feet, whip lashes on the back, cuts from the crown of thorns on the scalp, and a spear-inflicted wound in the side. The movie's general idea of suspense is to m ... ...

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  • Bachtle wins in Bucks in top suburban race

    Despite a notably low turnout, local government candidates battled it out Tuesday in primaries across the four Pennsylvania suburban counties, with two Republican incumbents in Bucks County facing primary challenges for row offices. The prothonotary's race was the heated contest in Bucks. With more than nine-tenths of voting districts reporting, incumbent Pat Bachtle, elected in 1994 as ...

  • Butkovitz wins Phila. Democrats controller race

    Alan Butkovitz walking into the Palm in Center City after winning the primary that is likely to give him another term as Philadelphia City Controller. (Yong Kim / Staff ...

  • Young Main Line birders land in elite company

    For three Main Line high school students, the night was already bad. And it was about to get worse. It was a quarter to midnight. They were standing in a North Jersey swamp, listening to owl calls. In 15 minutes, a rigorous statewide birding competition would begin. They would spend the next 24 hours crisscrossing New Jersey, looking - and listening - for every bird they could find. Suddenly, ...

  • Buyers say theyll reopen Woodcrest as golf course

    The Marlton real estate group that won the auction for Woodcrest Country Club is planning to reopen the Cherry Hill club as a public golf course, township officials said Tuesday. The Haydingers - principals of First Montgomery Group - contacted Mayor Chuck Cahn on Tuesday and shared their plans for the property, saying "they do not at this point plan to seek a zoning change," township ...

  • Translating Tourette into artistry

    In the dance lexicon of Sutie Madison, an uncontrollable twitch is a beautiful thing. A flailing arm and jerking head are the equivalent of a graceful pirouette. Dance, for Madison, is an art form whose choreography is based on the symptoms of the Ambler artist's neurological disease. "We take the tics and teach them," Madison, 32, said last week. Since she was 8, the ...

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