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  • Phillies Minor League Report Cody Asches four-RBI game lifts IronPigs to victory

    Phillies third baseman Cody Asche recorded four RBI to lead the IronPigs to victory on Monday. (David Maialetti/Staff file ...

  • Judge To Decide In Several Weeks Whether To Throw Out Corbett’s Case Against NCAA

    – A federal judge in Harrisburg says she expects to rule in a couple of weeks on the NCAA's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Governor Corbett over sanctions against Penn State stemming from the Jerry Sandusky scandal. A judge heard arguments in the case yesterday. Governor Corbett's lawsuit is an anti-trust suit, saying the NCAA violated its own rules in bringing sanctions ...

  • Choices For Controller Dominate Philadelphia Primary Ballot

    – Today brings the Pennsylvania primary, and Philadelphia voters will choose among their party’s candidates for District Attorney, and judicial ...

  • Man 26 shot dead in North Philadelphia

    Police were investigating the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man late Monday night. Officers responded to Uber Street near Montgomery Avenue in North Philadelphia just before 10:45 p.m. and found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds to the chest, buttocks and back, Chief Inspector Scott Small said. Police took him to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:30 p.m. ...

  • The kitten who refused to die

    Elvis the kitten has already burned through 9 lives -- and he’s only a year old. His ordeal has a (mostly) happy ending, but what an ordeal it’s been: A near fatal encounter with a deadly flower; renal failure; four weeks of kidney dialysis and, finally, a $15,000 kidney transplant at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s still not out of the woods. The saga begins on ...


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Movie Review

Drop Dead Gorgeous

It's always a sad sight when a satire goes after a painfully obvious and easy target, and still manages to miss the mark. Such is the case with "Drop Dead Gorgeous," a vicious black comedy about a teen beauty pageant, one of the silliest and most intellectually indefensible rituals of modern American culture. ...

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  • SUV crashes when dog gets stuck in steering wheel

    BERWICK, Pa. (AP) -- Police in central Pennsylvania say a woman lost control of her sport-utility vehicle, drove along a sidewalk and crashed after her small dog got tangled up in the steering ...

  • Stray Bullet Whizzes Past Family Watching TV

    The investigation into the shooting was just beginning. Police were called to a nearby home where a stray bullet nearly missed a woman and her daughter as her grandchildren slept ...

  • Huge Tornado Kills 51

    MOORE, Okla. - A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 m.p.h. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise. The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in ...

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