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  • Christie helps usher in Shore season

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, holds 6-week-old Willow DeParre, as first lady Mary Pat Christie looks on as they greet people during the opening of the New Jersey shore, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Christie cut a ribbon to symbolically reopen the state's shore for the summer season, seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Several beach communities ...

  • Actress Amanda Bynes arrested in NYC on a marijuana charge after she threw a bong out a window

    FILE - This 2012 police booking photo released by Los Angeles Conty Sheriff's Department shows actress Amanda Bynes, 26, who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after allegedly hitting a sheriff's patrol car. Bynes was been arrested in midtown Manhattan Thursday May 23, 2013 after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Conty Sheriff's ...

  • Chester County institution up for sale

    The Columbia House. The Columbia House, an institution in Phoenixville, Pa., is up for sale. The Victorian property at 148 Bridge St. was constructed in 1892. Its current owner, Donna Cashman and her late husband, Dan, bought the 13,555-square-foot building in 2000 for roughly $700,000, totally gutted it and invested about $3 million in improvements ranging from new HVAC systems and electrical ...

  • Birdman Flying High For The Heat

    MIAMI (CBSMiami) – While the majority of the focus of the thrilling Heat victory in Game 1 will be on LeBron James’ incredible play at the end of the game, there’s another player who was just as key to the Heat getting the win to open the series: Chris Andersen. Andersen set a career high with field goals made and points by going 7-7 and scoring 16 points in the Heat’s ...

  • Driver Charged With DUI In Fatal Hit-Run Of Teen In Hatfield Township

    - A driver has been arrested and is facing several charges in connection with a hit and run crash that fatally injured one teen and left another teen with a broken elbow. Sarah Ann Derstein is facing Homicide by Vehicle While Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and other charges in connection with the incident that occurred on Route 309 in Hatfield Township on April 26th. According to ...


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Movie Review

The Gift [DVD]

The Gift [DVD]

The Gift is a gripping genre concoction stirred together out of equal parts suspense-thriller, horror film, ghost story, and rural small-town melodrama. This Southern Gothic mix was brewed by writers Billy Bob Thorton and Tom Epperson, whose previous work together includes A Family Thing (1995) and One False Move (1991), and brought to a boil by director Sam Raimi, whose skil ... ...

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  • Area Doctor Working On Ways To Get More Lungs For Transplant

    There were 8,000 lungs available for donation last year, but only 20-percent could be used, according to Dr. Vivek Ahya, the Medical Director for the Lung Transplantation Program at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He says many were damaged or diseased and his group is part of a study to determine if those fragile organs could be used to save lives: ';We hook up the lungs to a ...

  • ‘Fuel Your Passion For Fashion’ With New Package At Philadelphia Hotel

    Upscale retailers and boutiques have been cropping up all over Philadelphia, and a local hotel is capitalizing on that with a new deal for fashion lovers. The Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel near Rittenhouse Square is offering a new weekend package called "Fuel Your Passion for Fashion," which aims to get guests shopping at some of the city's best ...

  • Culinary Scene Down The Shore Explodes This Summer

    – If you’re headed down the shore this summer, come hungry, as there many new places to dine. Prehaps the most anticipated addition to the Atlantic City boardwalk culinary scene is the arrival of Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville, located in the Resorts ...

  • Judge Orders Faith-Healing Couple Facing Murder Charges Be Held Without Bail

    A Philadelphia judge has ordered that a couple who believe in faith healing over medicine be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son. Herbert and Catherine Schaible are charged in the death of their baby, Brandon. They’d been convicted of involuntary manslaughter after another child, 2-year-old Kent, died in 2009. Prosecutors say they ...

  • Truck in Wash. span collapse hauled drilling equip

    In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a man is seen sitting atop a car that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge there minutes earlier Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco ...

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