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  • Men Burst in Beat Up Disabled Veteran

    The homeowner, a 58-year-old vet who receives daily nursing care plus help from neighbors, opened the door -- which has a "US Marines" bumper sticker on it -- thinking it was a neighbor who had helped him earlier. Instead, a group of masked men burst ...

  • Philadelphia Police Fired At More Suspects Last Year Than In The Previous Two Years Officials Blame Armed Suspects

    — Philadelphia police figures show a marked increase in the number of officer-involved shootings, but police officials deny there’s a trend and blame the increase on more heavily armed suspects. Philadelphia police officers shot 52 people last year, according to department figures. That’s up from 35 in 2011 and 43 in ...

  • Former Hockey Star Reflects On Highs And Lows Of His Career

    — To long-time hockey fans, the name Derek Sanderson may bring memories of a wildly-talented wild man. He’s out with his third autobiography, this time a more complete look at a life of success and failure. Today’s 66 year old Sanderson dismisses his earlier life stories, written at 24 and ...

  • National Immigration Rates On The Rise While Births Are On The Decline

    — Recent Census Bureau projections show that immigration rates are up in the Unites States, while the number of births have declined. ';The report shows that within the next 30 years, immigration will become the biggest driver of US population growth,'; says Amanda Bergson-Shilcock of the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians. She says, the natural increase when the number of ...

  • Gaming Board Official Concerned About Free On-Line Casino Games

    — Some Pennsylvania casinos have been offering free casino type games on the Internet. This is a practice that's been put on hold for the time being by a top gaming board official, who wants to make sure they're not accessible to young people. There's no money involved in playing the Internet games, some of which mimic games offered in ...


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The Complete Jean Vigo [Blu-Ray]

The Complete Jean Vigo [Blu-Ray]

Jean Vigo will forever be one of cinemas tragically lost geniuses. An unconventional artist whose life was taken at 29 by tuberculosis, he had just four short years to work behind the camera, turning the love of movies he cultivated in his early 20s into his own form of cinematic poetry. Working largely outside the French studio system and helped by friends and family (particularly his wealthy and ... ...

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  • Villanova graduates a record number of female engineers

    Hillary Guardo (from left), Rebecca Weigand, and Christine Alizzi are among the female engineering graduates. (Michael Bryant / Staff ...

  • For Philadelphia Futures director this college success story was personal

    For the last 13 years, Joan Mazzotti has made a public career of helping low-income, first-generation students from Philadelphia's public high schools get into and through college. Quietly, she and her husband, Michael Kelly, also have made it a personal mission in the case of two Haitian-born orphans, who received their degrees Sunday at Haverford College, a selective, liberal arts school ...

  • N.J. developmental centers brace for huge change

    TRENTON - With its imposing, Victorian-era buildings and leafy, college-like campus, the Vineland Developmental Center was in its time a state-of-the-art institution for treating young women with complex mental and emotional disorders. At its peak in the late 1950s, just over 2,000 women lived at the center. Once there, often at the behest of families that no longer could care for them, they ...

  • Beverly B. Brownstein 75 businesswoman

    Beverly B. Brownstein, 75, of Bala Cynwyd, who helped her husband build an ad agency and later ran her own businesses, died Monday, May 13, at home after battling breast cancer for several years. Born in South Philadelphia, Mrs. Brownstein was 19 when she married her future husband, Berny, who was 21. They began their lives together in Mount Airy and then moved to Cheltenham, where they raised ...

  • Flocking for a taste of Evesham

    Mike and Donna Hesse of Mount Laurel stroll down Main Street in Evesham during the fifth annual "Taste of Evesham" day. (Clem Murray / Staff ...

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