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  • Philly mental health volunteer headed to Okla.

    In the wake of Monday's tornadoes in Oklahoma, volunteers are being deployed from around the country to assist in the recovery, including a woman from Philadelphia. Danelle Stoppel, a volunteer mental health supervisor with the American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania, will leave at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to fly to the tornado-ravaged area. It will be Stoppel's 13th disaster ...

  • Lowly Marlins feast on Phillies 5-1

    MIAMI - They closed the upper deck at Marlins Park, a stadium that has lived for 14 months of baseball. Interest in the home team is infinitesimal. The Marlins scored 2.66 runs per game before Monday, and that is fewer than any major-league team since the game integrated in 1947. They were not the worst offense in the building on Monday night. The Phillies came to Florida with hopes of ...

  • Cole Hamels looks strong but Phillies fall to Marlins 5-1

    MIAMI – The Galvis and Kratz Show arrived a couple innings early at Marlins Park. Freddy Galvis, the utility infielder called into a starting role because of an injury, worked a one-out walk against Miami starter Alex Sanabia in the seventh inning of Monday night’s game. After falling behind in the count after three pitches, Erik Kratz, also in the lineup because of injury, followed ...

  • Atheist and humanist conference comes to Philadelphia

    humanist conference was held in Harrisburg. This year, the conference will be held in Philadelphia and will kick off with an anti-superstition party and feature a long list of guests and a special media seminar. The theme of this year's conference will be "Unity and ...

  • Woman Attacked by Pit Bull Dog Shot Dead

    A woman is in the hospital after police say she was attacked by her pet pit bull at her home on the 4200 block of Ogden Street in West Philadelphia on ...


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Our Town [DVD]

Our Town [DVD]

Playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder believed that life was only worth living if you treasured each moment in time. In the late 1930s, he won the Pulitzer Prize for one his first long plays, "Our Town," a three-act piece that was designed to be performed without sets. ...

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  • Carlos Ruiz To Go On DL Howard Is Day To Day

    -- Philadelphia Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz is headed to the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring and first baseman Ryan Howard is day to day with a sore left knee. Both players had MRI exams on Monday before Philadelphia’s game against Miami. Ruiz has a Grade 2 hamstring strain. He has played in 16 games and is hitting .235 with two RBIs. ';Right now he’ll ...

  • MLB Miami 5 Philadelphia 1

    Justin Ruggiano knocked in a pair of runs Monday in the Miami Marlins' 5-1 win over Philadelphia. Sanabia (3-6) broke a five-start losing streak with his first victory since April 16. The right-hander limited the Phillies to one run on seven hits, walking one while fanning three. Ruggiano's RBI double in the sixth inning broke a 1-1 tie and he doubled the advantage with a run-scoring ...

  • Who Are These Guys Phillies 3 Reds 2

    running from first to third base during the third inning of a baseballgame against the Cincinnati Reds, Sunday, May 19, 2013, inPhiladelphia. Ruiz left the game at the end of the inning. (APPhoto/Tom Mihalek)' ...

  • Sixers have slim chance of moving up in draft lottery

    If history holds in the NBA draft lottery, the 76ers have already experienced the most significant jump in terms of positioning for the draft. (Bill ...

  • Gonzagas 7-foot Olynyk could interest Sixers

    Gonzaga's forward Kelly Olynyk (13) looks on in the second half during a third-round game against Wichita State in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City Saturday, March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick ...

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