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  • Carlos Ruiz pulled from game with hamstring strain

    The first sign of trouble emerged when Carlos Ruiz hobbled back to first base after an attempted hit-and-run play. Freddy Galvis hit the next pitch Sunday to right for a single and Ruiz was on the move again. He limped into third base grabbing his right leg. Soon, the Phillies catcher was removed with what the team called a right hamstring strain. The severity was not immediately known, but it ...

  • Police Search For Missing College Student Headed Home To Montgomery County

    - Police are searching for a University of Rhode Island student who they say never made it home to Montgomery County. According to police, 21-year-old Matthew Royer left his apartment at school at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday to travel home to Skippack Township in ...

  • Knife-Wielding Suspect Robs Mother 7-Year-Old Son In Delaware

    - Police in Delaware are searching for a suspect that robbed a mother and her young son after they went to the ATM. The incident occurred just before 6 p.m. Saturday at the WSFS Bank ATM located in the 200 block of Fox Hunt Drive in Bear. According to police, an unknown suspect approached the victims wearing a mask and armed with a ...

  • Gas Prices Expected To Drop As Summer Travel Season Nears

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The summer travel season is approaching and motorists can expect to pay less at the pump this Memorial Day weekend than they did last year. Analysts predict this will be the cheapest summer at the pump since the end of the recession, even though gas prices have been on a bit of a roller coaster ...

  • Port Richmond Breast Cancer Walk Raises Big Bucks For Research At Local Hospitals

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure grabs all of the headlines, as tens of thousands help to raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research. A small group of older breast cancer survivors are happy to take a back seat with their neighborhood walk through Port Richmond the Sunday after Mother’s Day. The walk up Allegheny Avenue is organized by the Ladies ...


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Movie Review

Husbands [DVD]

Husbands [DVD]

Like his previous film Faces (1968), John Cassavetes independently produced Husbands was born out of his conviction that too many middle-class marriages are stale, dispassionate unions held aloft by creature comforts and social conformity, but little else. Faces captured t ... ...

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  • Protest planned at Temple hospital this afternoon

    The union representing health care workers at Temple University Hospital has planned a protest outside the entrance of the medical facility on North Broad Street for 4 p.m. Sunday. Without providing specifics, District 1199C of the National Union of Hospital & Health Care Workers said in a release just issued that Temple "has chosen to renounce and violate its contractual obligations ...

  • Eagles offensive lineman Evan Mathis thinking of Tim Tebow

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  • NHL Wrap Logan Couture wins Game 3 in OT for Sharks

    Two nights after losing 4-3 on a pair of late power-play goals by Los Angeles in Game 2, the Sharks took advantage of their late-game chances on the power play. Tommy Wingels drew a hooking penalty on Robyn Regehr with 41.7 seconds left in regulation, and the task got even more difficult for Los Angeles when Trevor Lewis was called for goaltender interference when he crashed into Niemi with 4.5 ...

  • Student Heading Home for Summer Goes Missing

    Police say Matthew Royer, 21, has been missing since Thursday. Royer , a student at the University of Rhode Island, left his on-campus apartment around 6:30 p.m. last Thursday and was heading back to his home in Collegeville, Pa. for the summer. Police say Royer never arrived home however and has not been seen since ...

  • Jurors to mull death penalty in Pa. slayings of 12

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Jurors return to federal court in Philadelphia on Tuesday to hear arguments and evidence on whether a drug dealer convicted in the deaths of a dozen people should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of ...

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