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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/09/12 6:44 am | updated: 01/09/12 6:44 am |
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The Penn State Alumni Association is sponsoring a series of meetings for school president, Rodney Erickson to discuss the Jerry Sandusky abuse scandal and its aftermath.
Thursday, over 600 people have registered to meet at the Radisson Hotel Valley Forge, where Erickson is attempting to fix the school’s public image and will try to ease concerns over cover-up allegations and the firing of long-time head coach Joe Paterno, among other issues.
Registration for... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/05/12 7:22 am | updated: 01/06/12 6:46 am |
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Plans were to fast track internet gambling in New Jersey through Senate and Assembly Committes today and have it on Governor Chris Christie's desk by Monday.
Instead, sponsors will reintroduce the plan next week when a new legislature is seated.
The idea is to allow personal online accounts with Atlantic City casinos for New Jersey residents only and they must be within the state while gambling.
And word is it may require a voter... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/05/12 7:21 am | updated: 01/05/12 7:21 am |
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CBS 3 reports court officials in Montgomery County are now seeking an "out of county" district court judge to decide whether former county commissioner James Matthews will be held for trial on perjury charges.
The prosecution and the defense say they are both on the same page when it comes to assigning an "out of county" district justice to preside over the preliminary hearing.
Matthews was arrested last month and charged with lying to a grand jury that was... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/05/12 7:19 am | updated: 01/05/12 7:19 am |
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Former Philadelphia City Council staffer Christopher Wright, former chief of staff to the recently retired at-large councilman Jack Kelly, had been convicted in 2009 of what's called "honest services fraud," for helping a developer who was giving him a rent-free apartment.
But last year, the US Supreme Court rejected one component of the honest services fraud law as too vague, and now a federal appeals court has, in turn, thrown out Wright's conviction. Now, he's waiting to see... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/02/12 9:30 am | updated: 01/02/12 9:30 am |
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Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput is seeking to sell the large estate in Overbrook where he lives.
A source says the proposal to sell the archbishops' residence has been presented to the priests' counsel and the finance counsel and now has only to be approved by the Vatican.
The source also says the bishop does not want to continue to live in such splendor in the eight-plus acre estate when he is about to ask area Catholics to accept sacrifices in the... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/02/12 9:28 am | updated: 01/02/12 9:28 am |
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According to a top tourism official, it was a rip-roaring New Year's holiday in terms of bringing people to enjoy the festivities in Philadelphia.
Meryl Levitz, president and CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation noted:
"Franklin Square had 15-hundred people for the "square drop." Both skating parties at Penn's landing sold out. The preliminary numbers for the fireworks for the New Year's Eve 6 pm show were 50-thousand on both sides of the... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/02/12 9:27 am | updated: 01/02/12 9:27 am |
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Mayor Michael Nutter was sworn in for a second term at an Inaugural Ceremony at the Academy of Music.
In his inaugural speech, Mayor Nutter addressed several challenges the city faces including violence, with six murders this New Year’s weekend in Philadelphia. Mayor Nutter talked about some of his plans including implementing 120 new police officers by this summer.
He also said public education is the other major challenge facing this city.
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/29/11 7:47 am | updated: 12/29/11 7:47 am |
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Hockey's Winter Classic is January 2nd between the Flyers and New York Rangers. One of the other many outdoor hockey games on tap for Citizens Bank Park next week will be a college battle between 14-2 Penn State and 7-3 Neumann University on January 4th.
Neumann is one of the top squads in Division III while Penn State is transitioning up to the Division I level from club status in the ACHA. Nittany Lions head coach Guy Gadowsky says that transition is going quite well.Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/29/11 7:44 am | updated: 12/29/11 7:44 am |
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Opponents of a plan to form a new Camden County Police Department, with the city of Camden it's one and only participant, have laid out their plans to kill the whole idea before it ever gets started.
Police union leaders were flanked by community activists on the steps of Camden City Hall. Former city councilman Ali Sloan-El believes the move to a countywide force isn’t meant to keep the people safe, “That is union busting and that is taking our rights and this is a takeover... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/29/11 7:42 am | updated: 12/29/11 7:42 am |
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Mayor Nutter named 77-year-old Sonia Sanchez, a noted poet and teacher, the city's first poet laureate.
Nutter says Sanchez "exemplifies the role a poet can play in helping to define a city and helping its citizens discover beauty."
Sanchez, who lives in west Philadelphia, says she has already fielded congratulations from fellow writers Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. She says people are telling her she's been the city's unofficial poet laureate for years.Read More |
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