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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 05/05/13 10:39 pm | updated: 05/05/13 10:39 pm |
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Diocese of Harrisburg officials say Bishop Joseph McFadden died of a heart attack last week after suddenly falling ill while attending a meeting of the Catholic Bishops of Pennsylvania. McFadden died unexpectedly Thursday morning at a hospital near Philadelphia. Officials say McFadden awoke feeling ill and was taken to a hospital. He was 65 years old.
Police say a body was discovered Sunday afternoon on the side of a road in Lower Pottsgrove Township, Montgomery County. The... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 05/02/13 11:06 pm | updated: 05/02/13 11:06 pm |
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The British parent company of the PokerStars website says it still wants to buy an Atlantic City casino, even though a deal to obtain it fell through on Wednesday. The Rational Group said Thursday night it wants to try to save its deal to purchase The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. The casino said Wednesday the purchase deal was dead, but declined to say why.
Just a few months after his daughter survived a drug overdose, Jon Bon Jovi joined New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Thursday... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 05/02/13 5:24 am | updated: 05/02/13 5:24 am |
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Philadelphia has been honored as the best city in the country for culture. For many creative groups that help to shape that reputation, PNC bank continues to serve as a patron of the arts announcing the 21 organizations that would get a share of $1-million in grant money. From small street performers to cornerstones like the Mann Center, where CEO Catherine Cahill says the cash will help them stage a ‘Symphonic Sportstacular’ on June 24.
Twelve thousand chalk body outlines... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 05/01/13 5:23 am | updated: 05/01/13 5:23 am |
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Once the weather and the ground warm up, some parts of the Delaware Valley will see one of nature's spectacles - the mass emergence of a mess of periodical cicadas that have taken 17 years to mature. It looks as if the Magicicada swarms will be localized - and a lot depends on what's happened since their parents saw sunlight. They only live a couple of weeks - enough time to mate and start a new 17-year cycle.
Equality Forum kicks of its free annual Global Lesbian, Gay,... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/30/13 5:27 am | updated: 04/30/13 5:27 am |
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SEPTA officials say an off duty Philadelphia Police officer was stabbed in Northeast Philadelphia Monday night. The incident happened at about 10 p.m. on the 4900 block of Grant Avenue, east of the SEPTA Torresdale Station. The officer was not exiting the station. There is no word on a suspect or motive at this time.
The search for clues continues into what happened to Delaware County mother, Melissa Rodriguez. Friday, April 19th, she told her husband she was... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/28/13 10:26 pm | updated: 04/28/13 10:26 pm |
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A soda bottle wrapped up in electrical tape prompted a scare Sunday afternoon at Virtua Hospital in Voorhees, New Jersey. The incident happened around 4 p.m. when someone found the tape covered soda bottle and thought it looked suspicious. Authorities were notified and the bottle was destroyed. It turned out to be a false alarm.
Crews have pulled a tow boat from the water that sank off the coast of South Jersey, but the captain of the vessel remains missing. The... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/25/13 9:49 pm | updated: 04/25/13 9:49 pm |
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| SEPTA fare evaders, usually young men and women, are being put on notice; if they jump a turnstile to avoid paying the fare, SEPTA is watching. SEPTA now has 1,100 live feed cameras as part of a $50 million video and camera monitoring initiative to catch fare jumpers and keep the system safe for riders. Since the expanded surveillance system went into effect arrests are three times more for fare jumping and five times more for quality of life violations like drunkenness, harassment and... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/24/13 10:35 pm | updated: 04/24/13 10:35 pm |
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The Coast Guard has suspended it search for 32-year-old David McAuliffe, who went missing Tuesday morning aboard a commercial tow boat off the coast of South Jersey. Crews searched more than 400 square miles, for a total of 65 hours. It was reported that Cape Hatteras had survival equipment aboard, including two survival suits and two life rafts.
An undergraduate student fell from a third-story outside stairwell on Chestnut Hill College’s campus on Wednesday afternoon.... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/24/13 5:23 am | updated: 04/24/13 5:23 am |
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Penn's Annenberg School is hosting an event tonight marking the 50th anniversary of a landmark bit of communication, Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail. One of the featured speakers is Delaware County native Jonathan Rieder, Sociology Professor at Barnard College and author of a book on the Letter. He says the Letter makes the case not only for civil rights in the South, but an ongoing battle against injustice anywhere.
In the parking lot of Micro Center in... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/23/13 5:19 am | updated: 04/23/13 5:19 am |
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A pedestrian was struck and killed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in King of Prussia on Monday night. It was about 10:45 p.m. last night on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the Allendale Road overpass in Upper Merion Township where the person was fatally struck by a tractor trailer. The driver of the tractor trailer stopped at the scene. There is no word on what caused the incident.
38-year-old Orlando McNeil was the mastermind behind the kidnapping and robbery of... Read More |
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