A murder-suicide in a well-to-do neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia was discovered Tuesday. A man and woman were found stabbed to death. 60-year-old Lawrence Carty stabbed 68-year-old widow and former friend Virginia McLaughlin inside her home near Woodhaven Road. Neighbors told police Carty and McLaughlin were friends, but that ended after an argument last week. Police found the weapon...

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State law allowing ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft to operate in the city of Philadelphia expires at the end of the month... and right now there's no agreement on an extension. Uber and Lyft operate outside Philadelphia under the authority of the Public Utility Commission. The state House is in session next week and the Senate is in the last week of the month. Steve Miskin, spokesman for...

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Police in New Jersey are investigating after heroin was discovered in a kindergarten student's lunchbox in a school in Trenton on Monday. Police were called to the International Academy of Trenton Charter School on Monday. The kindergarten teacher said that she noticed the 5-year-old student playing with what looked like a candy wrapper. When she examined it more closely she saw that it...

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President Obama made the case for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia on Tuesday, praising his former secretary of state's experience while painting Republican Donald Trump as an unqualified fraud. Describing the November election as "a choice about the very meaning of America," Obama said the Republican Party had been preying on fear with a "dark, pessimistic" vision...

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Donald Trump rolled out a plan Tuesday aimed at making child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers childcare. Trump unveiled the proposals in a speech in a politically critical Philadelphia suburb as he tries to build his appeal with more moderate, independent voters - especially women....

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court was inside Philadelphia City Hall on Tuesday morning listening to arguments on the fair education funding lawsuit. Lawyers for the William Penn School District and 6 others as well as the Pennsylvania Department of Education presented arguments. The lawsuit alleges Pennsylvania unfairly allocates state education funds. The Supreme Court has to decide whether...

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President Obama is in Philadelphia today to support Hillary Clinton's campaign for the White House. Detours caused traffic jams all morning even though the schedule speech at Eakins Oval is not scheduled until 1:45.

Ithan Elementary School in Radnor Township went on lockdown this morning after police responded to a bear sighting in the Haymarket Lane area. The Pennsylvania Game...

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President Barack Obama will be in Philadelphia on Tuesday campaigning for Hillary Clinton. The president will be promoting voter registration. President Obama will speak on Eakins Oval in front of the Art Museum at 1:45 p.m., in an event that is free and open to the public. This is the first time Obama will campaign for Clinton on his own - a move that is actually quite rare in presidential...

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A 2-year-old boy was shot and killed this morning inside his home in Bucks County. The incident happened around 11 a.m. on the 2100 block of Kumry Road in Milford Township. The Bucks County District Attorney's Office identified the toddler as Benjamin Austin Smith. He was taken to St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later. He was at home with his...

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September 10/11 - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - Ordinary Normal

1) "Ordinary Day" by Vanessa Carlton
2) "Ordinary Day" by Great Big Sea
3) "Ordinary Miracle" by Sarah McLachlan
4) "I Am So Ordinary" by Paula Cole
5) "Humdrum" by Peter Gabriel
6) "Sedan Delivery" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
7) "Welfare Mothers" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

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