After 20 years, Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' has been dethroned as the Number 1 Christmas song falling to The Shins' cover of Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime." PlayNetwork, a company that works with 400 different brands to build targeted playlists for their stores,...

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Kutztown University has pulled back a plan to bar students from displaying what it called "distasteful" and "demeaning" symbols such as the Confederate flag and swastikas in residence halls and common areas. Kutztown University lawyers asked officials to hold off because of concerns about its constitutionality. Instead, officials vowed to "educate" students and others about "the historical and...

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Authorities say a man was seriously injured after being shot and then crashing his SUV in North Philadelphia. It happened around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Pike Street in the Hunting Park section of the city. Police say a 47-year-old man was shot multiple times near Greene and Manheim Streets, then drove several miles before he crashed his Chevy Blazer...

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Kathryn Knott took the stand in her own defense this morning. She is accused of yelling homophobic slurs and punching one of the victims during a fight last year. She testified that after having dinner at a Center City restaurant with a group of friends they began to walk north on 16th Street. At one point she heard a commotion behind her and ran back and witnessed a scuffle between some...

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This morning the City of Los Angeles canceled school for the day after a credible bomb threat was called in to a School District Board member regarding several of the schools in the district. No individual school was specified. The Superintendent of schools took the action to close all schools while bomb squads scour each school while hundreds of thousands of students stay home.

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Drones are expected to be one of the 'it' tech toys this Christmas. But starting next Monday, there will be new regulations that drone owners will have to follow before flying one - or else risk steep fines and prison time. Many drones aren't toys. According to the Federal Aviation Administration , they're unmanned aircraft systems - and as such, they'll need to be registered. Owners of any...

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Bill Cosby filed suit Monday against seven women who are suing him for defamation. The countersuit filed in U.S. District Court in Springfield, MA, claims the woman have made "malicious, opportunistic, and false and defamatory accusations" of sexual misconduct against him for financial gain. The women claim that Cosby and his representatives defamed them by calling them liars after they...

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December 12/13 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment

1) "California" by Bob Dylan
2) "From a Buick 6 (alternate)" by Bob Dylan
3) "We Can Win" by Rod Stewart
4) "These Days (live)" by Gregg Allman
5) "Good Tidings (alternate)" by Van Morrison
6) "Waiting Tables" by Don Henley
7) "All Our Yesterdays" by Blackmore's Night
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Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry of Alabama and finalists Deshaun Watson of Clemson and Christian McCaffrey of Stanford highlight The Associated Press All-America team. But on the first team AP All America squad is Temple University linebacker, Tyler Matakevich. No. 2 Alabama and No. 18 Baylor have the most players on the first team with three apiece.

A 15-year-old freshman...

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One teen is dead and another was seriously wounded in a shooting in West Philadelphia.
It happened around 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the 500 block of Creighton Street, near Wyaluising Avenue. Officers responded to numerous calls and arrived at the scene where they found a 17-year-old boy in street, shot multiple times in the head and body. A second victim, another 17-year-old boy, was shot...

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