Princeton University's Angus Deaton has won the Nobel prize in economics for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare." Sixty nine year old Deaton was born in Edinburgh but now works at Princeton in New Jersey and has both U.S. and British citizenship. Deaton's work revolves around three central questions: How do consumers distribute their spending; how much income is spent and saved;...

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Southwest Airlines said hundreds of flights have been delayed by technical issues and warned passengers flying Monday to arrive two hours early and print boarding passes before coming to the airport. The Dallas-based company said it was using back-up systems around the country to check-in travelers lacking printed or mobile boarding passes but technology problems that began Sunday morning were...

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A man died Sunday afternoon in Burlington County, New Jersey after the lawn mower he was riding caught fire. It happened around 2:30 p.m. on the 2220 block of Saylors Road in Jobstown, Springfield Township. The mower somehow caught fire while the 79-year-old Roger Lippincott was riding it. He was killed by flames and smoke trying to put it out. Police are investigating the cause of the...

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A 55-year-old man from Florida was arraigned on Saturday in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Bensalem girl from 31 years ago. George Shaw Jr. was charged with homicide, rape, rape of an unconscious victim, and possession of an instrument of crime for the August 1984 Bucks County crime against Barbara Rowan. Rowan went missing at that time and her body was not discovered until weeks...

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A well-known Philadelphia jazz musician has been arrested for attempting to meet an underage boy he met online for sex. 69-year-old Charles Cohen is charged with Criminal Attempt of Involuntary Deviant Sexual Intercourse with a Child and Unlawful Contact with a Minor among other charges. The Montgomery County District Attorney's office announced the charges today. They said that Cohen...

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A special friend of the iRadioPhilly family needs help. First responder Vince "Lenny" D'Achille a 38-year veteran firefighter and EMT was injured while fighting a fire in early August and was hospitalized due to complications from smoke inhalation.

Lenny is in a difficult situation - a victim a few times here. You see Lenny worked for two fire departments - one full time and one...

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The strike by 65 NBC10 camera operators and broadcast technicians is getting tense. Philadelphia's #2 local news station posted on job sites to hire replacement workers. Meanwhile, IBEW Local 98 has targeted Comcast, which owns NBC10 through its NBCUniversal subsidiary, as a strike tactic. The union has picketed the Comcast Center and posted an inflatable rat outside its doors.

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The Free Library of Philadelphia is holding a block party Saturday in North Philadelphia and it's all about words. The goal is to close the literacy gap between lower income and higher income families. Thirty million words — that's the difference in the vocabulary of a child from higher income versus a child from an economically challenged one. The Free Library’s Words at Play...

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Two Philadelphia men have been arrested for the murder of a Lower Moreland man during a home invasion at the end of September. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman announced today that 20-year-olds Naadir Abdul-Ali and Desmond Smith were arrested last week in the shooting death of 53-year-old Kevin Brown. Brown was the father of Abdul-Ali's 18-year-old former girlfriend....

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A Montgomery County mother has pleaded guilty to injecting her 14-year-old daughter and her daughter's boyfriend with heroin. 36 year old Patricia Davenport of Harleysville entered a guilty plea last week and her trial begins today. Another mom was arrested for a similar crime in Chester County last week. Prosecutors there filed charges in a nearly identical case against Jessica Lynn Riffey of...

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