Comcast is making an effort to satisfy its customers. The cable provider says it will hire 5,500 additional customer-service workers in the United States and hundreds of new service technicians, as part of a broad plan to improve its poorly rated service operations. The company has been bashed nationwide by cable and Internet subscribers as unresponsive and rude. CEO Brian Roberts says that the...

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Bricks rained down on a local street when the front of a house collapsed overnight. The row home on the 1400 block of Bouvier Street in Point Breeze was vacant at the time, already in danger of collapsing. The collapse comes on the same day Mayor Nutter, Philadelphia Licenses & Inspections, and the fire department are holding an event to talk about the city's response to dangerous buildings in...

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Singer Miley Cyrus announced the launch of her Happy Hippie Foundation on Tuesday. The 501c3 nonprofit organization was created to "rally young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth and other vulnerable populations." Cyrus will be collaborating with other artists such as Joan Jett, Ariana Grande, Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace and Melanie Safka for "Backyard Sessions"...

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Lynne Abraham, Nelson Diaz, Jim Kenney, Doug Oliver, T. Milton Street and Anthony Hardy Williams.

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Two mothers are facing charges after Philadelphia Police had to rescue two toddlers from a roof in the city's Frankford section. Officers responded to the three-story home on the 4700 block of Leiper Street at about 1:30 p.m. Monday after neighbors called about a child on the roof. They forced their way into the third floor apartment and found a 2-year-old boy out on the roof and a...

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Two former political allies of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie entered not guilty pleas Monday after they were charged for their alleged involvement in politically motivated lane closures of the George Washington Bridge in 2013. Christie's former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, and his former top appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Bill Baroni, entered the pleas in...

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Philadelphia Police are investigating after they say a shot was fired and and a young girl was injured Saturday night in West Philadelphia at 53rd Street and Haverford Avenue. An unsuspecting driver briefly stopped his car to unload something — his three, five, and seven-year-old daughters sitting in the backseat. Police believe the stop at a normally congested area may have triggered...

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Kanye West had previously announced that the follow-up album to 2013's Yeezus would be named So Help Me God. Well, on Saturday he tweeted that he has changed his mind and will now be calling it SWISH. West also tweeted: "It may change again. But that's the name now." He's already released a few tracks from the album including 'All Day' which you can hear below.

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May 2/3 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment

1) "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" by Nellie McKay
2) "If I Needed Someone" by Beatles
3) "If I Needed Someone" by Nellie McKay
4) "Here There & Everywhere" by Emmylou Harris
5) "Banana Boat (Day-O)" by Stan Freberg
6) "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg
7) "Finding Her There" by Boz...

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Three women were found dead after a fire in West Caln Township in Chester County this afternoon. It happened shortly after 12 noon on the 300 block of Hill Road. Two adults and two children escaped the blaze in the double wide trailer home. The house was completely destroyed by the flames. All seven people in the home were family members. Investigators have not determined the cause of the...

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