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Dix appeal spotlights two sides of security
They are collateral damage in the war on terrorism - victims they say of an overzealous Justice Department
quotWhat has America becomequot Ferik Duka asked Tuesday as he stood with about two dozen relatives and friends at a protest rally in front of the federal courthouse at Sixth and Market Streets in Center City |
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DRPA donated 775000 to groups
The Delaware River Port Authority has contributed about 775000 since 2004 to civic and social agencies often to groups with close ties to DRPA board members and executives |
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Kevin Riordan Trentons brainy ranking - nothing fishy about it
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Trenton-Ewing ranks fifth among quotAmericas Brainiest Metrosquot up there with Boston and other cosmopolitan citadels of scholarship |
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Whats hot on campus Textbook rentals
Gregory Dyer a Villanova senior stood in an aisle at his campus bookstore searching for his introduction-to-art textbook He gasped New Living With Art would cost the English major 130 Used it was a mere 9750 |
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138th annual festival of beer and bratwurst
The four-story fruit column stood tall the pilsner flowed the bratwurst sizzled the polka dancers polkaed and the wheel of meat spun spun spun |
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Flying monks undersea oddity more
Sanctuary Monks sporting multicolored mohawks dance with fire walk on water and perform aerial acrobatics in the wildly imaginative Cirque du Soleil-ish Sanctuary performed by Brian Sanders company JUNK |
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50 years later Pedro Pans reflect on pivotal Cuba-to-US trip
Maria Josefa Guerra walked to the Pan Am gate amid the hustle and heat of Havanas Jose Marti Airport It was January 1961 The 10-year-old and three of her siblings were flying alone |
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Gambling With the Lives of Children
They prepared for more traffic extra crime and gambling addiction
But officials in Bucks County say that while planning for the 2006 opening of Parx Casino in Bensalem they never anticipated this |
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Labor issues heat up again at Convention Center
The rules that govern workers at the Convention Center have long confounded planners wishing to bring their business to Philadelphia Even those who have learned the byzantine code marvel at what it takes - and what it costs - just to set up and dismantle an exhibit |
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As new year starts high hopes for Philas Promise Academies
For decades Philadelphia public schools failed to properly educate large numbers of students
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is betting that come Tuesday the tide will begin to turn for the 2700 pupils who will start a new term at six Promise Academies |
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Inqlings A second helping of Top Chef
Theres no official word from Bravo but I have it that Jennifer Carroll - chef at 10 Arts in the Ritz-Carlton on Broad Street - is back for more on Top Chef |
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New Jersey schools parents find ways to cope with budget cuts
With the first day of class still weeks away Danielle Bannon and four other mothers from Glassboros J Harvey Rodgers School interrupted their summer for a brainstorming session |
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Monica Yant Kinney Maybe Bensalems Parx Casino should hire babysitters
If I were serious about drafting a plan for life after newspapers Id scout and incorporate strip-mall space near area casinos for a chain of drop-in 247 child-care centers |
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Woman 20 is killed at a North Philadelphia nightclub
A female patron who had been ejected from an after-hours dance club fatally injured a woman early Saturday after plowing her car into a crowd outside the North Philadelphia nightspot police said |
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Philas Promise Academies have a lot riding on them
For decades Philadelphia public schools failed to properly educate large numbers of students
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is betting that come Tuesday the tide will begin to turn for the 2700 pupils who will start a new term at six Promise Academies |
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Harrisburg blundering closer to bankruptcy
HARRISBURG - Only a few years ago it seemed unthinkable that Pennsylvanias capital city could be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy |
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Labor issues mar a great convention city planners say
A year before the National Council of Teachers of English was to host its convention here Jacqui Joseph-Biddle met with officials at the Convention Center to discuss details |
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Democrats mobilize to thwart the GOP tsunami
In South Dakota Democratic Rep Stephanie Herseth Sandlins quotFlyover Countryquot commercial shows the checkerboard plains from a jet window quotThey look down from 30000 feet and dont care about our agriculture our Second Amendment or our fiscally conservative valuesquot she says |
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Cop recants ID in murder case
MURDER CASES can be mysteries
In one case however authorities arent scratching their heads over who did it They believe they have the right man |
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Teen play explores the creative force of flash mobs
To the soaring campy sound of Queens iconic quotFlashquot a dynamic group of teenagers - students actors and artists most from the inner city - bursts running and laughing onto the scene like well a mob |
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0145Sanctuary0146 sets a high bar for festival
Chicken For those of us whove always wondered just what they do for diversion in those confining submarines theater artist Charlotte Ford offers a possibility They spend their days one-upping each other which organically leads to games of chicken |
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Unemployment inched up in August
The nations unemployment rate inched up to 96 percent in August as public and private employers for the third straight month laid off more people than they hired the Department of Labor reported Friday |
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Warrant issued for pantless rapist
The attack was as bold as it was violent A man raped choked and beat a woman across the street from police headquarters |
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Answers elusive in case of Darby man charged in Maryland with fatally running over his mother with van
How could this happen
Thats what the head of the Delaware County Office of Services for the Aging wants to know after Maryland authorities charged Darby Borough oddball Steven Molin with murdering his 85-year-old mother by running her over with his work van - as many as three times |
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Trailblazing Philadelphia cop Carol Keenan dies
Carol Keenan a Goretti girl who became the first female homicide detective in Philadelphia wasnt about to let cancer get in the way of her having a great time with friends and family |
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Men are boosting back-to-school shopping
The back-to-school shopping season is shaping up to be quite virile - in more ways than one
Despite a slow year for retail parents are expected to spend 16 percent more than last year on clothing electronics and supplies for their kindergarten- through-college-age kids |
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Philadelphias Antiques Row in transition
Ted Kirk draws deeply on his cigarette rests his elbows on his splayed knees and takes a long sad look around He is sitting in the once cluttered now scavenged showroom of his brother Jacks antiques shop in Center City Hardly anything is left other than a few cardboard moving boxes a couple of dusty rugs rolled up like stogies and some orphaned leaded glass windows |
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Under scrutiny Phila Housing Authority suspends outside contracts
As federal investigators scrutinize its books and operations the PHA has suspended all contracts with outside consultants and lawyers |
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Earl spares Jersey Shore
Having secured a place in obscurity in local weather lore once-mighty Hurricane Earl now a tropical storm sped toward dissolution in the North Atlantic on Friday leaving in its wake perhaps the most splendid weekend of the summer |
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Sea lion mauls 11-year-old boy at Australian zoo
An 11-year-old boy was recovering Saturday after a sea lion mauled him at a popular Sydney zoos aquarium show as horrified visitors looked on |
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Earl bypasses Jersey Shore drops to tropical storm
Having secured a place in obscurity in local weather lore once-mighty Hurricane Earl now a tropical storm sped toward dissolution in the North Atlantic on Friday leaving in its wake perhaps the most splendid weekend of the summer |
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Atlantic City Expressway plans all-electronic tolling
Most of the full-time toll-takers on the Atlantic City Expressway make 60000 One-third have seen wage increases of at least 30 percent since 2008 despite a steady drop in travelers paying in cash |
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Online support for significant others of military personnel overseas
The first thing Tatiana Simpson did after her boyfriend proposed to her in a phone call from Iraq was to log on to Facebook |
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Forty-two years on a posthumous award for a Pa veteran
Richard Etchberger died in Laos in 1968 saving fellow Americans at a top-secret radar station overrun by North Vietnamese commandos |
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Philadelphia police identify suspect in rape near Eighth and Race Streets
Police on Friday identified a man who allegedly raped a woman near Eighth and Race Streets Sunday night and left his pants at the scene |
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High Holy Days stir the soul to change
CAN PEOPLE change Judaisms response a resounding yes It is this core belief that drives our concept of repentance in the High Holy Days |
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NJ cuts off rapists castration request
A convicted rapist trapped behind bars in New Jersey state prison claims hes also a woman trapped inside the body of a man |
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Man slain in car in S Philly Police are seeking the killers after a shooting death early yesterday in South Philadelphia |
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Solomon Jones Hail Labor Day the rare inexpensive holiday
I LIKE LABOR DAY and thats fitting because Ive labored in nearly every kind of job I worked in an animal research lab and as a police dispatcher in a drug store and as a supermarket cashier in a picture frame factory and as a UPS truck loader I even spent a week fueling airplanes back in the day until I accidentally drove the fuel truck into the wing of a DC-10 |
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PHA to consultants Send us a bill and stop
In a bold move yesterday John Street essentially fired all consultants and law firms that had contracts with the Philadelphia Housing Authority and raked in roughly 40 million since 2007 |
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Son killed mother 85 with van police say
BERLIN Md - Authorities on the Eastern Shore say a man from Delaware County Pa has been charged with murder after he allegedly ran over his mother with a van several times on a rural road |
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Delaware County seeks answers after inmates wrongful release
Yet another mistaken release at the Delaware County prison this week has left officials frustrated wondering how many more prisoners have walked free this year and recognizing there are systemwide problems with the paperwork for inmate releases |
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Clinton warns time short to win peace
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency Friday into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks warning that the negotiations might be quotthe last chance for a very long timequot to reach an agreement |
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PHA suspends contracts with outside consultants
As federal investigators scrutinize the books and operations of the Philadelphia Housing Authority the agency has suspended all contracts with outside consultants and lawyers until further notice |
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Medal of Honor for Pa vet killed in 1968
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Phlyin Flugtag team just cant get a head
A local team had high hopes of flying its gigantic homemade replica of the Phillie Phanatic off a 30-foot platform into the Delaware River turned to heartbreak yesterday when Major League Baseball forbade the flight because of trademark restrictions |
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In Delco how many prisoners have walked free
Another mistaken release at the Delaware County prison this week has left officials frustrated wondering how many more prisoners have walked free this year and recognizing there are system-wide problems with the paperwork for inmate releases |
