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MISSING WITNESSES. An impromptu protest against police brutality. And a judge's unexplained recusal.
For a preliminary hearing that got postponed, there was no shortage of news and controversy yesterday surrounding three shooting suspects featured in a videotaped police beating.
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Police union officials are demanding that a judge renounce comments he made last week at a hearing for two robbery defendants, in which he apparently praised them for not using firearms. (defendant pictured)
- 94 WYSP morning host Kidd Chris was fired yesterday over a racist song performed by an in-studio guest in March and aired several more times that month.
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Tension filled the air as Police Officer Dave Klayman moved quietly through the North Philly mom-and-pop shop with his gun drawn.
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Mayor Nutter yesterday appointed Susan Slawson - a police lieutenant who currently runs the Police Athletic League - as the city's recreation commissioner.
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Gerald Klever, the 76-year-old former associate pastor at Springfield's First Presbyterian Church, limped down the center aisle of a packed Delaware County courtroom yesterday, clutching a walking cane in his right hand and searching for a place to sit.
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AFTER THE CALIFORNIA Supreme Court ruled Thursday that "limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional," the path was cleared for gay couples in California to marry legally as soon as early June. And one of the first couples to announce plans to take advantage of it was none other than Portia de Rossi of "Arrested Development" and talk-show maven Ellen DeGeneres.
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The defense team for Wilfredo Santiago suggested to a jury yesterday that a sympathizer of the radical group MOVE killed Police Officer Thomas Trench in 1985 in retaliation for a police bombing on its compound two weeks earlier that killed 11 people.
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Holy smokes! Philadelphia police officers found a staggering stash of marijuana yesterday when they went to investigate a reported burglary in East Germantown.
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Convicted bookmakers Edward "Eddie" Wagner, 41, and Danilo "Danny" Starita, 36, couldn't have been luckier if they hit a longshot at today's Preakness Stakes.
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All across the political and social landscape of our city and country there are calls for unity and dialogue for an end to the violence that blights our world and our neighborhoods.
- 2 wanted in robbery, murder Police yesterday released composite sketches of two men who fatally shot a 28-year-old man in his Oak Lane home shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday.
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BLOGS
In this edition of "So What Happened Was..." Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky talks about a great moneymaking scheme one of her readers had that she has declined to participate in, and explains why.
November 7, 2007
A slide show by Daily News photographers Alejandro A. Alvarez, Jessica Griffin, and David Maialetti.
Daily News photographer Jordan Shayer went out on the streets of Old City Saturday night to see if Philly was hot - or not. And we found plenty of hot.
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