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John "Jordan" Lewis, the baby-faced North Philadelphia man whose string of six armed robberies ended with the Halloween 2007 slaying of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy, was found guilty of first-degree murder yesterday by a Philadelphia jury.
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RUMSON, N.J. - When they convene here six months from now for the first Dad Vail Regatta outside Philadelphia in more than half a century, thousands of collegiate rowers on the Navesink River will race past the Salt Creek Grille and take in a view of the splendid Oceanic Bridge and riverfront homes.
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A less-motorized metropolis was the subject of City Council bills yesterday - one to allow human-powered taxis, another seeking strict regulation of the city's estimated 300,000 bicyclists that cycling advocates immediately denounced.
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When 90-year-old Sam Snipes was a boy in the 1920s, Falls Township was a bucolic place with about 2,500 people. Nearly all the land was occupied by farms.
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Two-Face was stoned-faced yesterday as a federal jury in Camden delivered a verdict that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
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Longtime firefighter gets light sentence for two Coatesville arsons
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A former assistant fire chief accused in two Coatesville arsons this year walked into the Chester County Courthouse yesterday in shackles and exited without them, free to go home.
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This time, police - and a pizza shop owner - were ready. A week earlier, a delivery call to an Upper Darby pizzeria had come from a blocked number, and the delivery man was robbed at gunpoint.
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No one thought Luke DeFilippo would come this far. Luke, 7, has a rare brain tumor, gliomatosis cerebri. When doctors diagnosed it in October 2003, they told Rick and Laura DeFilippo of Audubon that their baby had two months to two years left. But Luke has far outlived that grim prognosis.
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A crowd of nearly 100 outside the William Penn Homes in Chester burst into applause yesterday when police announced first-degree murder charges against two young men accused in the death of a woman struck by a stray bullet there.
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About 700 subscribers to the Devon Theater in Northeast Philadelphia, which has canceled its inaugural season, citing a cut in anticipated state funding, have a new alternative for their unused tickets: a theater 27 miles away.
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The Philadelphia Education Fund last night presented its annual Eddy Awards to people and organizations that have helped improve education for youths in the Philadelphia region.
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Adjunct instructors, who say they make up nearly half of Temple University's faculty, called for better pay and working conditions yesterday at a demonstration in front of the campus bell tower near Paley Library.
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Annemarie Jay had kissed hundreds of her first-grade students on the cheek as they said goodbye on the last day of school.
- With medical papers in hand, it agreed the move would benefit Jack McLaughlin, 11.The Downingtown Area School District agreed yesterday to allow a Lionville Middle School sixth grader coping with diabetes to take physical-education classes every day, as his family had requested.
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Weeks before six of its nine members leave office, the Owen J. Roberts School District board has hired a superintendent over the objection of many who wanted the new board to make the decision.
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SEPTA took another step toward restoring rail service to Wawa in Delaware County with approval yesterday of nine property easements necessary for the construction.
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Three men have been indicted on charges of hacking into Comcast's e-mail and voice-mail service for its Internet customers during two days last year, federal prosecutors announced yesterday.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will hold an open house Nov. 30 to update Northeast Philadelphia residents on a project to improve the I-95 interchange at Cottman Avenue.
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Ten arts organizations and programs in Chester and Montgomery Counties will receive $143,485 in state funding, State Sen. Andy Dinniman (D., Chester) announced yesterday.
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A Germantown man who pleaded guilty in July to raping a woman who could not hear or speak was sentenced yesterday to eight to 16 years in prison by a Philadelphia judge.
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ATLANTIC CITY - Gov. Corzine's voice wavered as he choked out the words: "From the bottom of my heart, serving you as a U.S. senator and as governor have been the highest points of my life."
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A 25-year-old man was in critical condition after being shot twice in the head in the city's Olney section last night, police said.
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At age 16, as Daood Gilani, he was taken out of Pakistan, where he attended a military school, and brought to Philadelphia by his mother, a well-known Old City nightspot owner.
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"I apologize, Mrs. Cassidy." With the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy on the witness stand, his admitted killer yesterday stunned the crowded courtroom with a teary, impromptu apology that stopped the trial for five minutes until order was restored.
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