TRENTON - Sen. Stephen Sweeney of Gloucester County will be the top lawmaker in state government after fellow Democrats chose him as Senate president yesterday.
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MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Amid renewed criticism from Gov. Rendell for a five-hour delay in telling emergency officials of a weekend radiation incident, Exelon Corp. said its Three Mile Island nuclear plant was "back to normal" yesterday.
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A January vote for parliament "might slip," Clinton said. That could affect both Iraq's stability and U.S. troop-pullout plans.
BAGHDAD - Iraq's national elections, scheduled for January and vital for the country's stability and for U.S. troop-withdrawal plans, could be delayed for weeks, or even longer, as parliamentary efforts to adopt electoral legislation that would apportion seats among sectarian groups broke down yesterday.
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John "Jordan" Lewis was sentenced to death today for the Oct. 31, 2007, fatal shooting of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy during a doughnut shop robbery in North Philadelphia.
Three Upper Darby boys were seriously injured today when they were struck by a car that veered across three lanes traffic.
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Jake Lewko, a standout senior linebacker at Penn, was named the Ivy League co-player of the year today. The 6-foot-1, 240-pounder shares the honor with Brown senior wideout and return specialist Buddy Farnham.
The Maxwell Football Club announced today that Temple coach Al Golden is one of three finalists for the 2009 George Munger coach of the year award.
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NEW YORK - Three generations of Wyeth artworks are coming to the auction block. They include paintings by N.C. Wyeth, used to illustrate the classic novel Robinson Crusoe.
A Philadelphia-area fund manager is going to prison for 15 years for running a Ponzi scheme that cost investors $35 million.
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