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Pennsylvania's retirement system is investigating two Philadelphia charter schools because state records show their chief executive holds two full-time jobs that together pay her more than $331,000 a year.
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Rasheedah Phillips arrived for her first year of law school with three lip piercings, tattoos, clothes from her favorite thrift store, and turquoise hair accented with a splash of purple shaved in the shape of a star.
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It's always a little embarrassing when someone notices that the thing you're treating like trash is actually a treasure. So Philadelphia should be feeling properly chagrined that it took the National Trust for Historic Preservation to point out that the endangered Boyd Theater is an architectural gem worth hanging onto with all our municipal might.
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Sweeping tears and strands of blond hair from her eyes, the girlfriend of a skinhead accused of a 19-year-old racial killing riveted a Common Pleas Court jury yesterday with a tale of a brutal rape, an attempted murder, and a senseless killing.
CITY & REGION COLUMNISTS
Daniel Rubin joined The Inquirer in 1988. His column appears Mondays and Thursdays in Local & Region.
Monica Yant Kinney has been a staff writer at The Inquirer since 1996. She covers local trends and news.
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Changes planned for Ancora Psychiatric Hospital
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Gov. Corzine met with employees at the troubled Ancora Psychiatric Hospital yesterday before announcing a package of reforms being implemented there.
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Two of the most controversial issues in Harrisburg in recent years - gambling and the pay raise - have collided in an explosive lawsuit alleging secretive backroom dealings by the state's former top judge.
- Police took them from the home of a murder suspect. A submachine gun and M1 rifles were among them.Camden police officers have seized dozens of weapons, including a submachine gun and several military rifles, from the dilapidated home of a man charged with killing his neighbor.
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As post-graduate degrees go, Lorna Howley's requires an intimate knowledge of the arcane and mundane. How many people, after all, have to know Ben Franklin's itinerary on the day he arrived in Philadelphia and the closest place to get an authentic Philly cheesesteak?
- It aims to shrink the state workforce by 3,000 workers and save an estimated $130 million the first year.The Corzine administration yesterday unveiled details of a proposal for an early retirement program that aims to shrink the state workforce by 3,000 employees.
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Old munitions buried in sand prompt warning
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Visitors might want to be careful planting that beach umbrella at the southern end of Surf City this summer. Thirteen World War I-era artillery components - boosters and fuses that resemble rusty pipes - were found and removed from the Long Beach Island shoreline after last week's nor'easter, said Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Khaalid Walls.
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When a 911 dispatcher asked a dying Port Richmond man who shot him, the victim was able to gasp, "my nurse," according to documents unsealed in Montgomery County yesterday. Those documents indicate William Fowler, 53, pointed investigators in the direction of Mark Patrick O'Donnell, who is facing an unrelated death-penalty murder trial in Montgomery County Court.
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Ten bucks. That's all the money Rochelle Dabney had to put fuel in the voracious gas tank of her '98 Dodge Stratus, and it had to last through the long holiday weekend.
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With less than two weeks left in the edgy Democratic U.S. Senate primary, U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews has unveiled a television ad that spotlights the age issue in his race against U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
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Racist posters put up in Port Richmond and Northeast Philadelphia were "repugnant," but still legal, the city's Commission on Human Relations said yesterday.
- A disoriented deer smashed its way into a Quakertown hair salon Tuesday, and a customer wrestled with the animal to keep it from ramming into his 11-year-old son or other youngsters.
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What his lawyer calls a "computer glitch" could cost City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
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The assistant administrator of Fair Acres Geriatric Center in Lima has been found to be in violation of the Hatch Act by simultaneously holding an elected office in Upper Darby Township.
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The 78-year-old woman testifying in Common Pleas Court yesterday looked like anyone's grandmother as she told of being raped, stomped and robbed in her own house in the city's Olney section. But she said she never saw her attacker and could not identify him.
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Stretch of Broad St. to be shut for project
- A section of North Broad Street in Center City will be closed for more than a week beginning tomorrow morning to allow for a demolition project in connection with the Convention Center expansion, the city announced yesterday.
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The mortgage and real estate industry's need for speed in processing property records may trump City Council's desire to prevent fraudulently filed deeds, city officials said yesterday.
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Passage of Tibetan 'Freedom Torch' is subdued
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Local Tibetans ran a ceremonial "Freedom Torch" through Philadelphia yesterday, their pace and rhetoric subdued in recognition of the thousands killed in the Sichuan Province earthquake.
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ELIZABETH, N.J. - Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey said yesterday that he owes a quarter-million dollars to his boyfriend but wants to pay child support for the daughter he has with his estranged wife, as well as for his first child.
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Camden yesterday became the first city in New Jersey to sign an agreement with the state public advocate to fight lead poisoning.
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A disabled woman was killed as a blaze ripped through her West Philadelphia apartment late Tuesday night. Doris Davis, 79, was found by firefighters in her second-floor bedroom in a rowhouse near 61st and Ludlow Streets.
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