Docent, Dave Wetherspoon, waits for his tour group outside the Battleship New Jersey in Camden. The ship got a makeover and visitors will get new views of the ship. (Sharon Gekoski-Kimmel / Inquirer)
Visitors aboard the great warship have seen the awesome 16-inch guns, feared by enemies from World War II through combat actions in Korea, Vietnam and Beirut, Lebanon. But now previously closed areas will be open for all.
Now, get a look at life was like below deck for 55,000 officers and crew.
Now, get a look at life was like below deck for 55,000 officers and crew.
Vistors 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 have been removed from the Long Beach Island shoreline.
The beach is open - it hasn't closed since more than 1,100 munitions were cleared by last Memorial Day weekend.
Suburban residents raised hardly a peep of protest yesterday as the state Gaming Control Board held a hearing on a proposal to place 500 slot machines at the Valley Forge Convention Center.
Three young men shot; three others beaten by Philadelphia police; the scene replayed on national television; the Rev. Al Sharpton in town; four police officers fired.
Timing is everything and 3 a.m. sounded about right. Surely, Mike Kapuscinski thought, he'd be first in line if he arrived 30 hours before tickets went on sale.
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends.
Karen Heller: Perhaps we're more alike than we know, judging from how Americans can come together to aid in a disaster, share the same indignities in air travel, and wonder how it is that Paris Hilton is famous.
The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator.
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DeSean Jackson, the Eagles' marquee draft pick, wants to be that playmaking wideout Eagles fans covet, but he said yesterday he does not want to be T.O. - at least not in the sense of "talking about your teammates.''
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ATLANTA - Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist from south Georgia who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
In 1977, Philadelphia police pounded unarmed motorist William Cradle so hard that their nightsticks snapped.
Frank L. Rizzo, then the mayor, remarked: "It's very easy to break some of those nightsticks nowadays."
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