US veteran rocker Patti Smith at a recent event in Paris. (Getty Images)
Rocker Patti Smith and Dr. James A. Kutsch, Jr., president of The Seeing Eye, Inc., will receive honorary degrees today at Rowan University's 84th annual undergraduate commencement.
Bryn Mawr, a tired Main Line village where revitalization has been the talk for more than five years, finally has a new look - on paper anyway.
Upper Darby police arrested three men yesterday and are looking for three others who they say kidnapped and beat a local man in an effort to find a big-time drug dealer operating independently of their gang.
This morning's hearing for three shooting suspects - whose beating by police was caught on a helicopter news video - ended in postponement, shouted protests against police brutality, and arrest warrants issued for several missing witnesses.
Weeks after a milk-truck driver opened fire in an Amish school, a state police commander sought an unconventional way to both evoke and transcend the tragedy: a piece of art.
Zimbabwe's electoral commission says a presidential runoff between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be held June 27.
Kevin Ferris: The next president won't just be deciding the fate of the Iraq war, but charting the U.S. military's course on personnel, weapons systems and equipment for the next generation.
A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got a subpoena in the mail requiring his 1-year-old son, Jacy, to appear in Rockingham County General District Court next Tuesday over a $391 chiropractor bill.
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BERKELEY, Calif. - Robert Mondavi, 94, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home yesterday.
Although Internal Affairs investigators said they were making progress in identifying the Philadelphia police officers depicted in a news video kicking and beating three shooting suspects, the criminal probe of those three has developed its own problems.
MISSING WITNESSES. An impromptu protest against police brutality. And a judge's unexplained recusal.
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