Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Breaking News

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Contractors with the Army Corps of Engineers last month finished pumping more than 1.8 million cubic yards of sand onto the beach in Ocean City, N.J...
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The man who plunged a knife into another man's adomen on Monday was chased down last night by a Bensalem police officer who recognized him from surveilance video, according to court documents.
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More firearms are reported lost or stolen from gun dealers in Pennsylvania than anywhere else in the country. A new report from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol...
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A woman used a young girl she was with to steal the wallet of a customer in a Kensington nail salon and the act was captured by a surveillance camera...
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The smiling face on the T-shirts is Anjeanette Maldonado, frozen in time at 17, with adulthood and her dream of being a commercial artist on the horizon.
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Violence remains a major problem in the Philadelphia public schools, and it's bound to get worse with the layoff of more than 1,200 aides who assist in the cafeterias, playgrounds, and other areas, says the union representing the workers.
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With the 75-year-old record for June rainfall not that far out of reach, the region got another soaking Tuesday afternoon.
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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and 17 other mayors are urging Congress to restrict the use of food stamps to buy soda and other sugary drinks. The...
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PARIS — In 2007, Belgian police were keeping close watch on Malika el-Aroud, a fierce al-Qaida ideologue whose dark eyes smoldered above her veil...
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PA Independent: Pennsylvania’s auditor said that requiring the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to make $450 million annual payments to the state will take an ever increasing toll on taxpayers’ pocketbooks.
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Philadelphia City Council is holding its first public hearing in the building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 others earlier this month.
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Roseline Conteh died doing what she loved: being a mother to everyone. Conteh, 52, was shopping at the Salvation Army thrift shop at 22d and Market Streets for clothes to send home back to Sierra Leone for friends and family who couldn't afford them. The mother of nine died June 5 when the building collapsed.
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Gov. Corbett signed legislation Tuesday that will let crime victims and their families speak directly to members of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole before a decision is made on whether to release a prisoner.
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Communities in the region that now are eligible to install red-light cameras at troubling intersections are proceeding with caution. Gov. Corbett signed a bill in July permitting municipalities with more than 20,000 residents and a state-accredited police agency to install the controversial cameras.
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An Upper Darby woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend had allegedly drugged and raped her while she was unconscious after she found a video he made of the act on her iPhone, police said.
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HARRISBURG – The long-awaited state Senate liquor privatization plan was unveiled Tuesday, leaving lawmakers with less than two weeks to get a...
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An oversight panel six years in the making will hear testimony on Wednesday in another secret proceeding involving the National Security Agency, government...
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Police in southern New Jersey are searching for a suspect after they shot another during a traffic stop.
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Meredith Whitney is the Wall Street analyst -- schooled in New Jersey -- who is credited with as clear a forecast of the 2008 financial crisis as anyone...
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Philanthropic giving is inching its way back up, but the United States has not returned to its prerecession levels of generosity.