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The automakers said they needed $34 billion, and were willing to accept U.S. oversight.
WASHINGTON - Humbled and increasingly desperate as car sales plummet, the heads of Detroit's Big Three automakers said yesterday that they were willing to accept government oversight of their spending in return for $34 billion in government loans to keep them afloat.
The pride of Cardinal O'Hara (from left): Stephanie Holzer, Alysha Womack, Alicia Manning (standing), Danielle Callahan, and Natasha Cloud. Except for Cloud, all of them are seniors at the school in Marple, Delaware County.
Having talent-rich basketball teams is nothing new for Linus McGinty. The veteran coach, entering his 15th season as the boss at perennial power Cardinal O'Hara, has had at least a handful of especially dominant squads.
"We as a community can't keep depending on the cops," said Daeyshah Baines, 17, of the Camden Center for Youth Development, joined by center peers Tamysha Jackson and Jaffar Muhammad.
Wayne Fussell, 11, thinks gangs are Camden's biggest problem. Charles Watkins, 17, believes an inadequate school system hurts the city most. George Jimenez, 12, says simply that Camden has too many "hobos."
With the Capitol in the background, a worker paints part of the inaugural platform as work continues for the Jan. 20 event.
A businessman has rented a D.C. hotel to invite people who would never get such a chance.
WASHINGTON - At the JW Marriott Hotel, $1 million will buy 300 hotel rooms, $200,000 worth of food and private access to a tented, heated balcony overlooking the parade route of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.
A first time German Christmas Village has popped up on the apron on the west side of City Hall, which hosts a farmers market in spring and summer. It's modeled on the traditional Christkindlmarkt.
In the Region Merck outlook misses estimates
Drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. yesterday forecast lower profit and flat revenue in 2009 - far below Wall Street...
Stuff those stockings with small, quirky gifts like these - they're useful too.
- Joy Deangdeelert ChoIn-flight dining
Tree People are planting a new future for Philly
Ask Nykia Perez why she and her friends are running around Kensington planting trees, and her eyes plead, "You're kidding me."
The Flyers, shorthanded because of injuries and illness, collapsed at the finish line last night.
They blew a late one-goal lead and dropped a 3-2 overtime decision to the New Jersey Devils at the Wachovia Center.
Booming Washington Township goes Christmas quaint with a holiday house tour. It's the 21st year, and the pride's growing.
Washington Township grew out of Gloucester County's apple orchards and farm fields - yielding, like so many South Jersey communities, a bounty of subdivisions and shopping centers.
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If her trade as Mistress Jade Vixen, an Ivy Leaguer turned dominatrix, wasn't dark enough, it took a dangerous turn when an ambush by a jealous former flame left her current beau dead.
SOME PEOPLE heed the call.
Others go through the rest of their lives wondering. Navy sophomore offensive tackle Jeff Battipaglia didn't want to be that guy.
Long before the Flyers skated onto the Wachovia Center ice, they were feeling confident about playing New Jersey without Marty Brodeur in net.
Three generations of men named George Wills are now connected to history, courtesy of the People Paper.
Pvt. George Wills fought alongside Sgt. Alvin York in the Oct. 8, 1918, battle that made York a hero of World War I. As legend has it, York single-handedly killed 28 German soldiers and captured 132 others.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - You can say you love him or you can say you hate him. Allen Iverson always says there are about a million of you on each side.
Arunkumar Ingle didn't know he allegedly was being watched by his children, who suspected he lead a double life. They are charged with hacking his e-mail and tracking him via GPS. Ingle was murdered this year.
Amid a packed courtroom, a sea of police officers, many wearing black Narcotics Strike Force jackets or sweaters, heard testimony yesterday of how 16-year-old Andre Butler led police on a high-speed, reckless chase that led to the crash that killed Officer Isabel Nazario.
Elton Brand played his worst game as a 76er, but it turns out he had a good excuse.
The big-ticket free-agent forward looked like he was trying to run on stilts in last night's 114-102 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers at the Wachovia Center, scoring a season-low three points (on 1-for-7 shooting) and grabbing five rebounds in a desultory 25 minutes, 29 seconds. Coach Maurice Cheeks sat Brand down with 4:49 left in the third quarter, with the Sixers down by only nine points, and he did not return.
BOB WINNER, of Bensalem, once tipped the scales at a whopping 487 pounds. In 1996, he began an arduous diet journey, shedding 249 pounds. Today, he proudly maintains a weight of 238.
Tyler Smith had the first triple-double in school history, helping No. 10 Tennessee romp to an 87-69 win over visiting UNC-Ashville last night.
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If her trade as Mistress Jade Vixen, an Ivy Leaguer turned dominatrix, wasn't dark enough, it took a dangerous turn when an ambush by a jealous former flame left her current beau dead.
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