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Huge Tornado Kills 51
MOORE, Okla. - A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 m.p.h. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise. The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in ...
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Pa. Democrats make registration gains in the suburbs
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Future looks grim for Pa. Convention Center
DAVID M. WARREN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center, at a price tag of $780 million, has failed to live up to projected profits and business increases for the city's hospitality ...
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Retirement is going to cost you
WHEN IT COMES to how much money we all need to retire comfortably, it gives us a headache. I just need to say that up front, before telling you about the latest news that is sure to scare you even more about retirement. You probably already know that health care is likely to be among your largest expenses. But how much? In its annual look at medical expenses for retirees, Fidelity Investments ...
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Haddonfields deputy mayor is given top job
Haddonfield has its first new mayor in 12 years. Jeff Kasko, 48, the deputy mayor, who was reelected last week to a second term on the Board of Commissioners, was tapped Monday evening by his fellow commissioners to be mayor, Borough Clerk Deanna Bennett said. Kasko, who will remain director of revenue and finance, takes over the post Letitia "Tish" Colombi is vacating. She decided ...
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Kurt W. Klein claims adjuster and CYO leader
Kurt W. Klein, 51, of Springfield, Delaware County, a claims adjuster and former director for the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Youth Organization Athletic Program, died Wednesday, May 15, at home of complications from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease. Since 1992, Mr. Klein was employed by Professional Insurance Adjusters in Malvern, and before that by Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton. He ...
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Kevin Riordan From a local author adventure story with cinematic sweep
Patti Sheehy remembers thinking, this story has everything: Bravery, romance, suspense, and an evocative historical backdrop. Plus, it was true. She decided the best way to convey the emotions as well as the political ramifications of a young Cuban soldier's daring 1967 escape to America was as a novel. "It was a story that needed to be told, and I wanted to do it justice," says ...
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Ex-housekeeper sentenced in Franklin bust theft
A former house cleaner who stole a rare bust of Benjamin Franklin from a Bryn Mawr house where she once worked was sentenced Monday to six years in prison. U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II also ordered three years of supervised release for Andrea Lawton, 47, of Philadelphia, for taking the 235-year-old bust by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. The bust's owner, lawyer George ...
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Sandy could change Shores demographic face
LAVALLETTE, N.J. - Yes, they were here to show off the rebuilt boardwalk in this picturesque seaside town, with its touching buy-a-board messages such as "This too shall pass" etched into the compressed pine planks. But as much as they were peddling the "Jersey Shore is open" message on this foggy morning, neither Mayor Walter "Wally" LaCicero nor Gov. Christie ...
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A new kind of college signing day
With cheerleaders, mascots, and thunderous applause, thousands of students from Mastery Charter Schools gathered for a giant pep rally Monday, but the event had nothing to do with sports. It was "College Signing Day," held to celebrate the academic success of 450 high school seniors heading off to pursue degrees in higher education. "We believe you will be the ones . . . to ...
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D.A. Complaint against DeCoatsworth was not credible
Richard DeCoatsworth, once hailed as a hero for his actions as a Philadelphia officer, is in jail facing charges of rape and other ...
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Trenton man convicted in Bucks musicians slaying
Jermaine Jackson, the Trenton man accused of masterminding a plot that left Levittown musician Danny DeGennaro dead, was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in Bucks County Court. Jackson, 21, was not accused of shooting DeGennaro, who died from a shotgun blast to the chest in December 2011, but of developing a plan to rob him that turned fatal when two gunmen opened fire after entering ...
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Controller judgeships up for grabs in Phila.
It may come as a surprise to many Pennsylvania voters, but Tuesday is primary election day, with balloting to choose party candidates for judgeships and a variety of local offices throughout the state's 67 counties. In Philadelphia, the marquee race is a three-way contest for city controller between incumbent Alan Butkovitz, who has held the post as the city's financial watchdog the ...
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Judge says shell decide NCAA suit within weeks
HARRISBURG - A federal judge said Monday that she would decide in a few weeks whether to dismiss a lawsuit by Gov. Corbett against the NCAA over sanctions against Pennsylvania State University stemming from the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal. During a two-hour hearing before U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane, a lawyer for the NCAA said the suit had failed to prove there was an antitrust ...
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State mandates residency. There are always exceptions.
For the last two years, the meeting held monthly in a bare Trenton conference room determined the fates of hundreds of New Jersey public employees, including scores of teachers and school administrators. But the process has nothing to do with disciplinary actions or tenure or anything like that. The meetings of the five-member Employee Residency Review Committee are all about where people can ...
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Developer buys Woodcrest Country Club
Cherry Hill's Woodcrest Country Club was auctioned off Monday to a Marlton real estate group that bid $10.1 million for the historic golf course - nearly $4 million more than its appraised value, according to Camden County officials. Cherry Hill Land Associates, a subsidiary of First Montgomery Group, outbid the county and the Union League of Philadelphia, and narrowly defeated George E. ...
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N.J. lawmakers hear sharply different revenue predictions
TRENTON - As the Legislature moves toward adopting a new budget, the Christie administration and a nonpartisan budget analyst offered starkly differing projections Monday of how much revenue the state will take in. The Office of Legislative Services' budget and finance officer, David Rosen, testified before the Senate Budget and Finance Committee that revenue will fall short of Gov. ...
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N.J. bid to tie sales tax to open space preservation
TRENTON - A proposal to let voters decide whether to direct a fraction of sales-tax revenues toward land preservation for the next 30 years cleared another hurdle Monday when a Senate committee signed off on legislation to put the question on the ballot this November. Land-use experts and preservationists were nearly unanimous in their support. Preservation proponents have long sought a stable, ...
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Texans N.J. gun conviction is upheld
TRENTON - A Texas man arrested with 21 guns in his car while passing through New Jersey four years ago will remain in prison after an appeals court on Monday upheld his conviction in a case that could wind up in front of the state Supreme Court. Dustin Reininger is serving a five-year sentence with a three-year minimum before he is eligible for parole. A jury convicted him in absentia in 2010 ...
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Thomas Fitzgerald IRS scandal may give ammunition to conservative groups
It had become fashionable in certain circles to mock tea party activists for their vocal warnings about the abusive power of government, with jokes, for instance, about tinfoil hats. But isn't paranoia useful if someone really is out to get you? That question seems relevant in the wake of reports that the IRS was targeting hundreds of right-leaning groups with tea party or patriot in ...
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Rare peregrine falcons nest in City Hall
ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER A peregrine falcon swoops in to protect its young as Pennsylvania Game Commission employees band the young birds at City Hall yesterday. For a photo slide show of the newborn birds from Alejandro A. Alvarez, visit ...
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Tornado pummels Oklahoma towns leaving dozens dead
THE 200-MPH killer tornado that blasted through the Oklahoma City suburbs yesterday afternoon came with such little warning that grown-ups at two besieged elementary schools flung themselves atop schoolchildren in a frantic bid to shield them from the swirling cloud of twisted metal and splintered wood. "She was on top of me," a sixth-grader named Brady told local TV station KOCO ...
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Ryan Vogelsong suffers broken hand against Nationals
Ryan Vogelsong suffered a broken hand after swinging at an inside pitch that hit him in the knuckles in the fifth inning. (Marcio Jose ...
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City nets more than $1 million in arts grants
SPOTS AROUND the city will soon be livened up with art, thanks to more than $1 million for arts projects coming to Philadelphia. Mayor Nutter announced yesterday that the city won $1.2 million in grants from ArtPlace America for four projects that will enhance public spaces in University City, Frankford and on the Delaware River waterfront. The projects, selected from a pool of more than 1,200 ...
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MJ wants to go back to Hornets
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Philadelphia expands recycling, but not all is well
Philadelphia is expanding the range of recyclable products its accepts in the refuse disposal systems and in effort to increase recycling rates and save money for the city council during current lean times. But, there is a concern among environmentalists that increased recycling may actually have negative side effects.
Recycling across the country is not entirely mainstreamed yet, according to figures from 2007 to 2008 (the most recent available), just 11% of all the USA’s garbage was recycled. Environmentalists point to figures such as these for the reason why landfills are running out, pollution is increasing and the environment is suffering. Read more
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