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CBP middle pack with media exposure
Citizens Bank Park After six weeks, the Phillies are in the middle of the pack, and their ballpark is as well -if you go by mentions of Citizens Bank Park in the media, according to a study cited by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ballpark ranked 14th out of 19 corporate-sponsored home fields, equating to a media exposure value of almost $5.4 million. Citi Park, home of the New York Mets ...
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Medicine Cabinet Dangers What Every Parent Needs To Know
Some children are better at sharing toys than others, but all children are champs when it comes to sharing germs. Despite your best instructions about not using each other's sippy cups and covering mouths when coughing, all kids come down with colds at one time or another. Bed rest and lots of T.L.C. may be the best medicine you can offer a sick child, but medications will often be reached ...
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NFL approves upgrades to the Linc
Lincoln Financial Field will get a face lift The National Football League approved the Philadelphia Eagles first major renovation plan for Lincoln Financial Field since the stadium opened in 2003, Birds 24/7 reported. The Eagles proposed the changes last June, and according to the Sports Business Journal, they include adding seats and building new field-level suites to generate more revenue from ...
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SEPTA Train Strikes Kills Person
The person was struck by a SEPTA West Trenton Regional Rail train just north of the Philmont station in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. around 7:30 a.m. ...
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Neighbors Kill Zip Line Idea for Fairmount Park
"We look forward to a continued relationship and unified mission to preserve and protect the Crown Jewel of the Philadelphia Park System, Wissahickon Valley ...
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Fantasy Baseball Edge 25 Key Hitting Stats
RotoAnalysis try to bring you a breakdown into a variety of different things each week and they all start from a stat or theory we look at. This week, rather than digging into specific topics, we have a general list of stats and comments that you can use to up your knowledge about specific players and situations around the league. This week we focused on hitters with 25 key stats, and next week ...
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Devin Smeltzer Overcame Cancer To Become A Star
There’s not much you can read anymore with all the sweat stain smudges, but the names remain there scrawled underneath the bill of his cap. It doesn’t matter. It only matters to Devin Smeltzer. He can make them out. They’re indelible. Standing in the outfield, or on the mound, his eyes need only to rise up and see who they are, and what they represent and who he’s ...
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Man sues manufacturer Philadelphia shop over sex gel
PHILADELPHIA-A competitive martial artist is suing a Philadelphia sex shop and the makers of a gel he says burned and scarred his genitals. The Philadelphia Daily News reports ...
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Sheriffs Office Has $14000000 in Unclaimed Funds
It’s been two years since former State Rep. Jewell Williams was elected Philadelphia Sheriff. He took office amid allegations of financial mismanagement and possible fraud surrounding his predecessor, former Sheriff John Green, and the office that he ran for more than two ...
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SEPTA Police Chief Tweets Picture Of Alleged Phone Snatcher
SEPTA police chief Thomas Nestel tweeted this photo with the caption ';Benjamin Teague Junion looking for his next victim. Hey Benji, is that an undercover Transit cop looking at you? #uhoh ...
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Bench Honoring Fallen Firefighter Michael Goodwin Unveiled In South Philadelphia
Family of fallen Philadelphia Fire Captain Michael Goodwin unveil a bench bearing Goodwin’s name at the fire station at 4th and Snyder. (credit: Tim ...
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Family of girl abducted from Philly school to sue
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A lawyer for the family of a 5-year-old girl abducted from her Philadelphia elementary school says the family is planning to sue the ...
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1 Dead 4 Hurt in 4 Shootings in a Matter of 6 Hours
Then, around 1 a.m., a 20-year-old man was shot in the face along the 5500 block of Broomall Street in Southwest Philadelphia. Police on the scene said he was taken to the hospital in critical condition. No one was arrested and police didn’t give a motive for the ...
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Veterans Advisory Commission Holds Resource Fair At City Hall
Philadelphia’s veterans can get information on dozens of services and benefits today at the second annual Veteran’s Resource Fair at City Hall. ';We’re going to have approximately 26 tables where people will be able to come over and get information, get counseling,'; says Darrell Clarke, president of Philadelphia City Council. He says the Council’s Veterans ...
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Isiah Leggett talks Montgomery County nightlife woes
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett addressed the 20-plus-member Nighttime Economy Task Force on Monday at its first-ever meeting in Silver Spring, BethesdaNow.com reported. The task force has six months to come up with solutions to problems that could require major changes in the county's suburban culture to fix, and Leggett said there are ...
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Report Urges End To Automatic Teacher Tenure in Philadelphia Public Schools
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A new study says Philadelphia could do a better job of hiring and evaluating its public school teachers. The report by ...
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Waters loses for Superior Court
HARRISBURG - Allegheny County Court Judge Jack McVay defeated Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Joseph Waters Jr. on Tuesday for the Democratic nomination for a vacant seat on the state Superior Court. McVay, 56, a former pharmacist who is serving his sixth year in the county's Family Court, beat Waters, 60, a retired Philadelphia police captain who is in his fourth year on the bench, in ...
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Bachtle wins in Bucks in top suburban race
Despite a notably low turnout, local government candidates battled it out Tuesday in primaries across the four Pennsylvania suburban counties, with two Republican incumbents in Bucks County facing primary challenges for row offices. The prothonotary's race was the heated contest in Bucks. With more than nine-tenths of voting districts reporting, incumbent Pat Bachtle, elected in 1994 as ...
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Butkovitz wins Phila. Democrats controller race
Alan Butkovitz walking into the Palm in Center City after winning the primary that is likely to give him another term as Philadelphia City Controller. (Yong Kim / Staff ...
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Young Main Line birders land in elite company
For three Main Line high school students, the night was already bad. And it was about to get worse. It was a quarter to midnight. They were standing in a North Jersey swamp, listening to owl calls. In 15 minutes, a rigorous statewide birding competition would begin. They would spend the next 24 hours crisscrossing New Jersey, looking - and listening - for every bird they could find. Suddenly, ...
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Buyers say theyll reopen Woodcrest as golf course
The Marlton real estate group that won the auction for Woodcrest Country Club is planning to reopen the Cherry Hill club as a public golf course, township officials said Tuesday. The Haydingers - principals of First Montgomery Group - contacted Mayor Chuck Cahn on Tuesday and shared their plans for the property, saying "they do not at this point plan to seek a zoning change," township ...
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Translating Tourette into artistry
In the dance lexicon of Sutie Madison, an uncontrollable twitch is a beautiful thing. A flailing arm and jerking head are the equivalent of a graceful pirouette. Dance, for Madison, is an art form whose choreography is based on the symptoms of the Ambler artist's neurological disease. "We take the tics and teach them," Madison, 32, said last week. Since she was 8, the ...
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Commerce Bank founder loses bid to collect exit pay
Commerce Bank founder Vernon Hill 2d's golden parachute deflated Tuesday when a federal jury in Camden determined that it was "legally impossible" for the bank to pay him the $17.2 million he is owed on his employment contract. "It's a disappointment," said Hill's lawyer, Edwin J. Jacobs Jr. of Jacobs & Barbone in Atlantic City. "We are pleased with ...
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Bill of Rights copy from 1789 to go on display here
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Priest accused of violating agreement
HACKENSACK, N.J. - A judge on Tuesday ordered a New Jersey priest held while a grand jury considers whether he violated a legal agreement to stay away from children. The Rev. Michael Fugee, who recently resigned from the Archdiocese of Newark, flouted a 2003 order he reached with the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office that allowed him to return to ministry after being convicted on charges ...
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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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