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Phillies Minor League Report Cody Asche Darin Ruf Roman Quinn all struggle Saturday night
Special section: Top 25 Phillies prospects Rochester third baseman Ray Olmedo mistakenly threw the ball into center field as he was trying to catch center fielder Jermain Mitchell at second base. Mitchell continued to run and made it all the way to home plate to give Lehigh Valley the lead and eventually the victory. Lehigh Valley held a 2-0 lead heading into the sixth thanks to an RBI double ...
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Burlington County Looking To Make Rt. 130 Safer For Pedestrians
- Burlington County is hoping to make one of its major highways a little safer for pedestrians with a little help from New Jersey. Route 130 cuts a 22.5 mile path through a dozen towns in the county. Police departments will share in a $225,000 grant to provide more patrols along the highway over the next 18 ...
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Villanova Graduates Largest Group Of Female Engineering
– Commencement ceremonies are being held Sunday for Villanova’s graduating class and among them is the university’s largest ever group of female engineering grads. The national average for female engineering grads is 18-percent, but at Villanova, female engineering graduates make up over ...
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$590M-plus Powerball 1 winning ticket sold in Florida
DES MOINES, Iowa – It’s all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials disclosed Sunday. The lone winner was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O’Connell. She told The ...
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Kevin Riordan Theres a new show in town
Inside the former Collingswood Theatre, Tom Marchetty and Josh Longsdorf talk about assembling the cast of their new production. "We've got a photographer, a printmaker, a guy who makes portable power systems, and a woman who's got her own clothing line," Marchetty says. "We're looking for innovators," Longsdorf adds. "People who are passionate about ...
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At Radnor races a jumping good time
Mark McMackin and his wife, Shelley, set up their tailgate party at the Radnor Hunt Races. An estimated 20,000 attended the races Saturday - a day to eat, drink, and make merry in spring finery. "This is one of my favorite days of the year," one attendee said. Story, ...
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Connie Williams 72 East Camden activist
Connie Williams, 72, a community activist who worked with children and police to keep her East Camden neighborhood safe, died early Saturday, May 18, of lung cancer. Ms. Williams ran after-school and summer crime-prevention programs in an effort to keep children active and away from drugs. For the last decade, she had been president of the East Side Civic Association in Camden. "It's ...
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Silicon Valleys unlikely new favorite cause Gov. Christie
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, and Mark Zuckerberg, center, founder and CEO of Facebook listen as N.J. Gov. Chris Christie talks about the states schools, during a press conference at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Zuckerberg is there to talk about his donation of $100 million to help Newark public schools (AP Photo/Rich ...
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Obamas activism is starved for trust
WASHINGTON - Whatever else happens as a result of the multiple controversies that have engulfed the administration, one thing is clear: President Obama has failed to meet one of the most important goals he set out when he was first elected, which was to demonstrate that activist government could also be smart government. Six weeks after winning the presidency in 2008, Obama reflected on the ...
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McGraw delivers brawny two-hour set
Tim McGraw performs during the Two Lanes of Freedom Tour at the Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, May 17, 2013. ( DAVID M WARREN / Staff Photographer ...
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Edward J. Nolen 80 Penn accountant
Edward J. Nolen, 80, of Cape May, a longtime accountant for the University of Pennsylvania, died of kidney failure on Wednesday, May 15, at St. Joseph Villa, a nursing-care facility in Flourtown. Born in Abington, Mr. Nolen graduated from La Salle College High School and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting at what is now La Salle University. A nephew, Jay McCarthy, said Mr. Nolen ...
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Milton N. Kitei 94 a retired family physician
Milton N. Kitei, 94, a retired family physician, died Friday, May 17, of heart failure at his home in Lafayette Hill. Born in Philadelphia, Dr. Kitei graduated from Central High School, where he won oratory contests. He earned his undergraduate degree from St. Joseph's College, now university, and his medical degree in 1944 from Jefferson Medical College. After an internship at Albert ...
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Flower Show lost $1.2 million and leader blames TV
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society usually makes about $1 million in profits from the Philadelphia Flower Show. But not this year. The 2013 show actually fell short about $1.2 million, not an unprecedented event in its 184-year history but a short-term disaster for the many urban "greening" programs it supports. PHS president Drew Becher is now scrambling to cut costs - and to ...
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Montcos Shapiro laying groundwork for statewide run
Josh Shapiro, chairman of the Montgomery County commissioners and a rising Democratic star, will bypass 2014 races for governor and Congress already congested with ambitious pols and instead launch his own political action committee to try to influence campaigns and issues around the state. Keystone Reform, the name of the PAC Shapiro plans to announce Monday, will raise money to fund what he ...
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Its sweet vs. sweet in D.C. fight
WASHINGTON - Even a chocolate bar, it turns out, comes with politics attached. That peanut butter cup tempting you in the checkout aisle or Krimpet calling out from the office vending machine might seem like sweet, simple bliss, but in Washington they are the subject of fierce debate, competing economic studies, lobbying, and media campaigns that could all spill onto the Senate floor this ...
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Phila. controllers race enlivens a sleepy ballot season
For any city controller in Philadelphia there is a conflict between the ideal job specifications and the political reality of getting yourself elected. The public would like to see a snarling watchdog keeping a wary eye over city finances, fearlessly attacking mayors, City Council members, bureaucrats, ward leaders, and union bosses whenever they threaten to tax or spend or waste another penny ...
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Library Company chief plans to retire
John Van Horne, 63, who has presided over the Library Company of Philadelphia during nearly three decades of unprecedented digital change, has announced he will retire in May 2014. When Van Horne arrived in 1985, the Library Company, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, had a Wang word processor. Soon, it acquired a fax machine that used thermal paper. Now the library has created a rich and ...
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Leaking water in subways costs millions in claims
The water is a constant drip, drip, drip, from a leaking, corroding duct at the 8th and Market SEPTA concourse. The constant presence of buckets and wet-floor warning signs beneath a constantly dripping ceiling with a hole in it, by the transit map just outside the Inquirer's concourse-level door. ( MICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer ...
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C. Siegel war pilot Wanamakers executive
Charles Siegel, 89, of Bryn Mawr, a decorated World War II pilot and merchandiser for 32 years with the former John Wanamaker department-store chain, died Thursday, May 16, of advanced age at his home. In April 1956, Mr. Siegel was hired as a buyer by Wanamakers, one of the first department stores in the nation. The chain became Hecht's in 1995 and later was absorbed by Macy's. Mr. ...
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Chase-Riboud returns to Phila. for an exhibit of her art
Barbara Chase-Riboud (center) with Leslie King-Hammond (left) and Lowery Sims, recipients of the James Van Der Zee Award for Lifetime Achievement at a gala at the National Museum of American Jewish History marking the 40th anniversary of the Brandywine ...
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Rutgers pioneer in public-interest law looks back
Eve Biskind Klothen expanded the number of in-house pro bono projects, added external projects, and placed students in public-interest ...
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Edward Bogosian owned Camera Shop of Bryn Mawr
Edward Bogosian, 82, longtime owner of the Camera Shop of Bryn Mawr, died Saturday, May 11, of bone cancer at his home in Villanova. The Camera Shop was established by Sarkis Bogosian, Mr. Bogosian's father, in 1920, making it among the state's oldest family-run camera stores, his family said. The onset of the Internet, the change to digital photography, the prevalence of big-box ...
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Phila. smokers and drinkers get ready for hit
Sue Bartow says she would be unwilling to pay more. The drink tax would begin July 1 and the cigarette tax Jan. 1. Both require approval by City Council and legislation in ...
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Area Votes in Congress
WASHINGTON - Here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress voted on major issues last week: House Dodd-Frank financial rules. Voting 235-161, the House on Friday passed a bill (HR 1062) imposing time-consuming requirements on the Securities and Exchange Commission as it puts the 2010 financial-regulation law known as Dodd-Frank into effect. In part, the bill would require the SEC, an ...
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Norcross group enters bidding for Woodcrest
An investment group led by George E. Norcross III and Ira Lubert announced Saturday it would bid on the bankrupt Woodcrest Country Club, adding a new player to the mix of potential owners of the Cherry Hill golf course. An auction for the club, which filed for bankruptcy last May and did not open this year, is set for Monday. Three other bidders - Camden County, the Union League of ...
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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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