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  • Delco shows support for wounded warriors

    UPPER PROVIDENCE - Rose Tree Park was chock full of red, white and blue, along with a generous amount of camouflage, Saturday afternoon as hundreds of people attended the sixth annual Walk for the Wounded. The marquee event of Operation First Response, it seeks to raise funds to help service members wounded in the line of duty to transition back to civilian life more easily."This community, ...

  • Widener says farewell to largest graduating class

    From left are Sean Corcoran, Vinny Miracola and Cortney Potts cheering before the start of commencement exercises as Widener University, Saturday. (Times Staff/JULIA WILKINSON ) CHESTER - Widener University President Dr. James T. Harris III encouraged the graduates of the historic Class of 2013 to remember that their journey was not undertaken alone, but was partnership with their friends, ...

  • Youngster Prospect Park take step to end bullying

    PROSPECT PARK - Thanks to one remarkable little girl, Prospect Park has become one of the first municipalities in the country to become a "bully-free" zone.During its regular business meeting Tuesday night, council passed a resolution declaring the borough a "compassionate borough" and throwing its support behind a 10-year campaign to encourage, support and participate in ...

  • Gov. Tom Corbett gets cool reception at Millersville graduation

    MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Gov. Tom Corbett got a cool reception when he addressed a central Pennsylvania university's graduating class.The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News ...

  • Neumann University grads march toward new horizons

    By LORETTA RODGERSTimes Correspondent@LorettaRodgers1 ASTON - Cheers erupted Saturday as more than 700 Neumann University candidates for doctoral, masters, bachelors and associates degrees marched in procession at the University’s 47th annual commencement ceremony.Following the invocation presented by University Chaplain the Rev. Philip Lowe, honorary degrees were bestowed upon Ulysses ...

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Men in Black 3

Men in Black 3

Although there is no compelling reason for there to be a third Men in Black film (if it is to make up for the lackluster second installment, released way back in 2002, it feels almost embarrassingly overdue), Men in Black 3 does contain the single most impressive specia ... ...

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  • Yeadon woman sentenced for lying to court

    PHILADELPHIA - A Yeadon woman who lied her way out of jail time after an embezzlement conviction several years ago was sentenced to 70 months in a federal prison Thursday for corruptly influencing the administration of justiceThe sentence was substantially longer than what Katherine M. Harrell would potentially have received for the embezzlement had she not lied, authorities noted.In September ...

  • Probe starts after commuter trains collide in Connecticut 60 sent to hospital

    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Officials are describing a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut. They say it's fortunate no one was killed.Seventy people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after the crash, which damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the Northeast Corridor.Gov. Dannel P. ...

  • Break-in suspect Hofstra student victim both killed by police during confrontation

    By FRANK ELTMAN,Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. The two were killed ...

  • Prospect Park becomes one of nation’s first ‘bully-free’ towns

    Hanna Maier accepts a check for $50 in recognition of her anti-bullying efforts from Dr. Claudio V. Cerullo of Teach Anti-Bullying Inc., as her mother Tracy Maier and Prospect Park Mayor Jeffrey Harris look on. PROSPECT PARK - Thanks to one remarkable little girl, the borough has become one of the first municipalities in the country to become a "bully-free" zone.During its regular ...

  • Firefighters rescue woman from house fire in Radnor

    Firefighters battle blaze in house on Miller Street in Radnor Township Friday night. (Special to the Times/Pete Bannan) RADNOR - A woman was rescued from a fire that engulfed a house on the 700 block of Miller Street in the Bryn Mawr section of the township Friday night, authorities said.The first arriving police officer reported fire coming from the rear of the home about 8:15 p.m.. Bryn ...

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