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  • Skateboarders might find new love at Philly park

    PHILADELPHIA -; Brokenhearted skateboarders long banned from Philadelphia's internationally renowned shredding paradise of Love Park may have a new object of affection: Paine's ...

  • Veterans and Pennsylvanias Criminal Justice System

    PREFACE Asked by veterans from the Vietnam Veterans of America inmate Chapter 466 in Graterford state prison to be the official speaker for their Armed Forces Day event on May 18th, the following was given as a speech. Members of VVA Chapter 466 were in attendance, along with a host of friends and supporters of the chapter, some who are quite conservative veterans. Several Graterford staff and ...

  • Oklahoma tornado damage could cost more than $2 billion

    MOORE, Okla. - The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary official estimate announced Wednesday. State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.Oklahoma Insurance Department spokeswoman Calley Herth told The Associated Press that the early damage tally is based on ...

  • Basements scarce in tornado-prone Okla. city

    It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most ...

  • State Street is jumping Media OKs more events

    By Susan L. SerbinTimes Correspondent MEDIA - Borough Council continues to grapple with the dilemma of the popularity of street events, especially on State Street. The number of such events that generally take place spring through fall continue to grow, and were considered in the context of public safety.Council Member Paul Robinson had three more mass gathering permits in his committee report ...

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The Man Who Wasn't There

Classic film noirthose American crime films made in the darkness of the neurotic postwar years that the French recognized as genius but the homefront could only see as B-movies that weren't well litalmost always centered around an ordinary man who got in over his head. Like shadowy inversions of the American dream, they dolled out poetic justice for everyday Joes who thought they could get ahead ... ...

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  • Others who took the 5th McGwire Abramoff North

    A 15-year-old girl found dead in woods north of Bangor knew the man charged with killing her, her best friend said, contrary to early reports that before her disappearance she'd headed outside her Glenburn ...

  • Witnesses in Md. and region report seeing meteor

    FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - A bright light seen traveling across the sky over the weekend by dozens of witnesses across Maryland and the region is what astronomers are calling a fragmenting meteoric ...

  • Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an ...

  • Reward offered in bald eagle killing

    The Pennsylvania Game Commission and The Humane Society of the United States are offering more than $5,000 for information on whoever fatally shot a bald eagle in western Pennsylvania earlier this ...

  • Emergency responders called to Bentworth High School

    The Observer-Reporter reported that the school was evacuated and students were sent to the elementary school for undisclosed reasons. California Area High School was also evacuated, due to a bomb threat, the newspaper ...

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