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  • PSU costs for Sandusky scandal top $44M

    The latest bill from Penn State shows the costs for legal fees, consultants and other services connected to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal topping $44.4 ...

  • Weather service Okla. Tornado was EF5

    Search and rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life in the aftermath of the monster tornado that pulverized a vast swath of Oklahoma City's ...

  • Conn. rail service to return to normal Wednesday

    Metro North railroad employees use heavy equipment to repair tracks near Bridgeport, Conn., Monday, May 20, 2013. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP Photo/Mark ...

  • Oklahoma twister a top-of-the-scale EF-5

    MOORE, Okla. -; The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 ...

  • Committee nears final vote on immigration bill

    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. The panel is aiming to pass the legislation out of committee this ...

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Your Friends & Neighbors

Your Friends & Neighbors

Neil LaBute's "Your Friends & Neighbors" is akin to a sociological cataloging of human misery, cruelty, and sexual dysfunction. Its characters are either inhumane, self-absorbed, insipid, or all of the above. Throughout the film, those personality flaws (which are so immense, the word flaw seems insufficient) come into constant conflict, causing unending misery and pain. Only one character ... ...

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  • Why they voted Delco diehards explain why they went to polls

    District Judge candidate Deanna Krull seated, talks with Nether Providence School Board candidate Kenneth Ezzell while waiting for voters at Putnam Village in Nether Providence. (Times Staff / ERIC HARTLINE) Many registered voters didn’t think Tuesday’s local primary election was a big deal. But for the minority that did turn out to vote, they felt strongly about doing so and ...

  • Upper Darby High student wins scholarship that honors Bailey ONeill

    Upper Darby High School student Corey Crews-Williams, left, accepts scholarship in the name of Bailey O'Neill from Dr. Claudio Cerullo, director of Teach Anti-Bullying Inc. ASTON - Upper Darby High School student Corey Crews-Williams was presented with a $1,000 scholarship Tuesday honoring the late Bailey O’Neill, a Darby Township Elementary School sixth-grader who died earlier this ...

  • Villanova hoops star Jayvaughn Pinkston gets ARD in assault case

    Pinkston, 21, the 6-6, 240-pound forward from Brooklyn, N.Y., appeared in a Montgomery County courtroom on Tuesday to be accepted into a special probationary program in connection with an incident during which he was accused of assaulting another man at a 2010 off-campus party in Upper ...

  • Police Family kept 80 animals in Pa. mobile home

    EPHRATA, Pa. (AP) -- Three people are facing criminal charges after police say they were discovered to be living in a mobile home with an infant, two other people and more than 80 ...

  • Pa. gov seeks to clarify proposed school standards

    HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Gov. Tom Corbett has asked state education officials to clarify that a set of proposed academic achievement standards for Pennsylvania public school students are not uniform national standards, a step a spokesman said Tuesday is designed to respond to criticism of the ...

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