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ACES Museum honors minority veterans
Sgt. Stephen E. Sherman walked along Germantown Avenue with two pieces of paper clipped to his clothes – they both asked for money. ...
14 years ago
Delaware man killed in tragic bull riding accident
A New Castle man died after he was thrown from a bull during a riding act at a Delaware rodeo Sunday night. Leonel Trejo, 40, had m ...
14 years ago
Pa. congressman bars audio, video at town meetings
Lou Barletta, a Northeastern Pennsylvania congressman, says constituents, but not their cameras or audio recorders, are welcome at his to ...
14 years ago
Raising ‘Old Glory’ at the Betsy Ross House
What better way to commemorate Memorial Day than with the woman who sewed the first stars and stripes on the American flag. WHYY ...
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Bull Riding Accident Kills Delaware man
Delaware State Police are investigating the death of a New Castle man while performing in a Bull Riding act. The man has been iden ...
14 years ago
Girl rescued from near drowning on Schuylkill River
Firefighters rescued a 7-year-old girl from being swept away by the river’s current at the Schuylkill Canal Park in Mont Clare Sund ...
14 years ago
Online hacker group targets PBS
A group of online hackers called The Lulz Boat hacked into PBS servers posting a fake story about the late rapper Tupac Shakur and publis ...
14 years ago
Hard choices for Mayor, Council, and taxpayers
Welcome to the $100 Million Store. If you’re a Philadelphia taxpayer, you walked in here last week, when the school district ...
14 years ago
Tributes and celebrations this Memorial Day
Before firing up the grill this afternoon there are a number of remembrances and services across the Delaware Valley to display your Patr ...
14 years ago
Play inspired by Mumia case has Phila. premiere this week
A play based on Mumia Abu-Jamal and Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner is premiering in the city this week. It is not a dramatiz ...
14 years ago
Washington Crossing veterans cemetery offers a final salute
There’s something eerily familiar about a veterans cemetery. We’ve all seen the endless rows of tombstones, or white markers, ...
14 years ago
Thoughts on a 40th college reunion at Oberlin: What happens when people stop reading newspapers?
Suppose you were invited to a party, with no guarantee that anyone you know was going to be there, but with a guarantee that you would ha ...
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War re-enactors help make past wars a vivid reality
As the temperature approaches 90 degrees at historic Laurel Hill Cemetery on Sunday, re-enactors Joe Lessman and Charles Beale, represent ...
14 years ago
When Melinda Kane’s oldest son Jeremy started talking about joining the Marine Corps, the Cherry Hill resident was upset and worrie ...
14 years ago
Empty words don’t fill classrooms with learning
The kids are our future. If we had a nickel for every time a politician has intoned that cliché, we could close the fisc ...
14 years ago