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Lemonade stand contest helps kids focus on business

When life give you lemons, make lemonade and enter your stand into a co ...

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Dollar deals back on at Baltimore Avenue’s Stroll

Bring your umbrellas tonight if you’re heading to Baltimore Avenue for the Dollar Stroll. The Stroll is back and spans about ...

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National Interest

The clock is ticking

It’s shaping up to be another Death Day in Texas, where prospective Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry seems poised to OK ...

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Mt. Airy student’s Shuttle patch to be launched into space

Mt. Airy resident and recent Drexel graduate Jennifer Choy is still having trouble believing that her patch design will be boarding Atlan ...

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Lower Merion supports Pennsylvania’s cell phone driving ban

Lower Merion Township has officially declared its support for the Pennsylvania bill that would ban the use of hand-held phones while driv ...

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New Jersey is nation’s ninth-least obese state

When it comes to obesity, New Jersey fares pretty well in the tri-state area and in the nation. Officially the ninth-least obese state in ...

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Victorino to stop by mayor’s office

Even with a thumb injury, Shane Victorino is a happy camper. The Phillies outfielder is due to swing by Mayor Nutter’s offic ...

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Chester County church remembers Ride the Ducks crash victims

Last year, Marshallton United Methodist Church in Chester County hosted a group of Hungarian tourists. Among them were Dora Schwendtner a ...

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Delaware law professor sues two students and Widener Law

Criminal law professor Larry Connell has added two law students and Widener University Law School to his defamation suit against Widener ...

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Poll finds fewer high school students interested in science careers

About half of high school students aren’t interested in pursuing careers in science, and that number is down 9 percent this year. ...

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39th District: Bar rampage, street shooting leave two dead

Crime Blotter June 24 – 30 FEATURED: June: 26: 4400 block Wayne Ave. – a man was murdere ...

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Philadelphia Soul practicing at Battleship New Jersey

The Philadelphia Soul is practicing on the waterfront today. The Camden waterfront. As it readies for tomorrow’s Military Ap ...

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July 8th-15th Pippi, seashells, and a dance workshop

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Delaware high school students to get an education in sustainable agriculture

Some Delaware high school students will take part in the revitalization of Penn Farm in New Castle.  Trustees of New Castle C ...

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14th District: Three bikes stolen from Mt. Airy bike shop

14th Police District in Philadelphia 43 W. Haines Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144 This district covers Chestnut Hill, Mt. Ai ...

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