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News Feed - Southeast PA Print this page SJ teen charged with murdering school sweetheart An Audubon Park woman who allegedly fatally stabbed her high school sweetheart was held on murder charges Tuesday with bail set at $500,000. Area colleges offer GPA-forgiveness programs to lure back dropouts After Paula Arroyo dropped out of college in her second semester a decade ago, she rarely thought about returning. When the economy recently soured, however, and her job as a skin specialist at a spa was threatened, the 30-year-old Haddon Township woman decided to go back to her alma mater, Camden County College. Six elderly people trapped, hurt in SJ van crash PORT REPUBLIC, N.J. - A van carrying six disabled, elderly residents of a group home swerved to avoid a deer, hit a utility pole and overturned this morning on a road at the Shore, officials said. First day of school for thousands in Phila., burbs Mayor Nutter and School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman this morning kicked off the new school year for 163,000 public school students in Philadelphia with a bell-ringing and ribbon-cutting ceremony outside the new Willard School in Kensington. Millions in lottery loot unclaimed in Pa., N.J. Let this be a lesson. Tattle: Scandal brews as retrial in Travolta extortion is nixed WHILE ONE scandal closes for John Travolta, another one tries to inch its way forward. In the closing scandal, a judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges yesterday against Tarino Lightbourne and Pleasant Bridgewater, both accused of trying to extort money from the "Hairspray" star after he chose not to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son, Jett. Ronnie Polaneczky: 'It's all right, buddy, you can sleep' KYLER VANNOCKER died last weekend at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, enveloped in so much love it seemed impossible its power wouldn't pull him through his latest medical crisis. Early signs indicate summer was good to Shore businesses In tourism circles, it's called a "weather trifecta." Starting with Memorial Day, continuing with the Fourth of July, and finishing with yet another four-star weekend of blue skies and low humidity for Labor Day, Cape May County tourism director Diane F. Wieland is ready to proclaim summer 2010 a Shore success. Police: ‘Pantless rapist’ may have fled to Mexico A Mexican sought in the sexual assault of a woman near Police Headquarters eight days ago may have fled to Mexico, police said today. Tolerance toward Islam seems stronger here Islamic leaders acknowledge that this region has so far been spared major incidents like the others, and they say that the overall climate for Muslims here has not been as negative as elsewhere. John H. Estey emerges from the background as a power broker He is a lawyer of choice for those who want to do business with state government. He heads three politically powerful agencies, and sits on the board of another. Nonunion hotels make Philly a tough sell to labor gatherings The Convention Center has been a magnet of labor controversy since it opened in 1994 - from the racial makeup of union construction crews to the failure of management to resolve jurisdictional disputes among the six unions working there. Ackerman focusing on the future in Philadelphia schools THREE YEARS in as head of Philadelphia public schools and Superintendent Arlene Ackerman has the battle scars to show for it. Harry Gross: Escrow deal is perfectly legal Dear Harry: I am really terribly incensed over what is happening with our mortgage. Each month we pay $1,281 to the mortgage company. Of that amount, $468 goes into an escrow account for taxes and insurance. The homeowner's insurance bill comes once a yea Police identify woman killed outside Club Motivation The woman killed early Saturday when a car plowed into a crowd outside a North Philadelphia nightclub has been identified by police as Alisha Moore, 27. Police ID woman who was killed after being run over in North Philadelphia Police identified the woman killed Saturday outside a North Philadelphia bar after an ousted patron plowed her car into a crowd as Alisha Moore. N.E. Phila. slaying victim, 18, identified An 18-year-old man who was shot and killed in Frankford on Sunday was identified today as Nasiyis Malik Ingram. Who'll be watching district officials? SUPERINTENDENT Arlene Ackerman and other school district officials should expect to have extra homework this school year. Education advocates in the city say they plan to keep a close eye on the schools chief and her team this year as they embark on a new year full of challenges and expectations. In Philly, It may be hard times for workers but labor still walks the walk In a show of Labor Day bravado, dock workers on the verge of losing their jobs pitched pineapples into the murky Delaware River yesterday while sporting "Dump Del Monte" T-shirts. With new school year comes the opening of two new Phila. schools The first day of school for 162,000 Philadelphia School District pupils marks the opening of two long-awaited, newly built schools. Western Montgomery County career, tech center goes state of the art A group of Western Montgomery Career and Technology Center students gathered excitedly last week around a new state-of-the art gadget, putting the $27,000 computerized automobile wheel-alignment system through its paces. Does money buy happiness? New research says yes, to a point It is the age-old question, oft asked and answered but never settled, about that liquid asset that consumes so great a portion of human effort. Ducats. Dinero. Dough. Issues confronting many workers swirl through Phila.'s Labor Day picnic Television cameras rolled Monday at the annual Labor Day picnic as hundreds of union longshoremen lobbed Del Monte pineapples into the Delaware River at Penn's Landing, angry at the company's decision to switch its banana-shipping business to a different port, where workers earn less. NJ gov kicks off his 'reform agenda' Gov. Chris Christie is kicking off a series of town halls to unveil his reform agenda. Young college graduates try to help make Camden a better place Drug dealers mistake them for customers. Children ask why they live in the city when they don't have to. Neighbors see them working in the garden and stop and ask why. Weather Service: No rain = increased risk of wild fires There is an increased risk of forest and brush fires in the Philadelphia area because there has been no rain for two weeks, the National Weather Service says. 4 males shot after Logan block party It was a birthday block party with plenty of tunes and eats to go around. The festivities started at 8 a.m. in Logan, on Rockland Street between 7th and 8th, which had been roped off - ironically, it would later turn out - with yellow crime-scene tape. After 12 hours of dancing and celebrating on a beautiful September Sunday, the party ended at 8:30 p.m. Decision to demolish historic school building divides Schuylkill Township officials For years, preservationists trying to save a one-story, stone elementary school building in Chester County had an ally in the township Board of Supervisors. What's hot on campus: Textbook rentals Gregory Dyer, a Villanova senior, stood in an aisle at his campus bookstore searching for his introduction-to-art textbook. He gasped. New, Living With Art would cost the English major $130. Used, it was a mere $97.50. Can new director get PhillyStat to work? PhillyStat has been out of order since July. Have you missed it? Residents may not have noticed that the city's data-collection program, begun with great fanfare by former Managing Director Camille Barnett, has been temporarily shelved by her successor, Richard Negrin. Briefly... CITY/REGION Pair shot in broad daylight Two teens were shot yesterday afternoon while walking in a neighborhood just south of Center City. Kevin Riordan: Camden's Waterfront South Theatre opens Friday with locally written 'Last Rites' If I were telling this tale as a joke, I'd say it's the one about a bar, a priest, and the Last Rites. Annette John-Hall: No more love for the Eagles I'm too old for this. I just am. You know, this relationship thing. Meeting new people. Hoping I like them. Enabling their trifling behavior. Riding the roller coaster of highs and lows. 2010 summer movie season sees faltering ticket sales Outdoors this summer, the sun was hot enough to pop corn. Inside the multiplexes, though, it was noticeably milder, in what industry analysts call a "tepid" season. More Philadelphia-area health systems requiring employees to get flu shots Hospitals in the Main Line Health system could persuade only about 60 percent of staff to get flu shots even though it's obvious such shots could prevent workers from getting sick and spreading it to patients. Longport Bridge beach harbors huge colony of nesting endangered black skimmers EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. - When you drive along the Longport Bridge causeway, you can take notice of the traffic, the bicyclists, the wall of cooler sea air, the waiting Longport speed traps. Daniel Rubin: Shining through the clouds of defeat Even before Brian Allen experienced the lustrous splendor of the Honey Shoe Shine Express, he saw something to admire in Richard Johnson. Pennsauken Mart site risks losing $16.5 million grant Kerry Yobb drives by the old Pennsauken Mart site every day and remembers the good times he shared with his fellow merchants. Fringe mix: From time travel to S. Philly stoops Cecily and Gwendolyn's Paranormal and Quantum Entanglement. Just what is it about our culture on Earth - if it's possible to have a planetary culture - that makes it so, so . . .? Well, you fill in the blank. South Philadelphia High Asian students get safety instruction Many Asian students who walk into South Philadelphia High on Tuesday morning will be carrying something besides books. In pockets and purses, they'll tote a pamphlet called "Staying Safe." It was given to them by community leaders who ran a special orientation aimed at teaching the students an important lesson: what to do if they're attacked at school. Sayonara, shoobies: Locals reclaim the Shore With Hurricane Earl now history at the Jersey Shore, another storm also is winding down. Labor Day ends the frenzied peak tourism season, and locals up and down the coast will tell you it's the moment they've waited for all summer. Police domestic-abuse reports get specific in pilot program For the last month, Philadelphia police officers in three districts have been documenting domestic abuse in a new and unusually detailed way. Councilman wants crackdown on illegal parking lots So many people are operating illegal parking lots in the city that Councilman Jim Kenney wants to bring them under the rule of Philadelphia's most ruthless enforcement agency: the Philadelphia Parking Authority. In Pa., 7 House races to watch Rep. Patrick J. Murphy, a Democrat fighting for his political life in a time of voter discontent, talked jobs, jobs, and jobs as he knocked on doors on a recent evening on Nectar Lane in Falls Township. Successes of Pa.'s subsidized-jobs program On Labor Day, Barbara Izquierdo, 22, will be enjoying a day off from her new job as a case manager and bilingual advocate for Philadelphia's hungry. Labor issues heat up again at Convention Center The rules that govern workers at the Convention Center have long confounded planners wishing to bring their business to Philadelphia. Even those who have learned the byzantine code marvel at what it takes - and what it costs - just to set up and dismantle an exhibit. Democrats mobilize to thwart the GOP 'tsunami' In South Dakota, Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's "Flyover Country" commercial shows the checkerboard plains from a jet window. "They look down from 30,000 feet and don't care about our agriculture, our Second Amendment, or our fiscally conservative values," she says. DRPA donated $775,000 to groups The Delaware River Port Authority has contributed about $775,000 since 2004 to civic and social agencies, often to groups with close ties to DRPA board members and executives. Woman, 20, is killed at a North Philadelphia nightclub A female patron who had been ejected from an after-hours dance club fatally injured a woman early Saturday after plowing her car into a crowd outside the North Philadelphia nightspot, police said. As new year starts, high hopes for Phila.'s Promise Academies For decades, Philadelphia public schools failed to properly educate large numbers of students. Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is betting that come Tuesday, the tide will begin to turn for the 2,700 pupils who will start a new term at six Promise Academies. |
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