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The Tale of the Mayor and the Heroin Dealer

Some inflammatory testimony came out of an A.C. courtroom yesterday. “[Former Atlantic City prosecutor Ted] Housel believed Mayor Lorenzo Langford may have known about a […]

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Newtown Police Want Penn State Kids to Take Their Cancer-Fighting Fundraiser Elsewhere, Thank You

One of our favorite things in regional media is reading the blotter items from the Newtown Township Police Department. Where else are we going to […]

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Woman Who Enthralled Philadelphia With Her Facebook Photos, Police Chase, Gets Prison Sentence

Remember Shayna Sykes? We’ve included a visual refresher at left if you forgot—she’s the young New Jersey woman who, along with her boyfriend, was accused […]

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The PA Congressmen You Should Blame When the Gov’t Shuts Down

UPDATE: The federal government is shutting down, as the House, Senate and White House were unable to resolve a budget standoff over the president’s healthcare […]

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Totally Harmless Game: Rank Penn Athletes Based on Their Looks!

PartyFunder is a recently launched Philadelphia-based (and probably Penn-based) website which, among other things, allows users to create “comparison games” based on the names and photos […]

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Gettyburg’s Latest Attraction: The Ku Klux Klan!

The Confederate White Knights, a Maryland-based Ku Klux Klan group, has obtained a special permit to hold a demonstration at Gettysburg National Military Park on […]

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A-Rod’s Actual Last Game, Happening Tonight*

Couple non-Philly related baseball items, if you’ll indulge me. One, the Commish is officially resigning after next season. Bud is gone! Long live Bud! Two, […]

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Hugh Douglas Arrested for Attacking Woman; Philly Beginning to Consider Possibility He Is An Awful, Awful Person

Former Eagle Hugh Douglas, fired from ESPN this summer for using a racial slur against a colleague, is in trouble again.  WFSB in Connecticut has […]

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If Somebody’s Attacking a SEPTA Officer, SEPTA Would Like You to Not Ignore That, Please

SEPTA officers are getting grumpy about a spate of recent incidents in which officers have been attacked—and the public has just watched, without intervening or […]

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Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski on Rendell’s Support in Gubernatorial Run: Just Kidding

Friday, Allentown mayor Ed Pawlowski name-dropped Ed Rendell as the host of a Center City party on Thursday night to benefit his ongoing gubernatorial campaign: […]

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WATCH: The Brutal Fight that Broke Out at the Linc Last Night

A fight broke out just under the press box during yesterday’s game. Lesson: Eagles fans, despite gracious cheering of Andy Reid, will never–and probably don’t […]

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Gilberton’s Gun-Loving, Libtard-Hating Police Chief May Lose His Job

Remember this guy? He might be losing his job: A Schuylkill County police chief who posted videos of himself firing guns and swearing onlinewill find […]

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Penn, Temple Students Facing Underage Drinking Crackdown

This maybe isn’t a good time to be an alcohol-loving college student in Philadelphia. First, let’s see what’s going on at Penn: The 2013 Annual […]

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Man Sentenced for Threatening CBS3’s Kate Bilo

The Inquirer reports: A Lansdowne man who threatened over Twitter to rape a television meteorologist and kill her and her child was sentenced Tuesday to […]

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Eight Philadelphia Athletes Who Said “F— You, Fans”

University of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini is under fire this week after a nearly 2-year-old audio recording of him bashing the team’s fans surfaced. […]