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Is Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown Under Federal Investigation?

Remember the stink surrounding Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown? Earlier this year, we learned that Brown admitted using campaign money to pay off a personal loan […]

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College Students Can’t Stop Making a Federal Case About Sex

Sex on local college campuses sure is getting complicated. First a bunch of women at Swarthmore College decided administrators there weren’t taking sexual assaults on […]

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Delaware Man Throws Semen on Wal-Mart Customer

“Because she was hot,” is no excuse for what you’re about to read, boys and girls. Yet that was the purported excuse of this New […]

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World Comes to Senses as N.J. Nazi Dad Loses Custody of Remaining Child

New Jersey’s favorite Nazi dad Heath Campbell, who’s named all four of his children with Third Reich-inspired names, has been denied custody of the youngest one, […]

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Fumo Family Feud: Vince Fumo Sounds Like A Terrible Father Edition

We’ve got another nominee for “Worst Father in Philadelphia“! In court testimony yesterday at City Hall, Vince Fumo’s own kids laid bare the bitter feud […]

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Marlton Man Pleads Guilty to Ponzi Scheme, Buying Lame Cars

Here’s hoping you didn’t invest with this guy. 43-year-old high school dropout Everett Miller, of Marlton, pled guilty yesterday to a $41.2 million Ponzi Scheme. […]

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Main Line Realtor Fired for (Alleged) Rodent Dumping

Remember that weird story we told you about last week? (Well, one of them.) You know, the one about the realtor couple in Merion who […]

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An Animated Version of 25 Delco Bike Cops Catching Two People in the Act

Remember that time last week when two Upper Darby lovers had sex in broad daylight near a baseball diamond? And were caught in the act […]

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Philadelphia Man on Trial for Lacing Baby’s Milk With Heroin

Orlando Rosado, 45, is currently on trial for putting heroin and methadone into his infant son’s bottle during a 3 a.m. feeding in May 2012. […]

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Former Philly Schools Superintendent Fired in Connecticut

Paul Vallas, the Philadelphia School District’s former superintendent, lost his job as the head of Bridgeport, Conn. schools Friday for what school officials termed a […]

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Police Say XTU Anniversary Concert Saw Fewer Arrests Than Last Year

First the murder rate drop, then the Travel+Leisure snob thing, and now this. Apparently, Philly is losing that chip on its shoulder, and fast. This […]

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New York Judge Tosses Three Lawsuits Against Former Elmo Puppeteer

Three lawsuits from men alleging sexual abuse by former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash have been thrown out by a New York judge. Claiming statute of […]

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Philadelphia Murder Rate Drops to 45-Year Low

Only in Philadelphia would we celebrate 115 recorder murders on record. For the past 10 years or so, we’ve clocked a minimum of 300 murders […]

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Police Issue Citations, Make No Arrests at Recent Marijuana Legalization Protest

The marijuana menace apparently has not yet been eradicated from out fair city. On Sunday, radical group of protestors, united under the “Smoke Down Prohibition” […]

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Main Line Realtors Accused of Planting Dead Animals on Neighbor’s Driveway

Andrea Straub, an agent at Prudential Fox & Roach, along with her fellow realtor husband Jonathan, has been accused by police of depositing a dead snake […]