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Jury Hears About Accused Teacher’s Attempted Suicide

Jurors in Bernard Shero’s case today heard testimony about his attempted suicide in 2011, on the same day he’d been expected to turn himself in […]

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Rapper Meek Mill Files Suit Against Philly Police

Meek Mill is suing Philly police, saying he was unjustly stopped on Halloween Day last year and kept in custody for nine hours. During that […]

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New York Times Examines Philly Unions, Friends Church Arson

This probably won’t do much for the city’s reputation: The New York Times pops up with a look at the union thuggery alleged in the […]

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Penn Professor Who Killed Wife Will Be Paroled

Rafael Robb, the former Penn professor of economics who killed his wife in “a moment of madness,” is set to be paroled. Robb was sentenced […]

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State Rep. Cherelle Parker Found Guilty of DUI

Nearly two years after being pulled over in Germantown for driving the wrong way down a one-way street (symptoms: glassy eyes, trouble standing. Likely culprit: […]

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Free Wingador! Eating Champ Forced Out of Wing Bowl, Faces Trial

Bill “El Wingador” Simmons, the big, bloated, mullet-toting king of the wing, will have to bow out of the event he’s conquered five times already. […]

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Why Jim Thome Might Not Make the Hall of Fame

If you’re a fan of the Phillies—or really, of any other baseball team—you probably love Jim Thome. In this era of widespread cynicism about sports, […]

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Student Stabbed at Middle School in Berks County

One person has been arrested after a student at Wilson Southern Middle School in Berks County was stabbed this morning, AP reports. The incident took […]

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Disgruntled Ex-Employee Launches Vindictive Anti-Butkovitz Website

Hellish Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets “Office Space” revenge fantasy in the latest news to come out of the increasingly contentious battle for City Controller. Already, no […]

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City Council has Secret Slush Fund for “Walking Around” Money

Big city politics and “constituent services” have always gone hand-in-hand: Rather than solve problems on a macro level, elected officials often get stuff done for […]

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Temple #3 “Sugar Daddy” School in the Country

What does that headline mean, you ask? It means a lot of female Temple students are having sex with rich older men (not the other […]

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Buzz Bissinger Recants Support for Lance Armstrong

Buzz Bissinger, the biggest Armstrong fan there was, very loudly renounced his support for the fallen cyclist today in The Daily Beast. You may remember […]

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Disgraced Ex-City Councilman and Wife Sue “Luxury” Drug Rehab

Last week, Lee and Diane Beloff filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Philadelphia against a $45,000-a-month luxury drug detox facility where Diane had been a […]

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Top 10 Professions That Attract Psychopaths

You have to be nuts to make it in media. No, really.

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Man Arrested For Raising Flag on Submerged Roller Coaster

Here’s the cool thing: On Tuesday morning, a Seaside Heights man took his boat out to the roller coaster that got swept to sea last […]