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Incapable of resuscitating Atlantic City, Trenton is moving to euthanize it by legalizing casinos in North Jersey. It's a bad move for the state and especially for Atlantic City, whose dire condition...
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View ArticleDalai Lama chosen to receive 2015 Liberty Medal
THE NATIONAL Constitution Center yesterday announced that His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will receive the 2015 Liberty Medal in Philadelphia in October. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader...
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Actress Lindsay Lohan is ready to move past her legal troubles and start a family. The Mean Girls star was officially taken off probation related to a 2012 reckless driving case last month and now...
View ArticleBurlesque star Blaze Starr, 83
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Blaze Starr, a burlesque star and stripper whose affair with a 1950s-era Louisiana governor gained notoriety for both parties, died yesterday at age 83. Starr's nephew, Earsten...
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Her curls, her dress, her jewelry - Rachel Dolezal went to great pains to pull off her race switch, but why? Elizabeth Wellington in Magazine, C1. 0 comments We encourage respectful comments but...
View ArticleClearing the record
A story Monday on Holt Logistics Corp., which runs the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia, mistated the length of the Maersk Wakayama, a ship docked there. It is 176 yards long. 0...
View ArticleMarian Anderson Award Winners
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View ArticleJon Bon Jovi to get Marian Anderson Award
0 comments Travel Deals $1325 & up -- Rome, Florence & Venice 7-Nts. from Philly  See all travel deals » CINDY STANSBURY, Daily News Staff Writer stansbc@phillynews.com, 215-854-5914 Posted:...
View ArticleWynton Marsalis honored for humanitarian work
PHILADELPHIA — Jazz great Wynton Marsalis has been honored with an award named for an opera singer. The Marian...
View ArticleJazz great Wynton Marsalis honored for humanitarian work
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazz great Wynton Marsalis has been honored with an award named for a pioneering opera singer. The Marian...
View ArticleGallery closing to expose commuters to the, gasp, outside
Welcome, rail commuters, to the land of heat, ice, and rain. That is, to the sidewalks, streets, and alleys outside the Gallery shopping mall on Market East. The mall's three-block central corridor,...
View ArticleEx-NAACP leader should admit she lied about being black
ALTHOUGH LIFE isn't always black-and-white, Rachel Dolezal should be ashamed of herself for misrepresenting herself as something other than what she was. Her lie was bound to reveal itself, no matter...
View ArticleStressing experience, Bush enters race
MIAMI - Jeb Bush, son and brother of former presidents, formally launched his campaign for the White House on Monday with a sweeping call to reform Washington and expand economic opportunity. Against a...
View ArticleBill would mandate plans for Bakken, chemical trains
TRENTON - The operators of trains carrying Bakken crude or hazardous chemicals would have to submit contingency plans for disasters under a bill that a New Jersey Senate panel advanced Monday. The...
View Article'Eye in the Sky': Helen Mirren leads an intense war thriller
How many phone calls does it take to justify writing off an innocent young girl in Kenya as a collateral damage in a war on terror? How many government officials need to clear her potential death?...
View Article'Hello, My Name is Doris': Sally Field as older woman falling for a younger man
There are so many moments in Hello, My Name is Doris where I sat thinking, "Why don't I have the pleasure of watching Sally Field do this all the time? Why isn't Sally Field in a movie every year where...
View ArticleRachel Dolezal misled with a carefully chosen look
No one can say Rachel Dolezal didn't understand the power of optics. The white ex-president of the NAACP Spokane chapter who's been pretending to be black for years pulled off her elaborate race ruse...
View ArticleN.J. bills would give Cooper control of Camden's paramedic services
TRENTON - South Jersey Democrats are fast-tracking a bill that would give Cooper University Hospital control over paramedic services in Camden, currently run by a rival hospital, in a move that critics...
View ArticleFailure to give accurate information keeps Tate-Brown tensions alive
NOT SO FAST, commish. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey blamed a rush to provide the public with details for a false report in the controversial police shooting of Brandon Tate-Brown....
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