Monthly Archives: April, 2012

‘Mirror Mirror’ is a pleasant take on an old fairy tale

The Queen (Julia Roberts) is no charter member of the Snow White (Lily Collins) fan club.If the early bird gets the worm, Mirror Mirror hopes...

Police union’s moving its base to Normandy

The Far Northeast is going to be bluer.John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, told members of the Millbrook Civic Association...

‘Hunger Games’ makes softer transition to movie screen

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) fights for survival in “The Hunger Games.”Don’t let the fact that The Hunger Games is marketed toward the same teenybopper crowd...

The families are fired up

Kylie Costello, 3, joins family members at an information rally outside Pathmark, about the working conditions implemented by the comissioner and mayor, Thursday, March...

Holy cow, what have you been smoking?

What you don’t know not only might hurt you, it might get you into a lot of trouble.And you don’t really know about synthetic marijuana....

Chemical used to vandalize cars

Another week, another auto vandalism incident in Northeast Philadelphia.Police say that more than a dozen unattended cars were damaged along the 600 block of...

Cops nab graffiti suspects

No criminal likes being caught red-handed.But in the case of two accused graffiti vandals, red would’ve been preferable to black and gray.That’s because an officer...

Frankford man shot near home

A Frankford man arrived at a neighborhood hospital with critical gunshot wounds following a March 27 shooting in a street near his home.The 33-year-old victim,...

Priests’ trial proving to be complex ‘paper case’

The prosecution of a Roman Catholic cleric accused of enabling child-molesting priests is, in part at least, built on piles of paper — years of memos,...

Bambi goes bye-bye

Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael DeBerardinis on March 30 lifted a temporary curfew for Pennypack Park and other city parks after...
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