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Feb 17, 2005

Father shot dead, tot wounded

Derek White had just picked up his 4-year-old daughter from a Winton Street daycare center Friday afternoon when bullets struck both of them.

Police say the shooter targeted White, who later died of his injuries. The toddler is recovering from a…

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Feb 3, 2005

Priest killed in car crash

An 83-year-old priest from Darby succumbed to injuries he suffered in a Sunday-afternoon car accident on West Passyunk Avenue, police said.

Monsignor Edward Musial of Villa St. Joseph Parish died at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Hospital of the University of…

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Feb 24, 2005

Fear spreads after flu death

A frantic Cindy Greene emerged from F. Amadee Bregy Elementary School last Thursday with her ill son in tow.

The school had contacted her to tell her that Devonje, 7, was running a fever of nearly 103 degrees. Greene’s next stop was the emergency room.

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Feb 24, 2005

Woman raped at knifepoint

The Police Special Victims Unit is investigating the Feb. 11 knifepoint rape of a woman on the 700 block of South Juniper Street.

The unit’s Capt. John Darby said investigators do not believe there is a connection between this attack and other knifepoint…

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Feb 10, 2005

Voices of experience

When Talib Beattie, aka Dakota Black, was a sophomore at Audenried High, a gang of about 15 teens from Tasker Homes jumped him on his way home from school one afternoon.

Black, now 23, made it home to the 1900 block of Manton Street alive but not unscathed.

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Feb 10, 2005

Cause for alarm

When Stephen Kegler’s wife called to tell him that their daughter’s daycare center was on fire Monday morning, he thought it was a small blaze.

But when he neared Alphabet Academy, 1511 E. Passyunk Ave., he immediately knew that was not the case.

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Feb 24, 2005

Consolation pride

Most athletes wouldn’t be too happy after a 69–48 loss in a Catholic League quarterfinal game.

But Neumann-Goretti’s Shonte Skinner was smiling so much after her team fell to Cardinal O’Hara on Monday night, you’d think she saw the scoreboard in reverse.

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Feb 17, 2005

A place to belong

As long as Edith Brooks obeyed her mother and attended Mass every Sunday, the 16-year-old was free to cut a rug on Sunday nights.

Brooks and her friends went dancing at the O.V. Catto Elks Lodge, one of many all-black dance halls and nightclubs in the late 1930s.

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Feb 24, 2005

Divided byway

Winding along the west bank of the Schuylkill River, West River Drive is one of the most peaceful, scenic thoroughfares in the city.

But it’s been the scene of controversy since Feb. 16, when the Fairmount Park Commission decided to rename the stretch after Dr. Martin Luther…

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Feb 3, 2005

Law targets drinking problems

If you don’t know what a nuisance bar is, you probably don’t have one in your neighborhood.

But in the interest of the many constituents who do, Council President Anna Verna will form a special task force aimed at cracking down on the establishments…

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