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Chris DelBrocco has toured the United States through basketball, going as far west as California and as deep south as Florida. One place the guard from 12th and Bigler streets hasn’t played is Europe.
One of two men charged last Friday with killing 18-year-old Hahnemann Hospital parking attendant William Palmer is from South Philly.
Len Ellis, 23, of the 1500 block of South Capitol Street, was charged with murder, robbery, conspiracy…
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The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel opened in 1904. Built in the French Renaissance style, she is now the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue. This magnificent structure — a true pride of the city — is, to many, the “Grand Lady of Broad Street.”
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Tony Greco was surprised when he heard the breaking news.
Staffers of state Sen. Vince Fumo were arrested May 31 during an FBI investigation into the powerful politician, who has kept a stronghold on his local district.
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Lisa Sponheimer is just as active in her daughter’s lives as her girls are in their spare time.
The two — Alexis, 6, and Nina, 7 — have taken baseball, ice-skating, soccer and dance lessons. Their mother tries to intensify…
There isn’t much to say about a 15–0 loss. Girard Academic Music Program softball coach Jann Hoeltzel summed things up the next day with, “It wasn’t pretty.”
The loss came against St. Pius X in the opening round of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association…
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The heat wave arrived with a vengeance last week. The high of 91 degrees during Memorial Day weekend prompted me to pull out recipes for cold soups.
Cold fruit soups became all the rage in the early 1980s — blueberry and…
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Living in South Philly, Marisa Starr gets to enjoy the colorful murals that adorn the walls of her neighborhood whenever she wants. Just one block from her home stands the Frank Sinatra painting at Broad and Wharton streets, one of the city’s…
I receive a lot of angry e-mails. You can tell a lot about where America is at by the angry e-mails you receive. A month ago, my e-mails told me many Americans were upset about the price of gas. They didn’t stop driving, but they wrote a lot of e-mails blaming the oil companies and the…
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Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) is an assistant to the American ambassador to Rome, soon to be the ambassador to London. When his boss is killed in a freak accident, Thorn takes his place.
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In many ways, the Girard Academic Music Program baseball team can look at the 2006 season as a good one.
Here was June 5 and the Pioneers were still playing in a meaningful game. Add that it was an opening-round Pennsylvania Interscholastic…
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The South Philadelphia Strikers boys’ soccer team captured the under-12 division championship at the 40th Annual Philadelphia Youth Soccer Classic over Memorial Day weekend. The Strikers posted a 3–0–1 tournament record, which includes a 7–1 win over the…
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A 22-year-old recovering drug addict from the area of 12th and Wolf streets, who did not want to give her name, knows firsthand the dangers of the street.
By the tender age of 11, she was hooked on Xanax. Two years later, she was hanging…