Rap’s comeback

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Tone Love was 18 years old when he went from spouting off freestyle rhymes with his friends to part of a rap group — and a movement — that would change music forever.

Finding Sanctuary

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The Annunciation B.V.M. parish community has taken big efforts into a small space to create a haven from the hustle and bustle of urban life with the city’s first rosary-prayer garden.

Left for dead

A teen plunged a kitchen knife into his housemate’s chest last Thursday during a verbal dispute, leaving his friend for dead on a Grays Ferry sidewalk outside their dwelling, police said.

Shortly after 10 p.m. on the 2400 block of Kimball Street, police found 26-year-old Daniel…

Cruelest Cut

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Twelve hours after three cousins were arrested in what police are calling a dogfighting operation…

Baby’s death ruled a homicide

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A 5-month-old, hospitalized since June 25, has died of his injuries turning the case into a homicide.

Shortly after 6:30 p.m., police were called to a home on the 1500 block of South Opal Street for Jahfari Stevens…

‘Idol’ worship

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Traffic clogged Broad Street as fame-seekers, with doting family and friends in tow, filled the…

Killed in Hawthorne

A bicycle lying near a bleeding man were the only remnants of an early Saturday morning homicide in Hawthorne.

Shortly after 6 a.m., motorists flagged down police in the area and alerted them to the victim on the 700 block of South Broad Street near Fitzwater Street…

Scratching the surface

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There are plenty of ways to pass a lazy afternoon at FDR Park, but fishing has been ruled out by some.

Whether coming to bait and tackle, or just to relax, residents are disturbed by the appearance of the park’s lakes, which are…

Stepping into the spotlight

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Reno Regalbuto Jr. didn’t envision his summer including a stop in Tulsa.

However, he recently found himself flying to the western destination with the sole purpose of participating in the American Amateur Baseball…

Unplugged and Down to Earth

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Inspirational words: almost all struggling songwriters yearn to hear them. Then, if all goes well, they will come up with some of their own.

For Marc Silver, the words came two years ago while he was surrounded by the…