Hope Moffett takes on the School District of Philadelphia

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Hope Moffett is not a politician but conducts herself with as much aplomb as an established officeholder.

Adult night out — 2011 Readers’ Choice

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Post-work wind down

A classic chilled lemon margarita with salt sounds good after a long day of work. Afraid you will run a tab and waist your freshly cashed check?

Steak ’Em Up fights lawsuit

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A Lower Moyamensing takeout eatery that was sued by a frozen-steak company for trademark infringement is headed to trial.

Mike Lane, owner of Steak ’Em Up Inc., has been battling The Steak-umm Co., a Reading-based frozen…

Attempted corruptor convicted

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A Whitman woman will spend up to 15 years in prison for attempting to bribe a juror in her boyfriend’s attempted murder trial.

Yolanda Watson, 42, was convicted of aggravated jury tampering — employing force or…

Meet NASA space suit engineer

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“I decided to leave school my last year ’cause I thought I knew everything,” Louis Carfagno said of missing his senior year of high school. Calling from his Houston, Texas, home, the current manager for space suit and tool processing for…

Local vies for Miss Philadelphia crown

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Between attending college and working three jobs, 20-year-old Nicole Cirillo is going to compete in a beauty pageant.

“I don’t know [how I juggle everything]. I have my priorities in order, I guess,”…

Gunned down inside business

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A Southwest man was slain within a Passyunk Square cell phone store Monday evening.

Donnell Neuswan, 21, of Southwest Philadelphia, was inside Cellular Inc., 644 Washington Ave., at 6:59 p.m. when two men entered the…

Hawthorne pair dips into ‘Swan Lake’

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Lauren Fadeley and Francis Veyette, of the 700 block of South Marvine Street, were paired years ago as dancers for the Pennsylvania Ballet. They met, fell in love and were engaged a year ago.

Rango

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Set in a Tex-Mex tumbleweed town in urgent need of a hero to solve its dwindling-resource crisis, the golden CGI nugget “Rango” handily nails western-movie nostalgia and modern-day resonance in one swell swoop.

No escaping blue

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A traffic violation resulted in the arrest of the car’s Point Breeze passenger after he allegedly took the wheel and sped off.

The passenger of a vehicle, whose driver committed a traffic violation, was arrested for fleeing police…