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To better inform voters about the candidates in this statewide election, the Pennsylvania Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Commission today issued its ratings and descriptive paragraphs for all appellate judge candidates appearing on the May 21 primary ballots.

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The City of Philadelphia announced that Lawrence J. Nowlan will be the artist to create a statue in honor of Joe Frazier. Mr. Nowlan previously created the Harry Kalas Memorial Statue at Citizens Bank Park. The statue is scheduled to be erected at XFINITY Live! by Spring 2014.

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Multi-Grammy award winning artists Kelly Rowland and The-Dream have teamed up to co-headline The Lights Out Tour. Stopping in major cities across the United States and Canada, which includes New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Toronto and more…

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Congressman Robert A. Brady (D., PA) has requested that U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger conduct an investigation into the arson at Penn Wood High School in Yeadon and a bomb threat phoned in last week to the Cypress Street campus of the William Penn High School.

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Historic Mother Bethel AME Presents “Pearls Of Wisdom” tea this Saturday (5/4) from 1-4pm featuring women aged 9-90. This inter-generational celebration will showcase talent and fashion including fascinators, wide-brimmed hats, pearls & lace gloves.

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Beech Interplex, Inc. is partnering with the Cecil. B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters (Freedom Fighters), Girard College and the Philadelphia Police Department’s 22nd District for a March Against Violence on Saturday, May 4. 

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Reach Communications Specialists , Inc., a former long-time contractor of the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, recently filed a 27-count lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages against City Controller Alan Butkovitz, the Sheriff of Philadelphia, former Acting Sheriff Barbara Deeley…

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State Rep. Cherelle L. Parker, D-Phila., and other members of the state House and Senate Philadelphia delegations, will participate in a local symposium Thursday aimed at public transportation worker and rider safety.

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From 1998 to 2008, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was at war. Like many wars, it was a war over stuff, in this case mineral rights. Neighbors took up arms against each other. Children and farmers were pressed into service to fight.

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Over five weeks of testimony, Philadelphia prosecutors have painted Dr. Kermit Gosnell as an eccentric, detached boss who relied on untrained staff to perform abortions at his outdated, inner-city clinic. But have they proven he murdered a woman and seven babies born alive?

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