September 21, 2024
Crime
By Alex Lloyd Gross Motorists in Cherry hill NJ found themselves stuck in traffic today, May 10, 2016. A vehicle plowed into a utility pole just after 5;00 AM on Rt. 70 near Grove Avenue. The pole snapped in half and live wires came down onto the roadway. To add insult to injury, police said…
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Music
By Alex Lloyd Gross Carmine Appice was scheduled to meet his fans and do a book signing at Barnes and Noble in Center City Philadelphia yesterday, May 9 2016. At 7:00 PM he arrives and eschews a seat behind the table set up for him. He would rather stand. He gets right down to business….
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Health
The City of Philadelphia and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) today celebrated the grand opening of its new South Philadelphia Community Health and Literacy Center. The $42.5 million, 96,000-sqaure-foot LEED-certified facility includes a CHOP pediatric primary care center; Philadelphia Department of Public Health community health center; state-of-the-art Free Library of Philadelphia South Philadelphia Library; and…
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Music
By Alex Lloyd Gross There are many KISS tribute bands playing the club circuit and some of them are quite good. Most of them wear make up and have a stage show reminiscent from an era that the band played. Locally there are several. One such band that does things differently is Rock and Roll…
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Higher Ed
By Alex Lloyd Gross The catch phrase of “See something, say something” should only be used by people capable of deciphering what they are seeing. One woman who was a passenger on a Syracuse bound plane saw Guido Menzio sitting next to her doing math problems on paper. The woman became alarmed and notified flight…
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News
By Alex Lloyd Gross Patrick Murphy, a former democratic congressman from the 8th Congressional District and candidate for Attorney General of Pennsylvania was issued a city citation yesterday, May 5 2016 by Philadelphia City Council. He was presented with a copy of the resolution before a council session. Spearheaded by Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, the resolution…
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News
By Alex Lloyd Gross Some jobs require a college degree. Others, well it would be nice to have but one can do the job very nicely without one. Like being a Philadelphia cop. An Associates, Bachelors or Masters Degree is not required to know the bad guy is running down the street and an alley…
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News
By Alex Lloyd Gross Two one vehicle accidents withing hours of each other caused local roads in Bensalem Bucks County to become traffic nightmares for local drivers, yesterday, May 1, 2016. The first crash was on Galloway Road, near Bristol Road. one vehicle went off the road and struck a pole . The driver was…
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News
By Alex Lloyd Gross Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania Primary, and came up huge on Super Tuesday winning Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, but losing Rhode island to Bernie Sanders. Tonight, April 26, 2016, Clinton is well on her way to become the Democratic nominee and should face off against Donald Trump in November. Trump won all…
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