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“Dad, Why Do People Own Guns?”

Days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, I am still shaken as a parent and disheartened as a human being. I walked into […]

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Main Line Women Form Bipartisan Group to Change America

I attended a gathering recently of bright, impassioned women. No, it wasn’t Fifty Shades of Grey book night on the Main Line, but rather a […]

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Pennsylvania’s Fourth Graders Are the Only Group to Increase National Vocabulary Test Scores

Turns out Pennsylvania actually does have something that’s better than in the rest of the country: our fourth graders. That news comes thanks to the […]

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Jezebel Is Surely Coming for This Temple Student

Temple News columnist John Corrigan has come up with a unique way of breaking up with his girlfriend — discussing her menses on the internet: […]

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Parents Are Increasingly Naming Their Kids After Fifty Shades of Grey Characters

It’s official: Fifty Shades of Grey is so successful it has actually effected the next generation of human beings. According to data from BabyCenter, parents […]

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Atlantic City Cops Looking for Escaped 10-Year-Old Prisoner

As far as prison breaks go, they start ’em young in Jersey. Atlantic City police are on the hunt for a 10-year-old prisoner who busted […]

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Northampton Boys Accidentally Took LSD Before Elementary School

Pennsylvania, the land where people leave vials of liquid LSD out in the street for just anyone to come along and sample. Well, that’s at […]

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Overly Literal Teen Robber Literally Shoots Self in Literal Foot

After allegedly robbing a West Chester man early Saturday morning, 17-year-old Jacob Loppe of Pottstown managed to hobble his own getaway with a shotgun spray […]

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Jon Bon Jovi Was in Philly Hours Before Daughter’s Heroin Overdose

Turns out Jon Bon Jovi was in Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon, just hours before his 19-year-old daughter, Stephanie, was arrested for heroin possession at her college in […]

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Teenage Sex Scandal at Main Line High School

Radnor High School Students Investigated for Posting Classmate’s  Sex Video. Sources tell NBC 10 that three boys are being investigated for allegedly posting video of […]

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A Mandatory Civil Draft Could Help America

For many of us, Veterans Day has become a day off from work and an excuse to buy a new mattress.

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Facebook Peer Pressure May Have Doomed the Republicans

Facebook’s intensive Election Day awareness campaign, entirely nonpartisan in intent, may have boosted turnout for the Democrats by encouraging America’s Youth to look up from […]

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11-Year-Old Girl Raises Money for Red Cross With Pop-Up Internet Café

Philly managed to, largely, escape the wrath of Hurricane Sandy with minimal damage and only a day or two of cancellations and issues. In New […]

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Pennsylvania High School Student Protests Grinding Ban

Somewhere, an aging Kevin Bacon is getting ready for his closeup. We’d already told you about plans at Mt. Lebanon High School—way out in Western […]

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Should Autumn Pasquale’s Murder Make Us Reconsider Life Sentences for Teens?

At what point do we show mercy for a murderer? That’s the question at the center of a timely editorial that ran in Monday’s Inquirer. […]