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It only takes a second -- and one bullet -- to alter the course of a life. A straight-A student at St. Joseph's Prep was bound for Harvard before a stray bullet struck...

Saturday is Valentine's Day. Restaurants will be booked, which is why my husband Edward and I rarely dine out on the day dedicated to love. Last week, he told me he wanted to...

Nick Palange had to do a little convincing to win over the woman of his dreams. But 60 years and one daughter later, it all paid off handsomely for the native South...

The students at YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School know a lot about fresh starts. The North Philly school gives former high-school dropouts, ages 18 to 21, a chance to earn a diploma...

One of the neighborhoods south of Washington Avenue has a new civic association -- and by association a new name. The Passyunk Square Civic Association held its first official meeting last...

A proposed municipal program that would provide college scholarships to city children is not fair to thousands of students, according to Councilman-at-Large James Kenney. The budget Mayor John Street will introduce next...

The late Doors leader Jim Morrison sang, "Strange days have found us." The lyric certainly seems to describe the crime streak that has gripped the area in the early weeks of 2004....

Two-hundred dollars to start it. Twohundredoverhere, twohundredisbid. TwohundredIhave, nowtwofiftyin-theback. Three-hundred is your bid, sir. ThreehundredIhave, nowthreefifty? Thank you. Fourhundredbid? FourhundredIhavenowfourfifty? Four-fifty, sir? The auctioneer's words streamed from his mouth in...

Duane Overholt is a pleasant-looking fellow, but just be glad that you probably never met him. While working at auto dealers in Florida, he estimates that he ripped off consumers for about...

The Dreamers NC-17 Starting tomorrow at Ritz theaters Three reels out of four Set in Paris just before the May 1968 student riots, Bernardo Bertolucci's maddeningly imperfect yet fascinating new film, The...