XML Top StoriesKensington warehouse goes ablaze overnightpublished about 9 hours ago
A three-alarm fire severely damaged a warehouse at B St. and Indiana Ave. overnight in the city's Kensington section.
Sandusky Seen Watching Schoolchildren: Prosecutorpublished about 9 hours ago
Pa. prosecutors want Sandusky kept indoors over complaints.
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Obama administration struggles to find strategy to halt Syria violence, see Assad out of power
How videos convinced a jury that Amin Speakes, after 2 years behind bars, was not guilty of murderpublished about 9 hours ago
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Bad news, good news for schools: No big grants, but no big cutspublished about 9 hours ago
GOV. CORBETT'S state budget unveiled yesterday doesn't include a miracle infusion of cash to help the Philadelphia School District out of its financial crisis.
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Summary Box: Nissan quarterly profit rises (AP)published less than 1 hour ago
AP - RISING ABOVE: Nissan's quarterly profit rose 3.2 percent on healthier sales that offset production damage from flooding in Thailand and a battering from ... more
Teen Gets Life For 'Amazing' Murder Of Girlpublished less than 1 hour ago
A US teenager who stabbed, strangled and slit the throat of a young neighbour because she wanted to know what it would feel like has ... more
Summary Box: French strike cancels many flights (AP)published less than 1 hour ago
AP - GROUNDED: Air France canceled up to 40 percent of its long-distance flights Wednesday because of a strike by pilots and other personnel over ... more
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ECB still split on joining Greece debt deal: sources (Reuters)published about 2 hours ago
Reuters - European Central Bank policymakers are still divided on what contribution the ECB could make to a restructuring of Greece's sovereign debt, two euro ... more
Celebrity Real Estate: Anna Kournikova, A-Rodpublished about 3 hours ago
Celebrity real estate from Anna Kournikova, Tom Brady, and other celebrities.
Nello Ferrara, creator of Red Hots, dead at 93published about 4 hours ago
Nello Ferrara, the man who led the company that invented those confectionery classics and others (Lemonheads, Boston Baked Beans, Atomic Fireballs), has died.
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Microsoft to host Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Feb. 29published less than 1 hour ago
The software giant takes another step toward releasing its next computer operating system, holding an event at Mobile World Congress to unveil the Windows 8 ... more
Google Chrome for Android vs. Firefox for Android (ContributorNetwork)published less than 1 hour ago
ContributorNetwork - Some of you might have been wondering: If Google makes the Android operating system and Google makes the Chrome Web browser, why don't ... more
Can Anybody Compete with Netflix? (ContributorNetwork)published less than 1 hour ago
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | This is shaping up to the be the year streaming video becomes ultra-competitive. Netflix is starting to recover after a near ... more
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Every Corner Is Blind for Devoted French Fanpublished about 1 hour ago
Every corner is blind for Charaf-Eddine Ait Taleb.
Openings Expected in Va. Lacrosse Death Trialpublished about 3 hours ago
Opening statements expected in trial of Va. lacrosse player accused of killing ex-girlfriend
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ArtsBeat | The Grammy Awards: Will Sales Translate to Awards for Adele?published about 2 hours ago
On Sunday, we'll see if the Grammy Awards shake out like the 2011 album sales charts - as a race for second behind Adele and ... more
The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Nick Jonaspublished about 2 hours ago
Nick Jonas picks "The Artist" to win, mainly because he thinks that's what the Academy will go with. But he quite likes "Midnight in Paris." ... more
Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Gardenpublished about 2 hours ago
Remedying the calamity that is Penn Station by moving Madison Square Garden to the Javits Center site is a way to bring back light and ... more
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India ministers quit after caught watching porn in parliament (Reuters)published about 6 hours ago
Reuters - Three Indian politicians from a morally conservative party, including a women's affairs minister, resigned on Wednesday after being caught watching pornography on a ... more
German police use Facebook pictures to nab crooks (Reuters)published 1 day ago
Reuters - Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons and hunt out suspected ... more
Mum tells Westwood to say sorry for swearing (Reuters)published 1 day ago
Reuters - Lee Westwood was forced to apologize after his mum caught him swearing on live television at last week's Qatar Masters, the world number ... more
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"Jersey Shore" and "Dora" join Amazon streaming (Reuters)published less than 1 hour ago
Reuters - Amazon further positioned itself against Netflix on Wednesday, announcing a deal with Viacom to make much of its TV programming available for instant ... more
Seven decades of Lucian Freud on show in London (Reuters)published about 1 hour ago
Reuters - Britain's National Portrait Gallery launched a major show of the late figurative painter Lucian Freud's work Wednesday, showcasing the fleshy portraits which made ... more
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Eczema tied to higher impotence risk (Reuters)published about 1 hour ago
Reuters - Men who have the allergic skin condition eczema may have a higher risk of erectile dysfunction than other men, a new study finds.
Get Caffeine Fix With a Deep Breathpublished about 5 hours ago
Quick energy boost just a breath away with inhalable caffeine; critics say fast fix has risks
Breastfeeding Moms Hold Nurse-Inpublished about 9 hours ago
A group of moms protested outside Facebook offices around the world Monday because the social network has repeatedly taken down photos that show mothers breastfeeding ... more
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