Job Fair Aims To Employ Youth With Troubled Past

Job Fair Aims To Employ Youth With Troubled Past

  

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Roughly 50 to 75 percent of ex-offenders in Philadelphia remain unemployed up to a year after their release. A North Philadelphia non-profit is working with the toughest of the group to employ the youth.
Getting a job is no easy task, but it can be especially hard when you are young and have a troubled past.
“I was a juvenile delinquent, as well as in DHS,” says 21-year-old, Nija Briscoe.

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Penn State Brandywine Campus Begins Construction Of First Dorm

Penn State Brandywine Campus Begins Construction Of First Dorm

  

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Penn State Brandywine kicked off construction of the campus’s first residence hall and a new student union building after a ground breaking ceremony.

 “We are the largest of the Commonwealth University College campuses. We have about 1500 students and we hope to expand that with the student housing, because of course we can get more out of state students, more international students, and more students who want the living experience. Even those who may live right around here in Media Pennsylvania,” said campus Chancellor Kristin Woolever.

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Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dies at 69

Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dies at 69

FILE - In this March 23, 2010 file photo, Academy and Emmy award-winning actress, Patty Duke appears during a news conference at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, Calif. Duke, who won an Oscar as a child at the start of an acting career that continued through her adulthood, died Tuesday, March 29, 2016, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was 69.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Patty Duke, who as a teen won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker," then maintained a long career while battling personal demons, has died at the age of 69.

The actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine, according to her

agent, Mitchell Stubbs. She died in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, where she had lived for the past quarter-century, according to Teri Weigel, the publicist for her son, actor Sean Astin.

Duke astonished audiences as the young deaf-and-blind Keller first on Broadway, then in the acclaimed 1962 film version, appearing in both alongside Anne Bancroft as Helen's teacher, Annie Sullivan (who won an Oscar of her won).

Then in 1963, Duke burst on the TV scene starring in her own sitcom, "The Patty Duke Show," which aired for three seasons. She played dual roles as identical cousins Kathy, "who's lived most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Barclay Square" while (according to the theme song) "Patty's only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights. What a crazy pair!"

In 2015, she would play twin roles again: as a pair of grandmas on an episode of "Liv and Maddie," a series on the Disney Channel.

"We're so grateful to her for living a life that generates that amount of compassion and feeling in others," Astin told The Associated Press in reflecting on the outpouring of sentiment from fans at the news of her death.

She had "really, really suffered" with her illness, Astin added. From late last week until early Tuesday morning, he said, "was a really, really, really hard process. It was hard for her, it was hard for the people who love her to help her...."

But throughout her life, she was "a warrior," he said. "You watch this 4-foot-10, tiny imp of a lady who's more powerful than the greatest military leaders in history."

Born Anna Marie Duke in the New York borough of Queens on Dec. 14, 1946, she had a difficult childhood with abusive parents. By 8 years old she was largely under the control of husband-and-wife talent managers who kept her busy on soap operas and advertising displays.

In the meantime, they supplied her with alcohol and prescription drugs, which accentuated the effects of her undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

In her 1988 memoir, "Call Me Anna," Duke wrote of her condition and the diagnosis she had gotten only six years earlier, and of the subsequent treatment that helped stabilize her life. The book became a 1990 TV film in which she starred, and she became an activist for mental health causes, helping to de-stigmatize bipolar disorder.

With the end of "The Patty Duke Show" in 1966, which left her stereotyped as not one, but two squeaky-clean teenagers, Duke attempted to leap into the nitty-grittiness of adulthood in the 1967 melodrama "Valley of the Dolls," in which she played a showbiz hopeful who falls prey to drug addiction, a broken marriage and shattered dreams.

The film, based on the best-selling Jacqueline Susann pulp novel, was critically slammed but a commercial sensation.

During her career she would win three Emmy Awards, for the TV film "My Sweet Charlie," the miniseries "Captains and the Kings" and the 1979 TV remake of "The Miracle Worker," in which Duke played Annie Sullivan with "Little House on the Prairie" actress Melissa Gilbert as Keller.

"I know she's in a better place. I will miss her every day but I will find comfort in the words of Helen Keller: 'The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart,'" Gilbert wrote in tribute.

In the 1980s, she starred in a trio of short-lived sitcoms: "It Takes Two," ''Karen's Song" and "Hail to the Chief," cast as the first female president of the United States.

"Her career ebbed and flowed," said Sean Astin, her son with her third husband, actor John Astin, "and sometimes she was stressed about it and sometimes she was at peace with it. And then she'd get to do something that she could sink her teeth into, that reminded her of what she was capable of."

In addition to her acting career, Duke served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 to 1988.

She starred in several stage productions, including a return to Broadway in 2002 to play Aunt Eller in a revival of the musical "Oklahoma!"

By then, she already had spent a dozen years living in Idaho with her fourth husband, Michael Pearce (who survives her), seeking refuge from the clutter, noise and turmoil of big cities, and from the tumultuous life she had weathered in the past.

In describing the role of Aunt Eller, and perhaps herself, to The Associated Press, she said, "This is a woman who has had strife in life, made her peace with some of it and has come to the point of acceptance. Not giving up."

Ireland recalls 1916 Easter Rising against British rule

Ireland recalls 1916 Easter Rising against British rule
 

Thousands of soldiers march solemnly through the streets of Dublin, Ireland, Sunday, March 27, 2016. Thousands of soldiers marched solemnly Sunday through the crowded streets of Dublin to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising against Britain, a fateful rebellion that reduced parts of the capital to ruins and inspired the country's eventual independence.

  

DUBLIN (AP) -- Thousands of soldiers marched solemnly through the crowded streets of Dublin on Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising against Britain, a fateful rebellion that reduced parts of the capital to ruins and fired the country's flame of independence.

The Easter parade through Dublin featured military ceremonies at key buildings seized in 1916, when about 1,200 rebels sought to ignite a popular revolt against Ireland's place in the United Kingdom.

The five-hour procession paused at noon outside the colonnaded General Post Office on O'Connell Street, the rebel headquarters a century ago, where commander Padraig Pearse formally launched the revolt by proclaiming to bemused Dubliners the creation of a "provisional" Republic of Ireland.

A soldier in today's Irish Defence Forces, Capt. Peter Kelleher, stood in front of the restored post office Sunday to read the full, florid text of Pearse's 1916 proclamation.

"In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom," Kelleher said to an audience that included Ireland's leaders and scores of grandchildren of the rebels.

Many donned their ancestors' Easter Rising bronze service medals, which Ireland issued in 1941 on the rebellion's 25th anniversary.

British forces, among them many Irishmen focused on fighting Germany in World War I, were caught off guard by the seizure of largely unguarded buildings in 1916. Most officers were attending horse races in the Irish countryside. But Britain quickly deployed army reinforcements who were cheered by some locals as they marched into Dublin. Artillery based at Trinity College and a gunboat on the River Liffey which bisects the city shelled the post office and other rebel strongholds, forcing their surrender within six days.

The fighting left nearly 500 dead, most of them civilians caught in the crossfire or shot - by both sides - as suspected looters. Some 126 British soldiers, 82 rebels and 17 police were slain.

Many Dubliners opposed the insurrection as an act of treason in a time of war, but public sentiment swiftly swung in the rebels' favor once a newly arrived British Army commander decided to execute Pearse and 14 other rebel leaders by firing squad in Dublin's Kilmainham Jail.

A 16th figure, Roger Casement, who days before the Easter Rising was caught trying to smuggle German weapons by sea to Ireland, was hanged inside a London prison.

In the rebellion's immediate wake, the poet W.B. Yeats reflected Ireland's conflicted feelings about how violent nationalism appeared to be hastening Ireland's journey to political freedom but at a debatable cost. 

His "Easter, 1916" poem, among the most quoted works in all of Irish literature, listed the names of executed Rising commanders and concluded that Ireland had "changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born."

Easter Rising veterans led Ireland's 1919-21 war of independence, their ranks swelled by combat veterans returning to Ireland from World War I trenches. As the newly founded Irish Republican Army fought police and soldiers in the predominantly Catholic south, Protestants in northeast Ireland carved out a new U.K.-linked state of Northern Ireland.

A treaty accepted by most southern rebels established an Irish Free State in 1922 that grudgingly accepted the reality of the island's partition. The new Irish state survived a fratricidal 1922-23 civil war between IRA factions. Michael Collins' pro-treaty forces crushed IRA die-hards who, backed by Eamon de Valera, rejected the treaty because the new state was not fully independent of Britain. Both men had fought in the 1916 Rising.

Ireland remained neutral in World War II and declared itself a republic on Easter Monday 1949.

Ireland long has struggled to embrace Easter as its effective independence day, in part because the enemy camps from the Irish civil war forged the country's two dominant political parties: Fine Gael by allies of the slain IRA leader Collins; and de Valera's Fianna Fail party. Both parties claim to be the true defenders of the 1916 rebels' ideals.

Official unease with 1916's disputed legacy grew from the early 1970s as a new Belfast-based IRA launched a ruthless campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the U.K. and into the republic. This outlawed faction called itself the Provisional IRA and killed nearly 1,800 people before calling a 1997 cease-fire to support leaders of its revived Sinn Fein party, who today help govern Northern Ireland alongside British Protestant politicians.

In a sign of changing times, leaders of Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein stood side by side at Sunday's events, including a ceremony inside Kilmainham Jail, where Pearse and other commanders were executed.

Sunday's commemorations are the centerpiece of an estimated 2,500 events nationwide this spring and summer reflecting on the uprising's legacy.

The anniversary date is imprecise, given that Easter falls on different dates each year and the 1916 rebellion actually started on Easter Monday - an official holiday in Ireland - not on the Sunday. The rebellion began April 24 and ended on April 29, 1916. The executions began four days later.

Villanova, All 4 No. 1 Seeds Still In Title Hunt In NCAA Tournament March 26, 2016 10:22 AM

Villanova, All 4 No. 1 Seeds Still In Title Hunt In NCAA Tournament

 

    

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 18: Jalen Brunson #1 and Ryan 

Arcidiacono #15 of the Villanova Wildcats celebrate defeating 

UNC Asheville Bulldogs 86 to 56 during the first round of the 

2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Barclays Center 

on March 18, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

  The final answer of the NCAA Tournament is still a March mystery.

But in the Elite Eight, the answer is much more translucent — each region is represented by the No. 1 seed for the first time since 2009.

The underdogs stole the spotlight early in the tourney. This weekend, make way for the top dogs.

North Carolina, Virginia, Kansas and Oregon have all flexed their collective top-seeded muscle with dominant victories that not only flaunted their superiority so far, but showed an all-No. 1 Final Four is a legitimate possibility in Texas.

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Faithful In Philadelphia Celebrate Easter Sunday; Share Family Traditions

Faithful In Philadelphia Celebrate Easter Sunday; Share Family Traditions

  

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Easter Sunday is the celebration of life, a day when Christians around the world observe the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. But it’s also a day to treasure family and friends.

Both were evident at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church In Mount Airy where the party began with a sunrise service. Parishioners started taking their seats before 5:30 a.m. — but the celebration on Resurrection Sunday wasn’t going to stop after the service ended.

Many people have their own traditions.

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Philly Christian Group Uses Easter As Chance To Feed Less Fortunate

Philly Christian Group Uses Easter As Chance To Feed Less Fortunate

  

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — As many Christians around the Delaware Valley sit down to a festive Easter dinner, one local group is making sure there is a place at the holiday table for some of those in need.

Reverend Brian Jenkins with Chosen 300 Ministries says it’s their mission to serve the homeless and less fortunate through out the year, but on Easter Sunday they try even harder to follow Christ’s mission.

“He came to preach the gospel to the poor, and often times those are the ones that are pushed aside, not welcome, and especially on a Sunday like this when everybody comes in their Sunday best, this is a place where they can come just as they are,” he said.

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South Jersey Man Remembers Friend Lost During Brussels Attacks

South Jersey Man Remembers Friend Lost During Brussels Attacks

MOORESTOWN, N.J., (CBS) — Through the explosions that rocked Brussels, halfway across the word the aftermath remains.

“It’s pretty crazy. You never think you’re going to know someone involved in that kind of thing and then you hear from someone else and you hope that everything works out,” said Adam Nachmias.

Moorestown native Alexander Pinczowski was Nachmias’ friend. Friday, the family of Alexander, and his sister Sascha, confirmed the two were among the 31 dead from the Isis claimed attacks. The two were Dutch, but lived in New York.

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Historic Philadelphia Playhouse Closes Permanently Next Week

Historic Philadelphia Playhouse Closes Permanently Next Week

  

Society Hill Playhouse is closing for good next week.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – After more than 50 years, one of Philadelphia’s first community playhouses is closing its doors for good.

The walls of the Society Hill Playhouse at 8th and South Streets are covered in nostalgic evidence of the decades of productions that graced its stage.

“When we started there were no theaters like this,” says Deen Cogan, director of the playhouse.
She and her late husband, Jay, founded the playhouse in 1959. The curtains opened in 1960 and since then the stage has hosted hundreds of plays like “The Blacks” and “School House Rock.”

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Philadelphia Won’t Be Cleveland, But DNC Security Will Be Comparable

Philadelphia Won’t Be Cleveland, But DNC Security Will Be Comparable

  

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Cleveland is gearing up for possible turmoil when it hosts the Republican National Convention this summer. Philadelphia’s job of hosting the Democrats seems easy by comparison, but the same security precautions are being taken in the city.

Philadelphia should be very safe in July when delegates come in from around the country for the Democratic National Convention. In an update by the host committee, special advisor David Cohen said both conventions are national security special events, so they both get the same federal protection — though he hastened to add it won’t be anything like the visit of Pope Francis.

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Public Hearing Held To Ensure Philadelphia Has Safe Drinking Water

Public Hearing Held To Ensure Philadelphia Has Safe Drinking Water

   
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –– The water crisis in Flint, MI is raising concerns about the safety of Philadelphia’s drinking water.

The City Council held a public hearing Monday to discuss best practices for the water department.

The council took no action, but Councilwoman At-Large Helen Gym called the hearing to explore if the water department and city government can do more to ensure that Philadelphians have the safest drinking water possible.

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Thousands Of Teenage Girls Bring Their Aces To PA Convention Center

Thousands Of Teenage Girls Bring Their Aces To PA Convention Center

  

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Thousands of teenage girls from all over the country are in Philadelphia for a qualifying volleyball tournament.

The sound of more than 470 teams playing volleyball on 68 court inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center was deafening. Madison from Texas was hopeful that the trip would end well for her and her team.
 
“We started at 8 this morning, we did good the first game, but our second game we kinda didn’t do as good, I have a good feeling about the next game,” the Texas volleyball player said.
Jordan from Virginia Beach was doing better.

“We are 3 and 0, I think we’re gonna do great and win all of our games,” Jordan said.
Her teammate, Alyssa said win or lose, it’s a great time.

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The Latest: Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115M in Gawker lawsuit

The Latest: Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115M in Gawker lawsuit
  

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- The Latest on the trial of wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against the New York-based website Gawker (all times local):

7 p.m.:

A jury has sided with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and awarded him $115 million in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media.

The jurors reached the decision Friday evening, less than six hours after they began deliberations. The trial lasted two weeks.

Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, sued Gawker for $100 million for posting a video in 2012 of him having sex with his former best friend's wife. Hogan contended it was a violation of his privacy.

Gawker's editors contended the video and an accompanying post was a newsworthy commentary on the ordinariness of celebrity sex videos.

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1:05 p.m.:

Jurors have begun deliberating in the civil trial of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker media over a sex video.

Lawyers for both Hogan and Gawker gave closing arguments on Friday morning.

Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, is suing Gawker for $100 million for posting a video in 2012 of him having sex with his former best friend's wife. Hogan contends it was a violation of his privacy.

Gawker's editors contend the video and an accompanying post was a newsworthy commentary on the ordinariness of celebrity sex videos.

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11:15 a.m.:

Lawyers for Gawker Media have started their closing arguments in the civil trial of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker media over a sex video.

Gawker's attorneys told the jury that the video is "not like a real celebrity sex tape" and urged them to watch 

the video, which contains nine seconds of sexual content.

Hogan's attorneys told jurors that the core of the case is that "Gawker took a secretly recorded sex tape . and put it on the Internet."

They said Hogan didn't consent to the video, that Gawker didn't follow usual journalism procedures before posting it, and that the video wasn't newsworthy. Hogan didn't ask for this to happen, lawyer Kenneth Turkel said.

Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, is suing Gawker for $100 million.

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9:30 a.m.

Closing arguments have begun in the civil trial between pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and Gawker media over a sex video.

Hogan's attorneys presented their arguments first, saying that Hogan didn't consent to the video. They said Gawker did not follow usual journalism procedures before posting the video because they didn't call Hogan for comment.

Lawyers for Gawker will presents closing arguments afterward.

Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, is suing Gawker for $100 million for posting a video in 2012 of him having sex with his former best friend's wife. Hogan contends it was a violation of his privacy.

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Closing arguments are expected to begin in former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media over a sex tape.

Court resumes at 9 a.m. Friday after Judge Pamela Campbell sent jurors home early Thursday while lawyers for Hogan, Gawker and media companies discussed evidence issues.

On Thursday, the Second District Court of Appeals in Lakeland, Florida, ruled that sealed documents in the case are public records and should be available to the public and the media.

Attorneys for media companies including The Associated Press were seeking to have the files unsealed.

Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, is suing Gawker for $100 million for posting a video in 2012 of him having sex with his former best friend's wife. Hogan contends it was a violation of his privacy.

Charter School Uses Coffee To Improve Lives Of Former High School Drop Outs

Charter School Uses Coffee To Improve Lives Of Former High School Drop Outs

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A North Philadelphia Charter School that targets former high school drop outs is seeing success through a new program that prepares youth for a different type of daily grind.

Wearing green aprons and black Starbucks hats, this is the dream team.

“Hi can I get a latte,” asks one customer.

These guys are baristas in training at the StarBucks Cafe, located on the 5th floor of Youth Build Charter High School where the education is about a lot more just macchiatos.

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George Washington Carver HS Students Honor The Life Of Student Who Died From Bacterial Meningitis

George Washington Carver HS Students Honor The Life Of Student Who Died From Bacterial Meningitis

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A North Philadelphia school community is mourning the loss of a student who died from bacterial meningitis. Tonight, parents are gathering at the high school for a meeting to discuss the illness.

There were dozen of balloons floating upward to remember the life of a freshman at George Washington Carver High School, who died Tuesday due to complications from bacterial meningitis.

Friends say the 15-year-old was a rising sports star with a big smile and a great personality. “He was a good person. He was big and kind and gentle,” said one of his classmates.

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It was the students themselves that asked for the tribute. Friends and fellow classmates came together, displaying a silver lining in this tragic death.

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Philadelphia High School Student Dies Of Bacterial Meningitis

Philadelphia High School Student Dies Of Bacterial Meningitis

  

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Letters were sent home to the parents of students at Philadelphia’s George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science, informing them that a student at the school died after suffering from bacterial meningitis.

According to the letter, the student was a male in the ninth-grade at the school located at 1600 West Norris Street in Philadelphia.

School District spokesperson Fernando Gallard told CBS 3 that the 15-year-old died early on Tuesday morning at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

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PA Advocates Renew Push To Eliminate Statute Of Limitations In Child Sex Abuse Cases

PA Advocates Renew Push To Eliminate Statute Of Limitations In Child Sex Abuse Cases

  

HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) — Advocates say they believe the grand jury report about abuse by priests in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese is a tipping point in their effort to eliminate the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases.

Advocates have been trying for more than a decade to enact legislation that would eliminate the statute of limitations for both criminal and civil cases of child sex abuse. At a state capitol event Monday, Attorney General Kathleen Kane was among those who argued for a change in the law.

“That those who prey on our children know that you’ll never get a free pass,” Kane said.

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Hundreds Pay Their Respects To Fallen NJ State Trooper

Hundreds Pay Their Respects To Fallen NJ State Trooper

  

CINNAMINSON, N.J. (CBS) – Hundreds of family, friends and fellow police officers gathered at Saint Charles Borromeo Church in Burlington County Sunday to pay their respects to New Jersey State Trooper Sean Cullen, who was killed last week.

His funeral is set for noon Monday.

American flags and blue ribbons lined the Cinnaminson streets where Trooper Sean Cullen grew up.
He was responding to a crash last week on 295 in Deptford Township, when he was struck and killed by a car.

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Story Of Local ‘Riveter,’ Her Group Of WWII Pioneers Told In Documentary

Story Of Local ‘Riveter,’ Her Group Of WWII Pioneers Told In Documentary
 
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Twenty million American women closed the gender gap during World War II. But a class of “Rosie the Riveters” also broke racial barriers.

“Rosie the Riveter” was the image the government used to get women to come to work during World War II. But the image of Rosie doesn’t encompass all of the women who helped at home with the effort.

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Philadelphia Youth Network Looking For Summer Jobs For Teens

Philadelphia Youth Network Looking For Summer Jobs For Teens

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Philadelphia Youth Network hopes to find part time jobs for 10,000 teenagers again this summer.

The Network isn’t picky about jobs for 14-to-21-year-olds in its WorkReady summer jobs program.
They can be the time-honored ice cream scooper sort, though with Bank of America as lead sponsor, there are sure to be some office slots.

And with the city providing nearly $4 million worth of jobs, there are lots of rec leader positions.

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Memorial Held For Irish Workers Who Died Building Main Line Railroad In 1832

Memorial Held For Irish Workers Who Died Building Main Line Railroad In 1832

  

The team excavating from 2004 to 2012, finally began uncovering remains, studies indicating the seven workers found had, in fact, been murdered, shot or beaten to death — most likely by vigilantes fueled by hatred of immigrants, the Irish,Catholics and fear of their spreading cholera.

So far the remains of two workers have been identified and they have been given proper burials at special ceremonies in the country they left, but would never see again. Five other sets of remains are now at the memorial in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

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Robert De Niro Stars In Local Liquor Store’s Grand Opening

Robert De Niro Stars In Local Liquor Store’s Grand Opening

 

GLEN MILLS, P.A., (CBS) — On Friday, Robert De Niro starred in the grand opening of a new liquor store in Delaware County. The Academy Award winner met some lucky fans at the new Fine Wine and
Good Spirits store in Glen Mills.

De Niro has created a new line of Vodka and signed a limited number of the bottles. Fans were excited to get to see him.

“Meeting Robert De Niro is the only thing on my bucket list,” one customer in line said.

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New Development Project Planned For University City

New Development Project Planned For University City

  

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It’s called Schuylkill Yards: a multi-billion development project in University City including eight new high-rises and a new public square along Market Street, just west of 30th Street.

Drexel is behind the 20-year plan that is designed to create a neighborhood built around innovation.
“This is where ideas will converge.”

Bounded by the Schuylkill River, Drexel’s campus, and 30th Street Station.

“The media around the country will have to learn how to pronounce and spell Schuylkill,” said Jerry Sweeney, CEO of Schuylkill Yards developer Brandywine Realty Trust.

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Penn Med School Has Special Link To Returning Astronaut

Penn Med School Has Special Link To Returning Astronaut

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — From the moment Scott Kelly lifted off on his year-long mission to the International Space Station, you might be surprised to learn that, far from Mission Control, some of those in closest contact with Kelly are researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of

Pennsylvania led by Dr. Mathias Basner.

“He’s just a great person,” Dr. Basner told CBS 3’s Walt Hunter.
“It’s a great pleasure working with him and his brother.”

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