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Philadelphia Daily News
Philly lender scooped up dozens of houses using fishy tactics
They all appear to have fallen prey to a unique lending hustle that enabled the company to amass a small empire of subpar housing in a completely legal Wild West of quick real-estate funds and even faster losses, leaving low-income renters with housing horror stories. ***COVER STORY, DN Exclusive***
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Struggling with his own demons, man saves stranger who fell on SEPTA track
CHRISTOPHER Knaflec wasn’t even sure if he was a good person until a reporter asked him what it felt like to be a hero after he’d risked his life to pull a stranger off the SEPTA subway tracks Thursday. ***COVER STORY***
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The King of … North Philly?
LEBRON JAMES, a product of the mean streets of Akron, Ohio, thinks he can tackle North Philly. ***COVER STORY***
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Veterans group wants vets in city’s VA office
A VETERANS GROUP wants to see some of its kind – actual vets – working at Philadelphia’s self-described “one-stop shop” for the city’s nearly 80,000 veterans.
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Lawmakers to push for ban on gay conversion therapy
PENNSYLVANIA could be the third state to ban anti-gay conversion therapy for minors if Philly lawmakers get their way.
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Immigrant-rights group seeks end to police, ICE collaboration
JOHN AND Zulymar Rios, 6 and 9, were among undocumented immigrants’ children who rallied yesterday at City Hall to urge city officials to abandon a collaboration with the feds that leads to deportation.
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Experts see imminent strike on Syria with uncertain results
THERE’S LITTLE doubt that President Obama’s “red line” – the use of chemical weapons – has been crossed in Syria’s bloody, two-year civil war, but what comes next is less certain.
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Savage’s defense rails against prosecution’s “trial magic”
THE LINCHPIN witnesses in the racketeering/murder trial of reputed Philly drug boss Kaboni Savage were simply reading from the prosecution’s script, defense lawyer Christian Hoey said during his closing arguments yesterday.…………
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Philly marathoners gear up for solidarity run on Thursday night
Philly running groups plan on showing solidarity with Boston Marathoners by doing what they do best. They’ll run.
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La Salle T-shirts disappear as campus swoons over team
THE FIRST batch of Explorers Basketball Sweet 16 shirts were hung on racks at the La Salle campus store about noon Tuesday. They were gone in less than half an hour.
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Residents blast city over noisy S. Philly scrapyard
Nightmares don’t send Andrew Rosser’s three young children running for the safety of dad’s room. Instead, they start screaming when their South Philadelphia house starts shaking in the middle of the night.
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Sugar-daddy billboard protested in Southwest Philly
Close to a dozen pastors, reverends and bishops crowded the entrance to the Steen Outdoor Advertising building in Southwest Philly on Tuesday to protest a billboard that makes a cheeky edit to the 7th Commandment.
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