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Philly's More Fun When You Know What You're Talking About

Three Philadelphia Tour Guides are up-in-arms due to a City Council bill that says all guides must be certified by obtaining a license. The license is given after the guides pass an exam that tests their knowledge of Philadelphia history. They feel this is in violation of their rights and have filed a lawsuit against the city.

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By Don Montrey in on July 2, 2008 10:45 AM

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  • David C. Sicoli, a Philadelphia priest with "a long history of abusive and manipulative relationships with adolescents," according to a grand jury report, has finally been defrocked by the Roman Catholic Church. No criminal charges were ever lodged against him. Numerous complaints were filed about his alleged misconduct with boys, however, and other priests warned about him, but the church continued to simply transfer him to different parishes, and even ended up naming him associate director of the CCD youth program for the entire Philadelphia area.

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    By Jim Genzano in on February 15, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • A third-grade girl has been suspended from Highland Park Elementary School in Upper Darby, and may be expelled, apparently because she thought the authentic-looking replica of a German Luger that she'd brought with her to school on Monday was a real gun. She found it in a box in her family's attic and brought it with her to protect herself because her brother wasn't going to be able to walk her home that day.

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    By Jim Genzano in on March 22, 2007 8:00 AM

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