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  • Area artists, lingerie designers, the burlesque troupe Bawdy Girls, and avant-gardistes will gather tonight in Northern Liberties to begin a month-long online auction of eighteen "corsets for a cure," with proceeds going to Philadelphia's Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation. A raffle and prizes donated by area merchants will benefit Andrea Collins Smith of Fishtown, whose blog about her battle with cancer is widely read.
  • Mostly what we have for you this morning are election results from all around the area: municipal elections for Bucks County and Montgomery County, School Board elections for Montgomery County, ballot questions in Bucks, and the various suburban races. And of course, as expected, Nutter's position as Mayor has been made official. The Daily News has some more details on John Lewis' flight from police and his eventual capture, and the Inquirer has the...

  • Three Philadelphia funeral-home directors were charged yesterday with stealing body parts from the dead without family permission and selling them as part of a $1 billion transplant industry. Much of the tissue was taken from unsuitable donors, but paperwork was falsified to make the donors appear healthy.
  • The still theoretical Philadelphia Major League Soccer franchise already has a fan club: the Sons of Ben, or SoBs.
  • Phillyist has been watching Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum very closely. Santorum, up for reelection next year, has made quite a name for himself as a super religious conservative and has been sinking in the polls for quite some time. In an effort to shimmy to the middle and appeal to a wider range of voters, Santorum completely reversed his previous pro-death penalty stance this past Summer and has now flip-flopped his position on Intelligent Design.

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