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Nearly a year after the massacre at Virginia Tech, questions on gun control have emerged again in the wake of the February 14th shooting at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois. A Google News search yields just as many op-ed pieces about the Illinois tragedy as news articles. Here’s a review of gun-related news in those states:

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  • The Kingsessing Recreation Center, site of an April 12 shooting, has long had, and continues to have, problems with drugs and violence. Residents don't feel the city is doing enough. The regular monthly meeting of the Kingsessing Recreation Center Advisory Council is tonight at 7 at 50th St. and Kingsessing Ave.
  • A senior at Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls was killed in a car crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on the way from her prom to the Poconos Saturday morning. Six other people were also injured. It was a one-car crash, and nobody in the car was wearing a seat belt. Indications are that the driver, a 17-year-old senior at Roman Catholic High School, fell asleep at the wheel.
  • With all that went down this week, we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs.

    In response to the shootings on the Virginia Tech Campus and the escalating violence on Philadelphia streets, Broad Street Ministries will hold an ecumenical candlelight vigil service tonight at 7 p.m.

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  • Governor Corzine's car was doing 91 in a 65 MPH zone on the night of his recent accident, and although it slowed to 30 before the crash, the trooper driving now admits that his high rate of speed might have been a factor in the accident.
  • The consensus on our recent storm? It could have been worse! The flooding wasn't as bad as feared.
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