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Down Under Donuts

I know you’ve been waiting for a follow-up to my blog two weeks ago about the stolen van loaded with ten-thousand Krispy Kreme donuts in Australia. The story gained world wide interest. A woman was seen on surveillance video at a gas station in Carlingford outside of Sydney jumping into an unmarked white van at

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Ten Thousand Donuts

It was 3:30am this past Wednesday at a gas station in Carlingford, Australia northwest of Sydney. A woman was seen hanging around the gas pumps near a white unmarked van. The driver was inside paying for his gas. Surveillance video shows the woman jumping in the van and taking off. We don’t know when she

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Man at the Window

Lee Harvey Oswald began working at the Texas School Book Depository about six weeks before he became the most infamous man in the world. He was an “order filler”. He worked on the first and sixth floors. He would gather books from an order sheet and deliver them to the first floor shipping room. It

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Red Flag

Eighteen year of Jillian Ludwig a freshman at Belmont University in Nashville was walking on a track in a park in the middle of the afternoon this week. The bullet hit her in the head. She was found almost an hour later taken to a hospital where she died two days later. Ludwig had only

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Darkness Ahead

We have one week before everything changes. We had the last late gasp of summer over the weekend when the temperature hit 80 degrees. The leaves were at their peak of red, orange and yellow. But they will be joining the dry, brown, dying leaves that have been crunching under foot for weeks. This last

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Words of a Warrior

“In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans, who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in

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September to Remember

It’s supposed to be the time when summer slips into fall. The temperature cools down. The foliage makes us appreciate the world around us. There is good news for parents as their kids go back to school. Kids not so much. So, what the hell happened? The month started with a blast of record hot

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Shades of Darkness and Light

It caught my eye as my wife and I walked through The Jenkintown Arts Festival. We were looking for new art for the house by a local artist. We actually came back to it twice before buying it. We wanted to check out as many artists as we could. There were dozens. But I was

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Catch Me If You Can

It’s day eleven. He’s still on the loose. He could be caught by the time you read this. But, so far he’s like trying to find a shadow in the night. This has a been the summer of extreme heat, wild fires, floods, and Trump indictments. But no story has shaken people  in Chester County,

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Wrong House

It keeps happening. This time it was a twenty-year old University of South Carolina student who banged on the wrong door at two-o’clock in the morning. Earlier this year, it was a Missouri teenager going to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers. In rural New York, a car full of young people

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