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  • On Sunday, a man with no heart and sticky fingers stole a wad of cash in a jar placed in a gas station by a charity aimed at helping children with terminal illnesses, and then returned later to spend some of the money. The man (if you can call him that), at about 7 a.m., entered Rimbaugh's Exxon gas station, on Route 23 near White Horse Road in Phoenixville, where he tucked a small, clear, money-filled bucket with a red lid under his jacket and left the store. A surveillance video shows the man stashing the container in a light-colored Nissan and re-entering the store, where he made several purchases.
  • The day after the April 22nd primaries left us, like many other Pennsylvanians, feeling like cast off one-night-stands, watching the news vans drive off and the reporters cast their collective gaze to the hotter contest down the Appalachian chain.

  • The Inquirer updates readers on the imminent eviction of the Cradle of Liberty Council Boy Scouts chapter from their downtown headquarters. In response to what it deems discriminatory behavior by the organization against gays and atheists, the city recently required the group to pay a fair-market value of $200,000 in rent—up from $1 per year—in order to stay in the building it has occupied since 1937.
  • Last Friday & the weekend: Michael probably doesn't know it, but he got a shout-out from Hot Hot Heat frontman Michael Bays at last week's FREEZEtival before the band played "Bandages." What the connection between the song and our mayor is, we have no idea. And in real news, Michael named his appointees to the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority board.

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