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Kobe Bryant says mom not told she could sell basketball memorabilia

2013-05-09 17:51:00

The Kobe Bryant memorabilia story has taken another turn: The Lakers star claims he never gave his mother permission to sell some of his basketball mementos. Bryant's lawyers have asked New Jersey-based Goldin Auctions to terminate plans to sell items...

Wheeler rolling to FCC. DreamWorks Animation eyes AwesomenessTV

2013-05-01 07:09:00

After the coffee. Before a long morning of earnings calls. The Skinny: I got through the season finale of "The Following" last night. It wasn't easy. Fortunately,� afterward I watched the premiere of Comedy Central's "Inside Amy," which was a tad...

Hilary Koprowski dies at 96; developed oral vaccine for polio

2013-04-22 00:00:00

Hilary Koprowski, a Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccine for polio, has died. He was 96. Koprowski died of pneumonia April 11 at his Philadelphia home, said his son, Dr. Christopher Koprowski, a radiation oncologist....

WATCH: Philadelphia triple shooting caught on video, man sought

2013-03-22 06:30:00

�Philadelphia police have released dramatic footage of a shooting that left three youths injured and the gunman at large. Police didn't give a possible motive for the Tuesday shooting, which happened just outside a Chinese takeout food store. The...

Sick of Black Friday, Cyber Monday hype? Try 'Giving Tuesday'

2012-11-27 08:45:00

At this rate, soon every day of the holiday season will have a name. Thanksgiving Thursday begot Black Friday, which then begot Cyber Monday, and which nonprofits are hoping this year will now beget Giving Tuesday — a new branding effort after...

Marc Duvoisin named L.A. Times managing editor

2012-08-09 12:13:38

Philadelphia Orchestra shows local boy some brotherly love

2012-10-16 08:30:00

The Philadelphia Orchestra has come to the rescue of a budding musician, 9-year-old Aidan Milligan. The special-needs fourth-grader was so excited over an upcoming trombone lesson that he left his instrument on the curb at the end of his driveway. It soon...

Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle

2012-08-12 00:00:00

Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...

Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia: What did the critics think?

2012-08-25 11:39:00

One of the most controversial moves in recent art-world memory, the relocation of the Barnes Foundation, has drawn the national press to Philadelphia where the venerated art institution opened its new building earlier this month. The Barnes, which was...

PASSINGS: Ron Palillo, Al Freeman Jr., James M. Naughton

2012-08-15 00:00:00

Ron Palillo Actor played Arnold Horshack on 'Kotter' Ron Palillo, 63, an actor whose signature role was Arnold Horshack in the 1970s TV sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Tuesday of a heart attack in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said his agent, Jackie...

Lupe Ontiveros dies at 69; 'Desperate Housewives' actress

2012-07-28 00:00:00

Veteran actress Lupe Ontiveros, the El Paso-born daughter of Mexican immigrants, once estimated that she had played the role of a maid more than 150 times during her career. That's why the 4-foot-11 actress was so overjoyed more than a decade ago when...

Review: Charming son shines in Buzz Bissinger's 'Father's Day'

2012-06-17 00:00:00

Father's Day A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son Buzz Bissinger Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 256 pp., $26 It took author Buzz Bissinger four years to write "Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son,"...

Why: An intern on Thursday told a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury hearing abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's murder trial of her unusual hands-on medical apprenticeship.

2013-04-12 00:00:00

While at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Richard Ben Cramer won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his work from the Middle East where he was stationed from 1977 to 1984.

2013-01-08 09:02:00

Box office: $44,785,053 The only X-rated film to win an Academy Award for best picture, John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" (based on James Leo Herlihy's novel) starred then-newcomer Jon Voight, left, as a prostitute in New York City and Dustin Hoffman as his friend, an ailing thief.

2012-08-14 13:01:08