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Court overturns sex-for-tickets case

Alfred Lubrano The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 4:45pm

PHILADELPHIA -- The Superior Court of Pennsylvania on Tuesday reversed the attempted prostitution conviction of a woman who was famously tried for trying to trade sex for Phillies World Series tickets.

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The debate over food stamps

Alfred Lubrano The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 8:16am

PHILADELPHIA -- Hard times are compelling 46 million Americans to use food stamps, a number up an astonishing 70 percent from four years ago.

Now totaling about $65 billion a year, the recession-swelled food stamp program is drawing attention from some conservatives in Congress who wonder whether such spending should be corralled.

Part of the renewed conversation involves questions over the list of items that food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), can and cannot be used to buy.

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Two shooting victims' families, friends try to cope with deaths

Melissa Dribben, The Associated Press, Alfred Lubrano

Last updated Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 12:07am

PHILADELPHIA -- The Northeast Philadelphia plant that produced cookies and crackers for Kraft Foods gave LaTonya Brown and Tanya Wilson, two single mothers on the second shift, a way to provide their children with stable lives.

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