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(The Associated Press) This undated photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Gregory Thomas. Thomas is one of three people charged following the discovery of four malnourished mentally disabled adults chained to a boiler in a locked northeast Philadelphia basement room that was too small for an adult to stand up straight and also reeked of waste from the buckets they used to relieve themselves, police said Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011.

3 charged after 4 disabled adults locked up in Pa.

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 8:12am

PHILADELPHIA — Three people have been charged following the discovery of four malnourished mentally disabled adults chained to a boiler in a locked northeast Philadelphia basement room that was too small for an adult to stand up straight and also reeked of waste from the buckets they used to relieve themselves, police said Sunday.

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Maj. Richard "Dick" Winters is seen in Sept. 22, 2002 file photo. Winters died Jan. 2, 2011 in central Pennsylvania, a family friend confirmed Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Winters, was the man whose quiet leadership was chronicled in the book and television miniseries "Band of Brothers." He was 92.

'Band of Brothers’ inspiration Winters dies at 92

Ron Todt, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 10, 2011 - 4:39pm

PHILADELPHIA — Even as Parkinson’s disease began taking its toll on Dick Winters, who led his “Band of Brothers” through some of World War II’s fiercest European battles, the unassuming hero refused, as always, to let his men down.

Friends accompanied him to public events, subtly clearing a path through the adoring crowds for the living legend, whose Easy Company’s achievements were documented by a 1992 book and HBO miniseries. His gait had grown unsteady, and he did not want to be seen stumbling.

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Pa. swim club accused of racism to ask kids back

Ron Todt

Last updated Monday, July 13, 2009 - 6:52pm

PHILADELPHIA -- A private suburban swim club accused of racism after it canceled the memberships of dozens of minority children says it will seek a meeting with the kids' camps to work out an agreement for them to return.
Amy Goldman, a member of The Valley Club, said those able to attend a hastily called meeting Sunday afternoon voted unanimously in support of reinstating the memberships of the Creative Steps day camp and two other camps as long as safety issues, times and terms can be agreed upon.
The Creative Steps camp had arranged for 65 mostly black and Hispanic children to swim each Monday afternoon at the gated Huntingdon Valley club, which is on a leafy hillside in a village straddling two overwhelmingly white townships. But after the group arrived June 29, camp director Alethea Wright said, several children reported hearing racial comments and some swim club members pulled their children out of the pool.

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