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BERLIN, Md. - Authorities on the Eastern Shore say a man from Delaware County, Pa., has been charged with murder after he allegedly ran over his mother with a van several times on a rural road.

Yet another mistaken release at the Delaware County prison this week has left officials frustrated, wondering how many more prisoners have walked free this year, and recognizing there are systemwide problems with the paperwork for inmate releases.

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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency Friday into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, warning that the negotiations might be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement.

As federal investigators scrutinize the books and operations of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, the agency has suspended all contracts with outside consultants and lawyers until further notice.

A local team had high hopes of flying its gigantic, homemade replica of the Phillie Phanatic off a 30-foot platform into the Delaware River turned to heartbreak yesterday when Major League Baseball forbade the flight because of trademark restrictions.

Another mistaken release at the Delaware County prison this week has left officials frustrated, wondering how many more prisoners have walked free this year, and recognizing there are system-wide problems with the paperwork for inmate releases.

Police on Friday identified a man who allegedly raped a woman near Eighth and Race Streets Sunday night and left his pants at the scene.

A 19-year-old woman was charged with DUI and aggravated assault after her 20-year-old boyfriend was run over by a car early yesterday while he was trying to push it up the Manayunk Wall, police said.

Come Sunday at dusk, Clifford Greer will bare all and take to his bicycle for one reason: "to promote fuel-conscious consumption."

THERE WAS always something about Steven Molin that bothered folks in Darby, some hard-to-describe vibe that made him seem off-putting.

An African-American family has reached a second settlement with a New Jersey shore town for more than $100,000 in a racial discrimination lawsuit.

Three weeks ago, physician Steven Brigham led a car caravan of patients from his Voorhees abortion clinic to his facility in Elkton, Md. After one of the patients was critically injured during her surgery there, Brigham put the semiconscious, bleeding woman into the back of a rented Chevrolet Malibu and drove her to a nearby hospital emergency room rather than call an ambulance.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Joe Paterno, as indicated by the famously outdated game-day wardrobes he and his Nittany Lions continue to wear, doesn't do change well.

After her son was killed in 2008, Sherderian Sutton got a Philadelphia license to carry a concealed weapon and a small Ruger pistol to protect herself and her surviving children.

A young man was struck and killed by a SEPTA trolley in Upper Darby Thursday night.

George Kaiser walked through the smoldering remains of his Collingdale self-storage business Thursday and gently pushed a basketball-size chunk of metal with the toe of his boot.

It's happened again at the Delaware County prison. Yet another inmate was accidentally released this week from the George W. Hill Correctional Facility, county officials confirmed yesterday, making for the sixth such incident there in recent months.

The timing was horrible. Or perfect, depending on your agenda. At noon Thursday, state and local officials had called a news conference in Bensalem to address ways of ending a recent outbreak of adults leaving children alone in vehicles outside the Parx Casino there. Six such incidents had been reported since June 15, resulting in four arrests.