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Catholics in Philadelphia react on Wednesday to selection of the new pope.
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Host Rachel Martin speaks with Dr. Ted Corbin about hospital-focused efforts to help victims of urban violence. Corbin is the director of Healing Hurt People, a program based at Drexel University and Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia. The program supports victims of violence immediately upon their arrival in the emergency room.
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A bridge collapse sent at least four tank cars into a creek. They reportedly contain vinyl chloride and at least one of the cars is reportedly leaking. Residents have been told to stay inside and roads to the area have been closed.
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Despite a direct hit from Sandy, Philadelphia, the country's fifth largest city, emerged relatively unscathed. Mass transit is rolling and schools will reopen Wednesday.
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Lawyers in Pennsylvania are working furiously to help file petitions for the state's juvenile lifers before the end of the month. A recent Supreme Court ruling struck down mandatory juvenile life terms, and hundreds of Pennsylvania prisoners are hoping they can get new sentencing hearings.
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During sentencing the judge said William Lynn had enabled "monsters in clerical garb" to abuse children.
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Msgr. William J. Lynn was found guilty of endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy. Lynn was the first Catholic official in the country to face trial in the aftermath of the abuse scandal.
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The Chanticleer estate in Wayne, Pa., is 37 enchanting acres open to the public. "It's music, it's ballet, it's cinema," writes one garden critic, "the garden as an art form."
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When the Philadelphia Orchestra first visited China four decades ago, it was a prestigious, well-funded institution performing in a poor, underdeveloped nation. Now the orchestra is emerging from bankruptcy and hoping that an increasingly wealthy China can provide new streams of revenue.
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In a Philadelphia courtroom Thursday, jurors will hear closing arguments in a historic case involving the Catholic sex abuse scandal. William Lynn, a monsignor in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, is the first high-level church official to be tried for his involvement in covering up child abuse.