It was old-time hockey back in Philadelphia, you know, like Eddie Shore.  The only thing missing from the Flyers games versus the Senators Thursday Night was Reggie Dunlap sending in the Hanson brothers, oh, and Ned Braden doing his strip tease to end the game handing the Charlestown Chiefs the championship.
The game of hockey has changed dramatically since the days of when the Broad Street Bullies terrorized the NHL and Russians, winning two Stanley Cups in the mid ‘70s.
When push comes to shove for this new group of scrappy, hard-nosed Flyers, they certainly are not afraid to drop their gloves and stand skate-to-skate with any team in the NHL.
Now Ottawa, not quit the Syracuse Bulldogs, whose top line included the likes of Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken and Ogie Ogilthorpe, came to Philly looking for a fight and they got one.

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True Grit: Devonshire, Lakeshore, Palace, SilverCity, Star (14A) Hailee Steinfield, Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper. A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her fatherâs murderer.
Yogi Bear: Devonshire, Forest Glade, Lakeshore, SilverCity, Star (G) Anna Faris, Justin Timberlake, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Cavanaugh, Andrew Daly. A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo-Boo and Ranger Smith.
special screenings
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer: The story of New Yorkâs Gov. Eliot Spitzerâs shocking fall after the New York Times revealed that he had been the client of a high-priced prostitution ring. It plays tonight and Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at Detroit Film Theatre, 5200 Woodward Ave. (entrance on John R.) Detroit. Tickets US$7.50. Call 313-833-4005.

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Salthill brothel keeper sentenced to five years
Galway Advertiser, January 20, 2011.
By Fiona Ferguson
A brothel keeper who rented apartments in Galway, Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, and operated 61 websites advertising prostitution has been given a five-year sentence.
Aidan Dorney (39), who gardai described as “not financially savvy”, spent the income from the badly run business on alcohol, gambling, prostitutes, and renting further apartments.
Dorney, of Chelmsford Road, Ranelagh, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to managing brothels at Salthill, Galway; Camden Court, Cork; and Mount Kennett Park, Limerick on dates between April 12 and 21, 2009.

He also admitted a charge of publishing or causing to be published an advertisement which gave rise to the reasonable inference that the premises was a brothel or that the service was one of prostitution.

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Mayor Redd must find options, restore jobs
Column By JEREMY ROSEN Courier-Post Staff
January 19, 2011
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With his back to a stretch of Broadway marred by drug users, dealers and prostitutes, Tony Girgis lifted the gates guarding his Camden liquor store Tuesday morning as the city laid off half its police force.
Girgis anxiously glanced over each shoulder several times, and when he finally opened the door to Triangle Liquors, I approached the stocky mustachioed man to ask about safety.
“I can’t change my business,” he said. “If I die, I die once.”
Starting today, it’s up to Camden Mayor Dana Redd’s administration to keep residents safe.
During a Tuesday media conference, Redd rambled on about the city’s financial issues, claiming she’s done everything possible to prevent layoffs and ultimately blaming public safety unions for the day’s 168 police officer and 67 firefighter layoffs.

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Mayor must find options, restore jobs
By JEREMY ROSEN Courier-Post Staff
January 19, 2011
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With his back to a stretch of Broadway marred by drug users, dealers and prostitutes, Tony Girgis lifted the gates guarding his Camden liquor store Tuesday morning as the city laid off half its police force.
Girgis anxiously glanced over each shoulder several times, and when he finally opened the door to Triangle Liquors, I approached the stocky mustachioed man to ask about safety.
“I can’t change my business,” he said. “If I die, I die once.”
Starting today, it’s up to Camden Mayor Dana Redd’s administration to keep residents safe.
During a Tuesday media conference, Redd rambled on about the city’s financial issues, claiming she’s done everything possible to prevent layoffs and ultimately blaming public safety unions for the day’s 168 police officer and 67 firefighter layoffs.

See the full article from “Cherry Hill Courier Post”

Wednesday January 19, 2011
Police have arrested a 21-year-old homeless man they say is linked to three murders in the Kensington area of Philadelphia. Authorities arrested Antonio Rodriguez after receiving a 9-1-1 call during a press conference announcing that he was a suspect in the Kensington Strangler case.
The caller directed police to a house on Mudder Street where Rodriguez was hiding out.
Philadelphia police began looking for Rodriguez after DNA from three crime scenes was matched to his in a state offender database. Police said the evidence links him to the rape and murder of Casey Mahoney in December 2010 and the murders of Elaine Goldberg and Nicole Piacentini in November.
The women were killed in a section of Kensington known for prostitution and drug activity, Capt. James Clark told reporters.

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Last Friday, Camden County formally announced a proposal to create a regionalized police and fire force, drawing skepticism and questions from local law enforcement officials, according to philly.com.
Some of their questions were: Would police end up spending all their time in Camden at the suburbs’ expense? Would towns pay for police services based on their crime rates, their population, or some other measure?
According to salon.com, Camden’s population has shrunk from over 120,000 to just 79,000 in recent decades. It was once home to Campbell Soup factories and RCA Victor. Walt Whitman is buried there. “I dreamed I saw a city invincible,” a line paraphrased from his poem, “Leaves of Grass, “is engraved on the city hall’s facade. Deindustrialization has remade Camden into a regional hub for narcotics trafficking, prostitution, corruption and joblessness, plagued by violent battles over drug corners. Three mayors over a two-decade period have ended up behind bars.

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The mayor, Michael Nutter, seemed to be cautiously optimistic about the arrest.  He discussed the fact that until the DNA tests are 100% confirm that Rodriquez is the person Philly police have been looking for he will not be too comfortable. “I’ll also have that greater sense of comfort knowing that we absolutely, positively, 100 percent have the person off the street that we’ve been looking for some time,” said the mayor.
Luckily for the mayor, he didn’t have to wait long to have that ‘greater sense of comfort.’
Kensington Strangler Suspect Confesses, Bringing Relief
On Tuesday, Antonio Rodriguez confessed to murdering four people, including the three that investigators had linked together.  The Philadelphia Police seem to have gotten their Kensington Strangler.
This entire serial killer scare started with the rape and murder of Casey Mahoney in December that was later tied by DNA to the November killings of two others, Elaine Goldberg and Nicole Piacentini. The November and December attacks occurred in an area of Kensington that were well known for their drug and prostitution problems.

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Redd said a proposal to the rank-and-file police union, the Fraternal Order of Police, was to be voted on Wednesday. She would not say exactly what the proposal entailed or how many jobs it could save. But she said that if the unions agree to concessions, about 100 police officers and most of the firefighters could be brought back.
Chambers said residents should not expect to be safe as the number of fire companies is reduced. He said the union will continue to meet with city officials to try to reach a deal under which some firefighters could be brought back.
Police officers had begun turning in their badges Monday as it became clear that no last-minute deal was going to save many jobs.
Located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Camden is rampant with open drug-dealing, prostitution and related crimes. More than half of Camden’s 80,000 residents, mostly black and Hispanic, live in poverty.

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In addition, those sources also say that women who are believed to have been attacked by the ‘Stranger,’ but survived, positively identified Rodriguez as the man who attacked them.
Police previously said that Rodriguez has mentioned a fourth killing. However, Action News has learned that it was a misunderstanding between Rodriguez and the detective questioning him, and no fourth death was actually mentioned.
Formal charges have not yet been filed for the murders.
The bodies of the three women were found between early November and mid-December in vacant lots within a 10-block radius. The victims, all in their 20s, had struggled with drug addiction.
The attacks took place in a stretch of Kensington known for open prostitution and drugs, although an influx of artists and young homebuyers has made parts of the neighborhood a bit trendier in recent years.

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