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Both on camera and off, Lisa Thomas-Laury's life seemed perfecta glamorous job on television, a loving and successful husband, two great kids. She was a trendsetter, one of the first African American women to anchor TV news in a large U.S. city, and her work put her in touch with celebrities ranging from Ronald Reagan and Ted Kennedy to Oprah Winfrey and Princess Diana. Within a few years at Philadelphia's Action News, she became one of the mo...

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Facing Down Evil deals with the role of the hostage negotiator in the defusing of major crises by the FBI. Author Clint Van Zandt covers the training and formation of a hostage negotiator and discusses his role during the Waco siege in 1993, the handling of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 1995, and the Unabomber case in 1996, as well as survival strategies for those taken hostage and ever-emerging issues for FBI Special Agents. In ...

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Love and Greed in the Heartland is the story of an insurance fraud scheme gone fatally wrong. On one night in Richmond Hill, what was meant to be a small fire mushroomed into a major explosion and the largest homicide investigation in Indiana's history. With patience and meticulous attention to detail, former police captain and Commander of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch, Robert L. Snow, and award-winning...

Their intensive drug raid had the pusher cornered, barricaded behind the other side of a locked door. Mike Chitwood called on him to surrender. Suddenly a shot exploded through the door, hitting Chitwood's partner, who fell seriously injured into his arms. Then a second shot rang out, narrowly missing Chitwood's head. Enraged, he grabbed a sledgehammer to break down the door as the pusher fired two more shots. Surrounded now by three narcotics...

Tony Auth's cartoons, seemingly simple and always direct, have influenced public opinion and politicians for more than 40 years. "Our job is not to amuse our readers, " says Auth of a national artistic heritage of editorial cartooning that began with Benjamin Franklin in 1754. "Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them." Auth was a fledgling artist from California in 1971 when The Philadelphia Inquirer flew him in for a weeklong job...

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The stories presented here are true slices of life taken from an underworld where people don't play by the rules and where the good guys don't always win. These are real-life stories about wiseguys and drug dealers, con men and murders. In these pages, you'll find the true noir stories that have bubbled up under the magnifying glass of a 30-year veteran reporter at the The Philadelphia Inquirer. It's a fascinating look into the minds, crimes, ...

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Suddenly, mysteriously, and anywhere at any time, a Ford truck parked on an incline would roll away on its own. At first, the consequences were minor a dented bumper, a dinged garage door. But one day, at a secluded cabin in rural Pennsylvania, a Ford F 150 pickup rolled toward a crawling baby. Its rear tire caught his tiny arm, pinning him in place, then rolled over his head. A year later, and with many accidents in between, a spontaneously m...

The Spectrum became a special place for millions of fans throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region, hosting hundreds of events each year. Although its doors are now closed, look back at the greatest moments in Philadelphia sports under one never-to-be-forgotten roof.

In a compact but compelling way, Dr. Harold Gullan intertwines the unique history of the University of Pennsylvania with that of Philadelphia itself?and the overall state of intercollegiate athletics today. This book should be of interest to a wide spectrum of readers, whether they are basketball fans or not, and wherever they may have gone to school.

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Lew Freedman is a veteran sportswriter who covered the boxing beat full time for the Philadelphia Inquirer in addition to working on the staffs of the Chicago Tribune and the Anchorage Daily News. A native of Boston, he is the author of numerous books about sports, including The 50 Greatest Players in Boston Red Sox History.

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The Red Sox have been blessed with many legends and great plays. Ted Williams, Cy Young and Babe Ruth are considered some of the best players among fans. Players such as Carl Yastrzemski, Jimmie Foxx, Carlton Fisk and Roger Clemens also created many fond memories in Red Sox history with their pitches and hits, their historic home runs and bring-the-heat strikeouts. While this book will surely provoke discussion among Red Sox fans, a new genera...

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