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Negotiations aimed at ending a transit strike in Philadelphia broke off Saturday night with Pennsylvania's governor calling on the union to let its members vote on the company's offer.

Recessions come and go but the International Fine Print Dealers Association Fair remains the same - splendidly varied, elegantly casual and cheerfully affordable.

Originally tweeting a Dec. 15 release date, Chris Brown 's much-anticipated album, "Graffiti," has been pushed up a week, Jive Records has announced.

Show cleared in nearly half the U.S. for fall 2011 By Paige Albiniak -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/3/2009 3:23:17 PM Twentieth Television's off-FX It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has cleared 45% of the country, with stations in 23 markets picking up the show for a fall 2011 launch.

According to calculations by the the Independent Budget Office, the Yankees have to pay $75,000 in wage taxes for playing three nights in Philadelphia.

Six days a week, New Yorkers are sending upwards of 2,500 tons of their trash to landfills north of Philadelphia , many located in towns just 30 miles from the Citizens Bank Park , the home stadium of the Philadelphia Phillies.

What You Want, Be What You Are," the new four-CD boxed set devoted to the music of Daryl Hall and John Oates , is full of testimonials to the Philadelphia -bred soul-pop tandem.

Facebook Photo: Susan Finkelstein. NEW YORK Pennsylvania police may not have been impressed with Susan Finkelstein's "creative" Craigslist offer allegedly to trade sex for World Series tickets, but one New York-based ticket broker says he wants to show the wild Phillies fan that the Big Apple has a heart.

The crude boosterism of local tabs has certainly helped jack up interest in the World Series.

NEW YORK Susan Finkelstein, the Phillies fan who, police say, wanted to trade sex for a pair of tickets to the World Series, told Crimesider in an exclusive interview that "there is no such thing as a free ticket." PICTURES: Sex For Series The 43-year-old Finkelstein, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student, vehemently denied police ...

Fans started camping out yesterday afternoon for the chance at one of less than 200 World Series tickets that will be sold at Yankee Stadium at 10 a.m. this morning.

Struggling US Airways said on Wednesday it will cut some 1,000 jobs next year, shift nearly all of its flying to its three hubs and Washington, and suspend several international routes.

MASHPEE - Capt. Eric Jones of Pound Ridge, one of four Marines killed Monday in a helicopter crash, was remembered today by his parents as someone who fought to protect them, even as he fought thousands of miles away to protect the United States.

Yorkers! Won't be lured to Philly for baseball? How about a little culture? Or maybe a cheesesteak? Tourism officials in Philadelphia and New York expect to take advantage of the Phillies- Yankees World Series by drawing dollars from the other end of the New Jersey Turnpike.

CHICAGO - Two Chicago men who were schoolmates in Pakistan plotted terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper that triggered widespread protests by printing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, federal prosecutors said Tuesday in announcing charges against the men.

The World Series matchup has already generated several names like the Liberty Series, the New Jersey Turnpike Series and the Amtrak Park to Yankee Stadium is 108 miles - 1 hour 44 minutes without traffic.

The families of three Americans being held in Iran plan to release video footage that they say proves the three were simply on vacation and had no underhand intentions when they strayed across the border.

Put this in the did-you-know file: When it comes to getting to work by commuter train, Westchester County is No.

Alstom Transport Inc., a subsidiary of French engineering firm Alstom SA, plans to cut 500 jobs in Hornell, which amounts to more than half the work force at the Steuben County rail car assembly plant.

Some top local talent will join Broadway veterans on Saturday when the Disabled Persons Action Organization presents "Best of Broadway." Adams native and acclaimed soprano Lisa Vroman will make her first visit to Watertown since performing in a similar DPAO presentation four years ago.