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• 73-year-old robbed, attacked sparks fear in residents (6abc Philadelphia)

  A 73-year-old continues to fight for his life as fellow residents say they feared something like this was going to happen.

• Recent Cases Show Challenge Of U.S. Terrorists (CBS 3 Philadelphia)

  The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans. One is a woman who looked after the elderly in suburban Pennsylvania. Another a security guard from New Jersey.

• Woman dies jumping off Walt Whitman Bridge (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  One day after an elderly Pitman man was talked out of jumping off the Commodore Barry Bridge following an 8-hour standoff, a Burlington City woman leaped to her death this morning from the Walt Whitman Bridge.

• Village hires new chief (The Times-Reporter)

  Newcomerstown Village Council hired Gary Holland of Fostoria, who is police chief at Bettsville and has been in law enforcement for 18 years, as police chief.

• Pearl Allen, 79, a 'great encourager' of her children (Philadelphia Daily News)

  PEARL ALLEN was a product of the racially segregated schools of Georgia, and came to Philadelphia to find a better life.