Missing Student Wrongly Linked to Bombings, Locals Recount Marathon Terror Top Eastern Pa. News

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Missing College Student Wrongly Linked to Boston Bombing

It broke out on Facebook, Twitter and even Radnor Patch Thursday night— that one of the suspects in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing looked like missing Radnor High School alum Sunil Tripathi. However, the unconfirmed reports and speculation were wrong and Tripathi remains missing.

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'I Thought It Was Thunder,' Local Runner Says of Boston Marathon Blasts

Andrew Halloran finished the Boston Marathon Monday in a little over three hours. His sister Sarah hadn't yet finished her race, so he waited a block from the finish line with some other families.

And then came the explosions.

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2 Local Runners Escape Boston Marathon Blasts

Amy Gleason and Allison Zimmerman had just crossed the finished line.

Then minutes later, two bombs went off, and the two Forks Township women and their families were running for safety.

"It feels like the marathon was 10 years ago now," Gleason said during a phone interview from her Boston hotel room.

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Local Family Escapes Injury in Boston Marathon Explosion

A Middletown Township woman was congratulated by her husband and 6-year-old daughter minutes after finishing the Boston Marathon when they heard a loud noise that sounded like thunder from about two blocks away.

"We heard this horrible noise and I thought it was thunder for a second but then again there wasn't a cloud in the sky," Boston Marathon runner Gina Barusevicius, of Media, said.

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'What If I Had Slowed Down?' Local Boston Marathon Runner Asks

Boston Marathon runner Rabbi Seth Phillips ponders his fate had he not been inspired by a man running on a prosthetic blade. It may have saved his life. 

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Amtrak Train Kills Pedestrian in Bristol

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Northeast Regional Amtrak train heading south on Wednesday, according to an Amtrak official.

The accident occurred around 6 p.m. nine miles West of Trenton close to the Bristol station, according to Craig Schulz, an Amtrak Media Relations spokesman.

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$7M Mexico-to-Pennsylvania Meth Ring Busted, AG Says

Pa. Attorney General Kathleen Kane says narcotics agents have shut down a drug ring that distributed crystal meth from Mexico throughout the Lehigh Valley. Twenty-three alleged traffickers were arrested.

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Armed Police Could be Added to Schools

Would you feel comfortable with an armed police officer patrolling the hallways of Hatboro-Horsham School District schools? 

That possibility is one that administrators and the school board are mulling as they put in place a beefed-up security system and additional security personnel, Superintendent Curtis Griffin said during Monday's school board meeting.

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Scripps Heir Convicted for Embezzling Millions from Family

An heir to the Scripps media fortune was convicted last week by a federal jury in Philadelphia for embezzling $3.6 million from members of his family to fund his lavish lifestyle, according to New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman.

Michael Scripps, 36, of Detroit, was convicted of seven counts of wire fraud.

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Inmate Deaths in New York Lead to Investigation of Blue Bell Medical Company

Following critical reports by the New York Commission of Correction (COC) regarding the prison medical care provided by Blue Bell-based Correctional Medical Care Inc. (CMC), the Attorney General of New York has announced that his office has launched an investigation into the deaths of nine inmates over a three-year span.

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Local Boy's Death Inspires Good Deeds Nationally

After Gavin died on April 14, Kate asked followers on the Chasing Rainbows Facebook page to help others in Gavin’s name—find a special needs classroom in your community and donate toys you have lying around; help someone struggling to unload groceries; volunteer at a hospital; donate clothes to a women’s shelter; make dinner for a special needs mother in your family… and any other ways to positively impact peoples’ lives.

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Hot Dog! Wienermobile Rolls into Havertown

If you're driving around Delaware County or maybe in parts of Philadelphia late this week, keep an eye out for the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile.

The iconic hot dog-shaped vehicle is in the area spreading smiles, good will and little plastic whistle shaped like Weinermobiles.

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