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Dad-of-six Christopher Williams, who spent 25 years on death row, was shot in the head after riding in a funeral procession for Tyree Little in North Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Lynette Reid doesn’t like clutter. She keeps a tidy home in western South Dakota, and is quick to toss out anything she doesn’t need. But for the past 12 years, she has held on to an old cardboard box in her garage.

PHILADELPHIA — The March 28, 1968, edition of the Camden Courier-Post carried, on page 38, a seven-paragraph story of some local interest, though it didn’t promise much more than that. Franco Harris, who lived in Mount Holly, N.J., and was the star fullback at Rancocas Valley Regional High School, had…

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge who once sparked controversy by jailing the rapper Meek Mill for probation violations has been transferred to civil court and had all of her pending criminal cases reassigned — a highly unusual move that the judge has called "unlawful" as she attempts to have it…