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• Monica Yant Kinney: Teen's anti-bullying plea makes its debut
  For a world premiere, STOP's was low on ego. It helps that the feature presentation was a public service announcement conceived of and directed by an unassuming 13-year-old victim of bullying.


• On the calendar, winter. In the garden, spring.
  Nancy Sakaduski's homegrown daffodils are already spreading cheer from a vase on her kitchen table, which would be dandy - and not unusual - if it were spring.


• Child killed in North Philadelphia crash
  A 4-year-old boy was killed in a two-vehicle crash Sunday morning in North Philadelphia, near North 24th and West York Streets, police said.


• Cops: Teens beat cabbie and passenger
  In a horrific assault in Center City Saturday night, three teenagers who were spouting off racial slurs pulled a man out of a cab to beat him and when the cab driver intervened to stop the assault, the teens turned their rage on him, according to police.


• Two dead in Kensington crash
  The driver and a passenger were killed in a one-vehicle crash early Sunday morning in Philadelphia's Kensington section, police said.


• Worker accused of stealing $1 million from archdiocese over six years
  As an employee of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Anita Guzzardi, was considered a trusted servant of the church. Once, she headed an office that tried to restore the faith of strayed Catholics.


• Academy of Music keeps its 155th-anniversary party right at home
  For as long as anyone can remember, the last Saturday night in January has played out in the same slightly paradoxical way for Philadelphia's Grand Old Lady of Locust Street.


• Wildwood may tiptoe toward beach fees
  WILDWOOD - Come next year, Wildwood may no longer be able to market its famously free beach. The Cape May County resort's status as one of a handful of Jersey Shore destinations that do not require beach tags is advertised to would-be tourists from Florida to Quebec.