PHILADELPHIA — The oldest polar bear in the U.S. died Friday morning at the Philadelphia Zoo. She was 34. Zoo officials announced the death of Klondike, a female polar bear who was born at the Bronx zoo in 1980 and moved to Philadelphia in 1981, in a media release. While Klondike far surpassed the average polar…

Born: May 15, 1925
Died: October 22, 2015

 

S. May Porter (nee Leathern), on October 22, 2015, of Pitman Manor, formerly of Runnemede and Blackwood. Age 90. Devoted wife of the late Thomas J. Wilk, Jr. and John B. Porter. Beloved mother of Barbara Swope (Robert J. Melone), Tom Wilk (Elizabeth), and John M. Porter (Tina). Loving Grandmother of Danielle MacKay (James), Kathleen Porter, Maria Wilk, John C. Porter, Eric M. Porter, and Julia Wilk. Great-grandmother of Riley and Mason MacKay. Sister of Charles Leathern (Letty), Helen Miller, Joan Powell, the late Lester Leathern and William Leathern. Also survived by many nieces and nephews.

May was a member of the Runnemede Senior Citizens Club and a former parishioner and choir member at St. Maria Goretti Church.

There will be a viewing from 8:30am to 10:15am Tuesday morning at Gardner Funeral Home, RUNNEMEDE. Funeral Mass 11am at Holy Child Parish, St. Maria Goretti Church, 321 Orchard Ave, Runnemede. Interment New St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bellmawr.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in May’s name to the United Methodist Homes Fellowship Fund, care of Pitman Manor, 535 N. Oak Ave, Pitman 08071.

via www.gardnerfuneralhome.com

NEW YORK — One of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) top 10 most wanted human traffickers was extradited from Mexico Tuesday to face criminal charges in the Eastern District of New York.

October 23, 2015

Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today\’s New York Times on the subject of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s remark saying that Hitler got the idea of the \”final solution\” from Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem:

\”While it is a fact that Mr. Husseini met with Hitler in search of support,\” the Times editorial says, \”only a handful of fringe historians have claimed, with no evidence, that he planted the idea of the \’final solution.\’\”

source American Legion October 2015

With 67 representatives in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the storied history of American Legion Baseball alumni who have gone on to become successful ballplayers is well chronicled.

There are thousands of alumni, however, who have left the baseball field to become tremendously successful in other fields. These alumni will be the subject of a monthly series on how their time playing baseball molded them into the men they are today.

TRENTON – The Christie Administration today announced the state of New Jersey has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency\’s Clean Power Plan on the basis of its unlawful extension of the federal agency\’s authority, irreparable harm to the state if it can\’t manage its own energy future, and its unequal burden on states, like New Jersey, that have already significantly reduced carbon emissions.

By NICK DIVITO 

CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (CN) – A Long Island suburb that was once a hotbed for German-American Nazi sympathizers still flies a Hitler Youth flag above its clubhouse and fights to keep the neighborhood all white, a federal lawsuit claims.

Long Island Housing Services jumped in to represent homeowners Philip Kneer and Patricia Flynn-Kneer in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit filed Monday against the German-American Settlement League.

The Kneers say they\’ve been trying to sell their home in the Nazi-founded suburb of Siegfried Park in Yaphank, Long Island, for the past six years, but can\’t because of the group\’s strict rules designed to keep the neighborhood German.

PRIME HOOK, Del. (Oct. 23, 2015) – Although Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge will not be hosting waterfowl hunting this year due to an ongoing wetland restoration project, hunters will still be able to hunt from state blinds on the adjoining state-owned Prime Hook Wildlife Area and, like last year, participate in blind drawings at the federal refuge’s check station, DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife announced today.

Newswise — A research team working in the Galapagos Archipelago has discovered there are two species of giant tortoises — not just one, as had been long believed — living on the island of Santa Cruz in the center of the Galapagos Archipelago.

The discovery of the new species, (see photo) detailed in a study reported today (Oct. 21) in the journal \”PLOS ONE,\” is likely to help focus attention on the newly named Eastern Santa Cruz Tortoise (Chelonoidis donfaustoi), said Dr. James Gibbs, a team member and conservation biologist at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. Gibbs’ work on this discovery and others has been done in collaboration with the Galapagos National Park Service, Yale University and the Galapagos Conservancy.