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City and county police in Anderson County are investigating claims that armed robbers are now making house calls.

Six video poker machines and about $1,500 in cash were seized Wednesday after a Honea Path man allegedly volunteered to keep a gambling operation going at the house of his brother, who was out of town, according to officials.

STAMFORD - A four-alarm blaze destroyed the Fireside Restaurant in Springdale early this morning and displacing eight people who live above the popular Hope Street eatery.

This morning's snow forced the Phillies ballgirl tryouts in the basement of Citizens Bank Park, where there are available batting and fielding facilities.

A burglar was shot and killed last night in a South Philadelphia rowhouse after waking a homeowner.

A dog's bark is being credited for saving 3 people early Friday morning as fire was destroying a mobile home near Jockey Lot, costing a couple at least one of their pets and possessions, officials said.

A woman was injured about 9:15 a.m. Friday when a tractor-trailer truck slammed into her Cadillac in downtown Anderson.

It began as light scattered flurries yesterday, but by this morning up to four inches of snow had fallen in parts of the Philadelphia region.

The teacher who was assaulted by students at Germantown High School on Wednesday had refused to let the teens in during class - possibly to attack another student - and was later beaten after class, a district spokesman said this morning.

STAMFORD - Three Stamford teenagers pleaded guilty in state Superior Court on Thursday to robbing a Chinese restaurant delivery man and beating him in May.

NORWALK - A former Westport Fire Department union treasurer accused of improperly using his union credit card for 87 visits to bars and restaurants and purchasing Internet pornography avoided jail after pleading guilty to reduced charges Thursday.

STAMFORD - A consultant hired by the city to investigate the response to an Oct. 4 house fire in North Stamford criticized volunteer departments Thursday for failing to call for backup sooner and failing to establish a command post.

STAMFORD - For children living nearby, the new environmental magnet school is farther away than it seems.

WASHINGTON - Sixty-four years after his plane was shot down over Hungary, Staff Sgt. Martin Troy was buried Thursday with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, a rite that brought together out-of-touch family members united by a common link: They remembered the tall, handsome airman who left Norwalk to fight in World War II.

STAMFORD - A Stamford man pleaded guilty Thursday to fatally stabbing a 21-year-old Greenwich woman in the hallway of a Stamford hotel last year.

Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one lucky turkey, but the video that shocked some viewers captured what was happening in the background.

A coroner says an inflamed heart muscle likely brought on by an intestinal virus is what killed a 14-year-old Quakertown student who collapsed during soccer practice in August.

Police say they plan to charge a school bus driver with endangering a 10-year-old boy by braking suddenly so the boy would fall down.

DARIEN - A longtime landmark and piece of Americana soon will be erased as Howard Johnson's Inn and Restaurant on Ledge Road is demolished to make way for a Whole Foods Market.

If you're feeling blue about psoriasis, Taiwanese researchers suggests that Indigo naturalis, a dark-blue plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, may offer some relief.