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Monday May 9, 2005

MOVE:

A mellower MOVE today

When Fran Opher's mother, Pauline, died on March 8 at age 85, some Kingsessing Avenue neighbors took time to visit her daughter and note the passing of one of the block's oldest residents.

MOVE:

The MOVE Disaster: May 13, 1985

Day that forever changed the city

Tuesday April 12, 2005

MOVE:

Jury verdict will push city costs from MOVE bombing to nearly $43M

$12.8M for Osage Residents

MOVE:

MOVE block residents awarded $12.83 million

Twenty years after the MOVE bombing, the price tag for the debacle keeps rising, with a federal jury yesterday awarding the last 24 residents of the West Philadelphia block about $530,000 each and handing a stinging rebuke to Mayor Street.

Friday April 1, 2005

MOVE:

Philly Mayor Testifies About MOVE Disaster

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Mayor John F. Street testified the city had a "moral obligation" to help families who lost homes in the MOVE fire, but he couldn't answer key questions about its efforts to repair damage from one of the sorriest events in city history.

MOVE:

Families get day in court over MOVE disaster

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mayor John F. Street spent 90 uncomfortable minutes before a federal jury Thursday explaining how the city has treated families who lost their homes when police dropped a bomb on their neighborhood during a battle with the militant group MOVE.

Tuesday September 28, 2004

MOVE:

Slain ex-MOVE member’s father sues

The civil filing met a two-year deadline. No arrests have been made in the shooting of Jack Gilbride Jr.

Monday September 27, 2004

MOVE:

From gun ports to birthday parties: An activist group’s strange evolution

PHILADELPHIA - One day last spring, after Tony Allen decided he had wasted enough years in MOVE, he received the phone call he had been dreading.

Friday October 24, 2003

MOVE:

Talks of threats before slaying

Seventeen days before he was murdered, John Gilbride testified in court that a MOVE supporter had threatened to kill him.

Saturday September 27, 2003

MOVE:

Unsolved death angers MOVE, grieves parents

The sparse evidence collected after John Gilbride was fatally shot last year outside his Maple Shade apartment yielded little to help the detectives searching for his killer.

Monday September 15, 2003

MOVE:

Breaking silence over a son’s slaying

John Gilbride was shot last September amid a dispute with MOVE. The case is unsolved.

Saturday September 21, 2002

MOVE:

MOVE sympathizers stage Cherry Hill demonstration

Courier Post, Sep. 21, 2002

Wednesday September 18, 2002

MOVE:

Philly Radicals Fortifying House

AP, Sep. 17, 2002

Monday June 24, 1996

MOVE:

Philadelphia, city officials ordered to pay $1.5 million in MOVE case

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- Eleven years after police dropped a bomb on a row house occupied by the anti-government group MOVE, a jury has ordered the city of Philadelphia and two former city officials to pay $1.5 million to a survivor and relatives of two members of the group who died in the subsequent fire.

Tuesday May 14, 1985

MOVE:

Police Drop Bomb on Radicals’ Home in Philadelphia

50 to 60 Other Houses in Area Burn