Montco Man Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting Pregnant Girlfriend

Richard B. Gibson, 41, of Pottstown, will serve to nine-to-23 months in prison for punching his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach because dinner wasn't ready.

Reality TV Influences Baby Names

Social Security Administration has announced the top baby names for 2011 and some familiar TV personalities are represented.

  The Social Security Administration has released the top baby names for 2011. WTOP reported that the Social Security Administration’s findings have shown that girls names over the years are more volatile and change more easily, while male names have stayed more consistent. Nationally, the top five boys names in 2011 included Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. Mason is the largest jump from a rank of number 34 in 2009 to number 2 in 2011. The bump comes after Kourtney Kardashian named her son Mason in 2010. The name Michael has fallen to sixth place among boys names, the lowest for the name since 1948, according to the WTOP article. On the other hand, Jacob is the top name for boys for the 12th year in a row. Among girl names …

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Say Hello to My Little Friend

Baby Luke makes his long-awaited apearance.

Well, after his long-awaited arrival, he finally came. Luke Finley Hodell was born on Wednesday, Nov. 23, right in time for turkey. If you read my last column, you know how anxious we were all getting for him to come, and in his own time, just a day before his due date, he decided it was time. Luke was born at 8:57 a.m., after my sister decided to go into the hospital at 1 a.m. earlier that day. He was just 7 pounds and 2 ounces, and 19 inches long. What finally put her into labor? Likely it was the relaxing. She finally sat back Tuesday night and we watched two rented movies. In the middle of the second one, she said her contractions had continued, and she decided to retire for the evening to get some rest. That didn’t last too long. …

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