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6 ABC anchor/reporter Lisa Thomas-Laury says she was lucky to escape injury in a car accident Friday in Ardmore. Thomas-Laury's cream-colored Porsche Cayenne SUV was struck by another car near County Line and Roberts roads. She was thankful that her airbag deployed and that she was wearing a seat belt, the veteran broadcaster told us when we contacted her after hearing of the accident. "It looks worse than it is," she said about a bruise on her head. She said a first-responder told her she would have been much worse off if she hadn't been driving an SUV. She was taken to Paoli Memorial Hospital in a neck brace.

ARDMORE NATIVE and "Office" actress Kate Flannery is sad that it's the last season of the long-running NBC series, but very happy to return to host TV Guide Channel's "StandUp in Stilettos. " The second season of the female comedy show premieres at 11 p.m. Nov. 10. Flannery is no stranger to stand-up herself. She performs regularly in a lounge act called "The Lampshades. "   Food Network casting call Are you the "Next Food Network Star"? The Food Network show is holding an open casting call from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. next Thursday at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel (12th & Market)

Constance Flynn Lagerman, 90, of Bryn Mawr, a former board member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Ardmore, died Saturday, Sept. 29, at her home. Mrs. Lagerman was on the church's executive committee for more than five decades and served as a reader and Sunday school teacher, her son, Richard, said. Born in Haverford, she attended what was then Harcum Junior College. The daughter of William S. Flynn, architect of several golf courses in the Philadelphia region, Mrs. Lagerman in recent years presented the winner's trophy at the annual Flynn Cup tournament, which takes place at a different course each year, her son said.

AT 10 P.M. Sunday, the 10-year-old boy and his father should have been sharing a bedtime story or late-night snack. Instead, they shared a horrific experience neither is soon to forget.   According to township officials, the boy stabbed his 32-year-old father in the neck at the Ardmore apartment they share. The man was rushed by ambulance to Paoli Memorial Hospital, where he was recovering Monday. Meanwhile, his son was in the custody of family members, according to Thomas Walsh, spokesman for Lower Merion Township.

Myron D. "Mike" Moss, 60, of Ardmore, music program director and associate professor at Drexel University, died Monday, July 2, at Bryn Mawr Hospital after suffering a heart attack. Mr. Moss was a scholar of concert band music by African American composers. His University of Michigan doctoral dissertation on the subject won the 2006 Fritz Thelen Prize, an international award for wind music research. In February, he conducted the Drexel University Concert Band at the Kimmel Center, performing various works by black composers.

If 13-year-old Christian wrote a book about his life, the theme would be this: "No matter what predicament you are in, you can achieve whatever you want. Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't. "   What Christian, now living with a foster family, wants to achieve is what Kevin Mosley has had for nearly 40 years — a family that endures. The two do not know each other, but they share at least one bond. The matchmaker that helped put the then-2-year-old Mosley together with his adoptive mother is the same one helping Christian find a permanent home.

SAN FRANCISCO - All championship-round grounds tickets for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday during the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore are sold out, the USGA said Sunday. They do remain for the first round Thursday, June 13, but it's expected that they will only be available for a short period of time. Also, limited Trophy Club and 1895 Club tickets remain. The prices range from $110 for Thursday grounds up to $385 for weekend 1895 Club. Each buyer may purchase up to four tickets for each day. All tickets include complimentary parking and shuttle transportation to and from the entrance.

AGENDA What: 112th U.S. Open golf championship When: Thursday through Sunday Where: The Olympic Club, San Francisco TV: Thursday and Friday, ESPN (noon-3 p.m.; 5-10 p.m.), Channel 10 (3-5 p.m.) Saturday and Sunday, Channel 10 (4-10 p.m.) Defending champion: Rory McIlroy 2013 Open: Merion Golf Club, Ardmore

WITH THE longtime domination of the Broad Street Run by Kenyan athletes, what's left for area runners are top-10 finishes, maybe top fives. Michael McKeeman, of Ardmore, finished sixth Sunday in the Independence Blue Cross Broad Street Run in the highly respectable time of 49 minutes, 40 seconds. He was 2:34 behind winner Henry Rutto. McKeeman, 35, achieved his goal of finishing as the top American runner. "I was hoping I'd be the top American and have a top-five overall," McKeeman said.

Nine African American students from Ardmore are petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for a review of lower-court findings in their bias case against the Lower Merion School District. The students' attorney, David G.C. Arnold, filed notice of appeal Tuesday, in effect asking the nation's high court to reexamine a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the redistricting case. The Third Circuit found on Dec. 15 that a 2009 plan to assign the students to Harriton High School against their will did not violate their constitutional rights.