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Wayne >> Radnor police are investigating an armed robbery at the Rite Aid drug store, 237 E. Lancaster Ave. in Wayne early Tuesday morning. According to police, a male entered the store Nov. 21 at 2:46 a.m. and pretended to make a small purchase. Once the cash drawer was opened, he displayed a handgun from the inside of his jacket.

Nothing says economic security like jammed roads around Thanksgiving.According to AAA Mid-Atlantic, you can expect to see plenty of them this year, along with long lines at the airport.Nationally, nearly 51 million people will travel, the highest Thanksgiving travel volume since 2005.

Good Morning. Here are some of the top stories from around the region.WEATHERToday will be more mild than yesterday with mostly sunny and breezy conditions with a high of 58 degrees. Tonight will be cloudy with a low of 46 degrees.CLICK HERE to check your local forecast.

NORRISTOWN >> An investigation into the police shooting of an armed suspect in a King of Prussia Mall parking lot has concluded the shooting was a lawful use of force. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele announced the results of the investigation Monday and revealed the Upper Merion Police Officer involved has been cleared for regular duty.

HARRISBURG >> As Thanksgiving nears, the PA Turnpike Commission (PTC) is projecting that 3.55 million cars and trucks will travel the Turnpike during the six-day period, beginning Tuesday and ending Sunday."We appreciate that family, friends, food and festivities are the focus of the Thanksgiving holiday season," said Mark Compton, PTC CEO.

CHESTER >> Area businesses are still coming to grips with the new monthly fee slapped on them - as well as residents - by the Stormwater Authority of Chester, the city's newest authority, which will begin charging property owners in December. Based on an assessed size of private residences around the city, larger business will incur greater charges on the space they occupy - the larger the footprint, the greater the cost.

UPPER DARBY >> Clyde's Home Supplies was more than a local hardware store in Upper Darby. Sure, it had nails, screws and all the equipment you'd need to complete a home project, but it was filled with one thing that couldn't be bought or fixed: Love. First, there's a love of family which is found in the father-son team of Sam and Kevin Clyde, who have owned and operated Clyde's for the past 12 years.

SHARON HILL >> As dozens of spectators lined the room, about eleven senior models, dressed in fall finery, strutted their chosen ensembles during the second annual fashion show Friday at the Mercy LIFE adult day center, 701 Chester Pike. "This is the second year that we've done a fall fashion show," explained Shalani Colon, a recreational therapy aide at Mercy LIFE.

It's getting to where you can't keep track of the lechers, gropers and sexual abusers without a scorecard. Once one of these sexually tinged moral panics we have so frequently gets going, there's no telling whose squalid little sins will be exposed to public view.If nothing else, they start a lot of titillating conversations.

RIDLEY TOWNSHIP >> Commissioners at their November meeting approved an ordinance rezoning a portion of Mann Park from MunicipalUse to C-2 Zoning, paving the way for a new commercial development on MacDade Boulevard at Kedron Avenue (Route 420).The property is owned by the township and the portion rezoned is a little more than one-half acre.