The Daily Numbers -- Jan. 16

The Daily Numbers: 570 million dollars, the magic threshold for revenue from the state’s new gambling meccas we needed to hit for property tax to kick in. We made it this week.


540,000 senior citizens in Pennsylvania who received help with their tax bills last year under the Property Tax and Rent Rebate program.


5 armed robberies targeting women that are plaguing a Darby Borough neighborhood.


16 year-old reported in critical condition this morning after a shooting last night in Darby Borough. The incident happened at 10th and Summit.


174 times a Chester man stabbed his pal, killing him. Yesterday Lawrence Tucker was sentenced to life plus 3 to 7 years in jail.


20 to 40 years in the slammer for a man who terrorized several employees at a Chadds Ford Wawa.


29 of the Philly hopefuls who were part of the first night of ‘American Idol’ who were invited to Hollywood later this year. Thousands showed up last summer for the tryouts.


12 hour ordeal suffered by a 16-year-old Philadelphia teen abducted on her way to school. A man has been held for trial in the attack.


50 million bucks, what the former boss of Commerce Bank is now seeking from his old pals in a lawsuit filed over his dismissal.


45 year-old woman and her 50-year-old husband who fended off a hammer-wielding intruder in their Avondale, Chester County, home. Both suffered stab wounds.


1 man army now under arrest. That’s how cops refer to a man suspected of running a large-scale drug operation in Southwest Philly.


56 combat missions flow in the Iraq War by W. Craig Williams, the assistant U.S. attorney from Concord who’s been tapped by the Delco GOP to challenge U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak.


125,000 dollars, awarded to a former student in Pottsgrove who claimed the school district failed to act on warnings about the teacher she became sexually involved with. The teacher is from Delaware County.


15 year-old girl who was severely slashed in a fight with other girls outside West Philadelphia High School. The girl’s mother now says school officials ignored her warnings of potential violence.


100 million cut in state government administrative costs ordered by Gov. Ed Rendell as he previews what could be a fairly bleak budget.


30 of January, that could be doomsday for many commuters as Amtrak, the nation’s rail system, braces for a possible strike.


1 vet against another in the 8th Congressional District in Bucks County. Thomas Manion, a recently retired colonel in the Marine Reserves whose son Travis was killed in Iraq, plans to challenge Democrat Rep. Patrick Murphy, the only Iraq vet serving in Congress.


24 minutes, how long it took a Bucks County jury to convict a man charged with first-degree murder.


7 game skid snapped last night by the Sixers, who rallied from a big deficit to topple the Rockets in Houston.


92 points put up last night by a very impressive Chester Clippers squad that routed Glen Mills, 92-49.


6 game losing streak snapped by La Salle last night, in posting their first Big 5 win in 7 years, as they beat Penn at the Palestra.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
What do you think the over-under on the temperature is going to be for this weekend’s NFC and AFC title games? They’re expecting single digits in Green Bay. In New England, it will be positively balmy, in the teens. The Green Bay game will not start until after dark. We’re talking Ice Bowl II.
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I Don’t Get It: Call them the new Broad Street Bullies. Or maybe Bull-ettes. Police say a wolf pack, mostly girls, is preying on those riding the Broad Street subway, in particular the Erie and Olney stops. They’re swiping anything they can get their hands on, in particular electronics like iPods, cell phones and laptops.


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Today’s Upper: Vet vs. Vet. Sestak vs. Williams. Start the campaign.


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Quote Box: “Our voice in Congress is telling the world, telling Congress itself, telling the nation … and, I believe most importantly telling our troops, that this war is lost.”

-- GOP candidate W. Craig Williams, who will challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-7, in the fall.

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