The Daily Numbers: 2 tours of Iraq for Rep.-elect Nick Miccarelli, the winner of the battle for the 162nd District seat. His Pa. Guard unit is headed back to Iraq in February. Be safe, soldier.
800 workers at Wells Fargo Auto Finance’s operations at the Wharf at Rivertown in Chester. The firm announced it would scale back operations, including layoffs, just before Christmas.
19, age of University of Pennsylvania student from Rose Valley who died after a fall from a dorm.
25 homicides for the city of Wilmington in 2008. That’s a record high. The latest fatal shooting took the life of a 20-year-old Chester resident, who was found shot to death on the front porch of a home on Concord Avenue.
13 to 20 years in jail, the sentence for millionaire killer John E. du Pont. He was rejected in a plea for parole.
400 million dollar dip in their endowment at Swarthmore College. They are putting in place a halt in hiring and other cuts in the wake of the economic downturn.
1,400 laptop computers, one for every student at Chester Community Charter School, through the non-profit group One-Laptop-Per-Child, and the school’s owner Vahan Gureghian.
446 to 615 million dollars, how much state hospitals say Pennsylvania owes them in a flap over a fund that helps doctors pay for medical malpractice insurance.
2 alarm blaze in a Bucks County firehouse after a car slammed into the facility in Hilltown Township. The driver of the car died in the crash.
50 patients being moved out of a Montgomery County personal care home after the state shut down Willow Crest Manor yesterday.
3 people nabbed by the feds during a drug raid targeting the high-grade heroin trade in Northeast Philadelphia yesterday.
83 warrants and 88 arrests served yesterday during another drug raid in the city, this one in the area of West Indiana Street.
220 million dollar expansion unveiled yesterday at Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
300,000 dollars in prize money the city usually gives the Mummers for prizes in their annual strut down Broad Street that won’t be coming this year. It’s another victim of budget cuts. Oh dem not-so-golden slippers.
35,000 jobs being axed by Bank of America as part of its merger with Merrill Lynch. Some of those will come in operations in both Philadelphia and Wilmington.
2 cent dip overnight in the average price of gas at the pump in the region. We’re now paying $1.80 a gallon, but it can be found in lots of places for as little as $1.69.
14 billion bailout that went up in smoke late last night as a deal to help the ailing auto industry ran off the road in the Senate.
4 goals down, where the Flyers were last night before roaring back and posting an unlikely 6-5 win over the Hurricanes in a shootout.
3 goals for Scottie Hartnell to lead the orange and black back from a 5-1 deficit.
18 points for Scottie Reynolds as Villanova edged Saint Joe’s in the latest classic edition of the Holy War at the Pavilion last night.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.There’s a new Public Enemy No. 1 in the Big Apple. And he wears Phillies pinstripes. Move over, Jimmy Rollins, Cole Hamels just took the target off you and put it squarely on his broad shoulders. The Phillies ace went on a New York sports radio program yesterday and was led right down the path into doing something you usually avoid: Providing bulletin board material for your foes. Hamels was asked if he thought the Mets had choked the last two years. He kind of indicated that he did. So the announcer sought to make it clear, and Hamels walked right into it. He pronounced that yes, the Mets were chokers. Throw another log on that Mets-Phils rivalry.
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I Don’t Get It: What exactly does Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich not get? He needs to step down. The sooner the better.
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Today’s Upper: Let’s hear it for Nick Miccarelli. The newly elected state rep in the 162nd District is being deployed to Iraq with his Pa. National Guard Unit. It’s a more important mission than anything he would be doing in Harrisburg.
Quote Box: “For the past two years they’ve been choke artists.”
-- Phillies ace Cole Hamels, on a New York radio station yesterday, describing the Mets.
800 workers at Wells Fargo Auto Finance’s operations at the Wharf at Rivertown in Chester. The firm announced it would scale back operations, including layoffs, just before Christmas.
19, age of University of Pennsylvania student from Rose Valley who died after a fall from a dorm.
25 homicides for the city of Wilmington in 2008. That’s a record high. The latest fatal shooting took the life of a 20-year-old Chester resident, who was found shot to death on the front porch of a home on Concord Avenue.
13 to 20 years in jail, the sentence for millionaire killer John E. du Pont. He was rejected in a plea for parole.
400 million dollar dip in their endowment at Swarthmore College. They are putting in place a halt in hiring and other cuts in the wake of the economic downturn.
1,400 laptop computers, one for every student at Chester Community Charter School, through the non-profit group One-Laptop-Per-Child, and the school’s owner Vahan Gureghian.
446 to 615 million dollars, how much state hospitals say Pennsylvania owes them in a flap over a fund that helps doctors pay for medical malpractice insurance.
2 alarm blaze in a Bucks County firehouse after a car slammed into the facility in Hilltown Township. The driver of the car died in the crash.
50 patients being moved out of a Montgomery County personal care home after the state shut down Willow Crest Manor yesterday.
3 people nabbed by the feds during a drug raid targeting the high-grade heroin trade in Northeast Philadelphia yesterday.
83 warrants and 88 arrests served yesterday during another drug raid in the city, this one in the area of West Indiana Street.
220 million dollar expansion unveiled yesterday at Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
300,000 dollars in prize money the city usually gives the Mummers for prizes in their annual strut down Broad Street that won’t be coming this year. It’s another victim of budget cuts. Oh dem not-so-golden slippers.
35,000 jobs being axed by Bank of America as part of its merger with Merrill Lynch. Some of those will come in operations in both Philadelphia and Wilmington.
2 cent dip overnight in the average price of gas at the pump in the region. We’re now paying $1.80 a gallon, but it can be found in lots of places for as little as $1.69.
14 billion bailout that went up in smoke late last night as a deal to help the ailing auto industry ran off the road in the Senate.
4 goals down, where the Flyers were last night before roaring back and posting an unlikely 6-5 win over the Hurricanes in a shootout.
3 goals for Scottie Hartnell to lead the orange and black back from a 5-1 deficit.
18 points for Scottie Reynolds as Villanova edged Saint Joe’s in the latest classic edition of the Holy War at the Pavilion last night.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.There’s a new Public Enemy No. 1 in the Big Apple. And he wears Phillies pinstripes. Move over, Jimmy Rollins, Cole Hamels just took the target off you and put it squarely on his broad shoulders. The Phillies ace went on a New York sports radio program yesterday and was led right down the path into doing something you usually avoid: Providing bulletin board material for your foes. Hamels was asked if he thought the Mets had choked the last two years. He kind of indicated that he did. So the announcer sought to make it clear, and Hamels walked right into it. He pronounced that yes, the Mets were chokers. Throw another log on that Mets-Phils rivalry.
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I Don’t Get It: What exactly does Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich not get? He needs to step down. The sooner the better.
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Today’s Upper: Let’s hear it for Nick Miccarelli. The newly elected state rep in the 162nd District is being deployed to Iraq with his Pa. National Guard Unit. It’s a more important mission than anything he would be doing in Harrisburg.
Quote Box: “For the past two years they’ve been choke artists.”
-- Phillies ace Cole Hamels, on a New York radio station yesterday, describing the Mets.
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