The Daily Numbers - April 8

The Daily Numbers: 0 runs scored by the Phils last night, as they fell 4-0 to the Braves.
0, also the number of wins the Phils have compiled so far in defense of their World Series title.
2 times the Delco D.A. has now filed first-degree murder charges against a Sharon Hill mother in the stabbing death of her daughter. The first time they got tossed by a magisterial district judge. The D.A. has refiled them.
100,000 dollars cash, amount of bail for a Collingdale man charged with beating his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter. That’s down from $500,000. He waived his preliminary hearing and will face trial.
75,000 dollars, 10 percent of the $750,000 bail that may be forfeited by hit-run suspect Lemuel Payne after he was found at a Philly nightclub last weekend. The D.A.’s office is moving to revoke bail.
17, age of Upper Darby teen who police believe accidentally shot his brother during a street fight. Police say the suspect was pistol-whipping another youth when the gun went off, wounding his brother.
1,100 dollars – all in pennies – raised by the kids at Annunciation BVM School in Haverford to help the Philly Police Hero Survivors’ Fund. Guess you could call it Pennies from Heaven.
16,156 arrests for DUI made by Pa. state police last year, that’s a new record high.
87,000 dollars, amount believed stolen from a fund for a police group by a former officer in Bucks County. She was found dead yesterday, hours before she was to be sentenced in the case.
1 million dollars, amount believed fleeced from members of a South Jersey church by a Phoenixville man via phony real estate schemes.
2 Philly casinos that may now be up and running by next year after being mired in controversy and protest.
33 percent of all murders in Philadelphia happen between March and October, and 50 percent of those occur between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m. Police will target those hours in a new program called “Operation Pressure Point.”
1 woman killed when flames roared through a row home in North Philly Tuesday night.
4 of the 9 free concerts put on by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Fairmount Park being cut this year because of budget deficits.
33 percent of the nation’s teachers who will retire in the next 4 years as Baby Boomers get ready to leave their jobs.
3 instances where thieves have targeted cars in Wawa parking lots in Bensalem. They are hitting women’s cars and taking pocketbooks left in the car while the women run into the store.
2 students at Newark High School in Delaware charged after bringing a loaded gun into the school.
1,250 jobs being cut by Citizens Financial, parent company of Citizens Bank.
9,000 jobs being shed by Royal Bank of Scotland.
1 run scored by the Phillies in 18 innings so far this year.
1 pitch, all it took for the Phils to fall behind the Braves last night after Jamie Moyer tossed a home run ball to open the game.
2-1 win for the Flyers last night, which locks up a playoff spot.
98 points for the Sixers, not enough to beat the Charlotte Bobcats. They lost 101-98.

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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.OK, give out the World Series rings already. Then maybe the Phils can snap out of their championship funk and begin to display the grit that led them to the crown last October.
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I Don’t Get It: You have to wonder what Lemuel Payne was thinking. He was supposed to be on home monitoring as he awaited trial in the hit-run death of a Ridley teen. Instead police busted him at a Philadelphia nightspot. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to Jack Shingle, the longtime Upper Darby coach and pal of the Police Athletic League. You can’t count the number of young lives he’s touched.
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Quote Box: “We feel the evidence supports the charge of first-degree murder.”
-- Assistant District Attorney Michael Mattson, on the office’s move to reinstate more serious charges against a Sharon Hill mother in the stabbing death of her daughter.

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