The Daily Numbers - March 1

The Daily Numbers: 2 teens’ deaths on train tracks in Norwood ruled suicides by the county medical examiner’s office.
1 suspect who stole the offertory collection Sunday at St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Drexel Hill.
3 candidates for the 7th District Congress seat who debated the issues last night in Springfield.
100 workers who were picketing this morning as the union went on strike against the Philadelphia Regional Produce Market in South Philly.
2, age of toddler police say was assaulted twice by a man in New Castle, Del.
1 person killed an 1 injured in a crash of an ATV in the Frankford section of Philly last night.
2 vehicle crash including an ambulance in Glenolden overnight.
6 to 4 percent, cut in state sales tax proposed by Gov. Ed Rendell, while expanding it to 74 items and services that are currently exempt.
14 percent increase in revenue posted by QVC in the 1st quarter.
700 people now believed killed in devastating earthquake in Chile on Saturday.
8.8 on the Richter scale, what the quake registered at.
2 people charged in beating death of man whose badly burned body was found in N.J.
200,000 people in the Northeast still without power in the wake of the latest snowstorm to rock the region on Friday.
4, age of child left behind by 2 suspects who robbed a Center City jewelry store on Saturday. They grabbed a tray with $100,000 worth of jewelry on it and took off.
1 person killed and 7 hurt in the crash of a van carrying Temple University dance team to a competition in North Carolina.
18, age of son of entertainer Marie Osmond, who police say took his own life by jumping from a downtown L.A. apartment building.
1, as in No. 1 in the Big 5 for Temple, who beat La Salle Sunday to take the city title.
23 pitches, all fastballs, thrown off the mound by Phillies reliever J.C. Romero Sunday. He’s coming back from injury. Brad Lidge also threw a session.

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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.If only all sports could hold the drama and passion of Sunday’s gold medal Olympic ice hockey game pitting the USA vs. Canada. In a word, it was electric.
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I Don’t Get It: A guy held up the collection basket at St. Andrew’s in Drexel Hill Sunday. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to all those who made their voices heard in the controversy surrounding St. Joseph’s School in Collingdale. It would seem the archdiocese heard you.
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Quote Box: “It doesn’t make sense to any of us.”
Kim Dorwart, mother of Vanessa Dorwart, one of two teen girls who took their own lives on the train tracks in Norwood last week.

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