The Daily Numbers: 3 more days before the Flyers kick off their Stanley Cup finals series with the Chicago Blackhawks. Plenty of time to get Flyer-ed up.
92, expected high temperature today. Welcome to summer. The record high for the day is 96, set back in 1880.
1 year since “Biker Mike” lost his life on the Conchester Highway.
Family and friends gathered yesterday to honor his life.
10 years in the making for the new Boothwyn Elementary School, which was showed off to the public last night.
2.9 percent tax hike on tap for residents in the Garnet Valley School District.
21, age of New Jersey man charged with vomiting on a family at a Phillies game in April. He pleaded guilty yesterday.
13 point lead for Repubican Tom Corbett over Democrat Dan Onorato in one of first polls on Pa. gubernatorial race after the primary.
25 dollar limit on bets at table games, which are set to make their debut in Delaware casinos this week.
1,200 National Guard troops being sent to the Mexico border to crack down on immigration violators.
3 hours, how long a sleeping passenger was left on a United Airways Express flight from Washington, D.C., after it landed in Philly.
360, as in U2’s summer blockbuster 360 degree tour. It’s been canceled because of lead singer Bono’s back surgery. That includes the July 12 show at Lincoln Financial Field.
380,000 Philadelphia residents who tell AAA they will travel 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend.
1, age of tot killed when fire swept through a Bucks County home. Two others were injured.
44-3 vote in the Pa. Senate for a bill to bar teens with junior driver’s license from using cell phones of sending text messages while driving.
2 replicas of Christopher Columbus’ famous ships, the Nina and Pinta, that are open for tours at Penn’s Landing.
2 straight losses for the Phils, both to knuckleballers. They fell 8-0 to the Mets last night.
28 of last 29 innings the Phils have gone without scoring.
13 runners left on base by the Phils.
39 degrees, record low for a Super Bowl played outside, back in 1972 in New Orleans. That likely will fall in 2014 when the game is played outdoors in the new stadium in the Meadowlands in North Jersey.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.So do you think the layoff hurts the red-hot Flyers? And did Captain Mike Richards make a mistake in handling the Easter Conference Champion trophy? Those are the questions you get when there is 5 days between games.
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I Don’t Get It: I still find it hard to believe that regardless how inebriated you are, you could consciously make yourself throw up, and then do just that on a family sitting in front of you. Nice.
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Today’s Upper: Welcome to summer. It’s expected to hit the low 90s today. Don’t forget the sunscreen.
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Quote Box: “I do think it would be helpful if Joe would be more forthcoming and clear the air, but I’m not going to dwell on this.”
- Republican Pat Toomey, on questions surrounding Democrat Joe Sestak’s claim he was offered a job by the White House in exchange for getting out of the race against Arlen Specter.
92, expected high temperature today. Welcome to summer. The record high for the day is 96, set back in 1880.
1 year since “Biker Mike” lost his life on the Conchester Highway.
Family and friends gathered yesterday to honor his life.
10 years in the making for the new Boothwyn Elementary School, which was showed off to the public last night.
2.9 percent tax hike on tap for residents in the Garnet Valley School District.
21, age of New Jersey man charged with vomiting on a family at a Phillies game in April. He pleaded guilty yesterday.
13 point lead for Repubican Tom Corbett over Democrat Dan Onorato in one of first polls on Pa. gubernatorial race after the primary.
25 dollar limit on bets at table games, which are set to make their debut in Delaware casinos this week.
1,200 National Guard troops being sent to the Mexico border to crack down on immigration violators.
3 hours, how long a sleeping passenger was left on a United Airways Express flight from Washington, D.C., after it landed in Philly.
360, as in U2’s summer blockbuster 360 degree tour. It’s been canceled because of lead singer Bono’s back surgery. That includes the July 12 show at Lincoln Financial Field.
380,000 Philadelphia residents who tell AAA they will travel 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend.
1, age of tot killed when fire swept through a Bucks County home. Two others were injured.
44-3 vote in the Pa. Senate for a bill to bar teens with junior driver’s license from using cell phones of sending text messages while driving.
2 replicas of Christopher Columbus’ famous ships, the Nina and Pinta, that are open for tours at Penn’s Landing.
2 straight losses for the Phils, both to knuckleballers. They fell 8-0 to the Mets last night.
28 of last 29 innings the Phils have gone without scoring.
13 runners left on base by the Phils.
39 degrees, record low for a Super Bowl played outside, back in 1972 in New Orleans. That likely will fall in 2014 when the game is played outdoors in the new stadium in the Meadowlands in North Jersey.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.So do you think the layoff hurts the red-hot Flyers? And did Captain Mike Richards make a mistake in handling the Easter Conference Champion trophy? Those are the questions you get when there is 5 days between games.
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I Don’t Get It: I still find it hard to believe that regardless how inebriated you are, you could consciously make yourself throw up, and then do just that on a family sitting in front of you. Nice.
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Today’s Upper: Welcome to summer. It’s expected to hit the low 90s today. Don’t forget the sunscreen.
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Quote Box: “I do think it would be helpful if Joe would be more forthcoming and clear the air, but I’m not going to dwell on this.”
- Republican Pat Toomey, on questions surrounding Democrat Joe Sestak’s claim he was offered a job by the White House in exchange for getting out of the race against Arlen Specter.
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