The Daily Numbers - June 15

The Daily Numbers: 21, age of suspected killer Taaqi Brown, who was mistakenly released from Delaware County Prison last night.
100 people were in an Upper Darby park in May 2009 when Brown is alleged to have opened fire on a crowd, killing an unintended victim. No one came forward with information for police.
2, age of Terrence ‘Pop’ Webster, who was fatally wounded as he was being held in his father’s arms.
438 graduates who picked up their diplomas from Haverford High School Monday night.
4-2 vote by which Eddystone council last night gave preliminary land development OK for a firm to move a metal-shredding business into the borough. The move has sparked intense community protest.
15,000 dollars alleged to have been stolen from the Upper Darby Home and School Association by a former trusted worker.
2.9 percent tax hike given the final OK by Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board in aproving their $64 million spending plan.
72 teacher layoffs tabled by the school board in Easton last night as they grappled with a budget deficit.
2 more young boys who have come forward to alleged they were inappropriately touched by a former teacher’s aide at St. Eleanor School in Collegeville. The man already faces charges in 3 other instances.
9, age of youngest victim in a string of rapes that have residents of a Wilmington neighborhood on guard.
7, age of youth struck by a SEPTA bus Monday night in Northeast Philly.
63 pounds of cocaine seized in packages with bananas found on a boat at the port of Wilmington.
13 dead or dying cats found in the home of a woman in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County.
72, age of woman in Cherry Hill charged with trying to hire a man to beat up her ex-husband and their two children.
3 game set, a rematch of last fall’s World Series, kicks off tonight at Yankee Stadium between the Phils and Bronx Bombers.
2 aces on the hill tonight, Roy Halladay for the Phils, CC Sabathia for the Yanks.
70 to 95 bucks, how much you’ll have to shell out for a single game Eagles ticket. They go on sale this morning at 10 a.m.

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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Gut-check time for Phils starting tonight vs. Yankees. They need to win this series. Or consider shaking things up.
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I Don’t Get It: There was a holdup in Wilmington. The target? A parish priest. The thief left with the church’s poor box because the priest didn’t have any cash on him. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Someone please tell me it was not more than three decades ago that I sat in a packed JFK Stadium to see Peter Frampton and Yes.
They play the Tower Theater in Upper Darby tonight.
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Quote Box: “I hope somebody speaks up on behalf of a 2-year-old.”
- Thomas Webster, father of 2-year-old murder victim Terrence ‘Pop’ Webster.

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