The Daily Numbers - June 28

The Daily Numbers: 8 days, how long the sound of gunfire was absent from Chester’s streets after state of emergency was declared.
1 person found shot to death inside a car on Boyle Street in the city just before midnight last night.
18,500 people who made their way to PPL Park, the home of the Philadelphia Union, on the Chester waterfront yesterday.
0 incidents reported before, during or after the game.
34, age of woman charged with hatching a plot with her 22-year-old boyfriend to kill her husband, who owned a Chester County landscaping business.
8,000 Peco customers who were still without power Sunday, three days after that monster storm blew through the area.
5,500 people without power in the Downingtown area of Chester County after another storm hit last night.
97, high temperature today, with forecasters again calling for heavy thunderstorms to roll across the region this afternoon.
2 teens charged with firebombing a house in Upper Darby.
40, age of triathlete whose body was found after he went missing in Schuylkill River during competition in Philly over weekend.
4 stabbed to death in a rampage in Northampton, Pa., on Sunday.
5 people killed as 3 motorcycles struck a van in Lancaster County.
2 days until budget deadline in Pa., with progress reported, but no deal in sight.
4 alarm blaze that roared through an unoccupied warehouse in Philadelphia Sunday.
16, age of teen shot and killed on Coatesville street late Saturday.
2.78 a gallon, average price of gas in Philly region.
2.73, what we were paying last week. $2.73, what we were paying last July 4.
3-1 win for Union over Seattle Sounders in first game played in PPL Park in Chester.
7 strong innings for Jamie Moyer, who led the Phils to 11-2 win over the Blue Jays.
9 wins for the 47-year-old Moyer, who is threatening to make the All-Star team.

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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Whatever it is Jamie Moyer is using, he should bottle it. The fountain of youth? You could fool me.
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I Don’t Get It: A 34-year-old woman and her 22-year-old boyfriend are charged in a love triangle murder of her husband. He owned a landscaping business and the 22-year-old worked for him. Nice. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the 18,500 who witnesses history in the first-ever game played at PPL Park in Chester.
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Quote Box: “This was something that was part of our dream, just before the dream existed, just when we were the old-fashioned Sons of Ben, rooting for an MLS franchise to come into town.”
- Thomas Roletter, at Sunday’s Union game at PPL Park.

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