The Daily Numbers: 125 foot tree that landed on a garage in Concord Township, squashing a ’56 Thunderbird that was kept inside.
16, age of Chadds Ford teen charged as an adult in the stabbing of another teen outside the MapleZone sports center in Bethel.
38 caliber handgun with 6 live rounds in the chamber found on an 18-year-old man in Chester.
4 armed men who invaded a home in the Bryn Mawr section of Radnor Township, tied up the family, and stole cash and a 52-inch TV.
250,000 dollars, how much a Broomall woman pleaded guilty to stealing from her boss yesterday in Montgomery County court. She also faces additional charges here of stealing from another employer, QVC.
22.6 decline in profits in the quarter for the 11 Atlantic City casinos. They took in $149 million, as opposed to $192 million in the same period the year before.
22 pervious arrests for the man now charged with assaulting a Philadelphia police officer during a shoplifting arrest.
11 homes burned in an arson fire in the Logan section of Philadelphia overnight.
5 arson fires in New Castle County, Del., in a span of just over 3 hours.
29 million dollars from a new federal program being eyed by SEPTA to implement their new ‘smart card’ technology for collecting fares.
80 million jackpot up for grabs Saturday night in the Powerball drawing after no one hit again last night.
87, age of man shot and killed outside his home in North Philadelphia last night.
350,000 a year, annual salary of Philadelphia Housing Authority boss Carl Greene. He’s taking a leave from the job in the wake of stories that he has failed to pay his own mortgage.
5,000 dollar reward posted for information on a suspected killer who escaped from custody in Philly last weekend.
100 layoffs now likely under the revised budget numbers rolled out by Gov. Ed Rendell yesterday.
100 consecutive sellouts for the Phils, which they will hit tonight vs. the Giants.
47 regular season sellouts in 33 years for the Phils at Veterans Stadium.
3 hits last night for Jimmy Rollins as the Phils rolled to an 8-2 win over the Giants.
0 for 7 slide broken by Chase Utley, who got his 1st hit since returning from thumb injury on a swinging-bunt single.
17-2, Phils mark at home since July 8.
2 game lead for the Phils over the Giants in the Wild Card standings.
2.5 games back of the Braves, where Phils sit in NL East standings.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.In case you didn’t notice, the Eagles broke camp yesterday up at Lehigh. Talk about a team that is on the back burner.
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I Don’t Get It: Police say a teen charged with stabbing another teen in Bethel licked the blood off the knife to show how tough he was. I don’t’
get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the citizens of Chester, who will gather one final time this afternoon in the last of a summerlong series of anti-violence rallies held by Mayor Wendell Butler.
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Quote Box: “I always liked the T-Bird – when you’re a kid, you don’t have the money.”
- Concord resident Jim Waters, on his 1956 Thunderbird that was crushed when a massive tree fell on the garage that housed it.
16, age of Chadds Ford teen charged as an adult in the stabbing of another teen outside the MapleZone sports center in Bethel.
38 caliber handgun with 6 live rounds in the chamber found on an 18-year-old man in Chester.
4 armed men who invaded a home in the Bryn Mawr section of Radnor Township, tied up the family, and stole cash and a 52-inch TV.
250,000 dollars, how much a Broomall woman pleaded guilty to stealing from her boss yesterday in Montgomery County court. She also faces additional charges here of stealing from another employer, QVC.
22.6 decline in profits in the quarter for the 11 Atlantic City casinos. They took in $149 million, as opposed to $192 million in the same period the year before.
22 pervious arrests for the man now charged with assaulting a Philadelphia police officer during a shoplifting arrest.
11 homes burned in an arson fire in the Logan section of Philadelphia overnight.
5 arson fires in New Castle County, Del., in a span of just over 3 hours.
29 million dollars from a new federal program being eyed by SEPTA to implement their new ‘smart card’ technology for collecting fares.
80 million jackpot up for grabs Saturday night in the Powerball drawing after no one hit again last night.
87, age of man shot and killed outside his home in North Philadelphia last night.
350,000 a year, annual salary of Philadelphia Housing Authority boss Carl Greene. He’s taking a leave from the job in the wake of stories that he has failed to pay his own mortgage.
5,000 dollar reward posted for information on a suspected killer who escaped from custody in Philly last weekend.
100 layoffs now likely under the revised budget numbers rolled out by Gov. Ed Rendell yesterday.
100 consecutive sellouts for the Phils, which they will hit tonight vs. the Giants.
47 regular season sellouts in 33 years for the Phils at Veterans Stadium.
3 hits last night for Jimmy Rollins as the Phils rolled to an 8-2 win over the Giants.
0 for 7 slide broken by Chase Utley, who got his 1st hit since returning from thumb injury on a swinging-bunt single.
17-2, Phils mark at home since July 8.
2 game lead for the Phils over the Giants in the Wild Card standings.
2.5 games back of the Braves, where Phils sit in NL East standings.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.In case you didn’t notice, the Eagles broke camp yesterday up at Lehigh. Talk about a team that is on the back burner.
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I Don’t Get It: Police say a teen charged with stabbing another teen in Bethel licked the blood off the knife to show how tough he was. I don’t’
get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the citizens of Chester, who will gather one final time this afternoon in the last of a summerlong series of anti-violence rallies held by Mayor Wendell Butler.
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Quote Box: “I always liked the T-Bird – when you’re a kid, you don’t have the money.”
- Concord resident Jim Waters, on his 1956 Thunderbird that was crushed when a massive tree fell on the garage that housed it.
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