The Daily Numbers: 1 more day until the Phillies and Giants tee it up in Game 1 of the NLCS.
5 major sporting events over 2 days at the South Philly sports complex. Temple football, Flyers, Phils, Eagles and then Phils again.
10-20 years in prison for Stephen Fischere in the beating death of his 4-year-old stepson.
6 more weeks, how long alums of Bonner and Prendie have to raise $500,000 in pledges.
2 women captured on videotape stealing a Halloween display in front of Cocco’s Pizza in Primos.
2 Chester residents who say they will hold a protest tomorrow outside PPL Park at the Union game to show their irritation at the city’s continuing lack of a supermarket.
108 employees who will gather in the parking lot of the Broomall Pathmark today for the last time. The store is closing.
500 people who showed up for a job fair yesterday at Springfield Country Club.
2 new polls that show Democrat Joe Sestak gaining ground on Republican Pat Toomey.
10 point spread for Toomey in the latest Rasmussen Poll released yesterday.
3 polls out yesterday that basically show a dead heat in the bitter battle between Democrat Bryan Lentz and Republican Pat Meehan in the 7th District Congressional race.
3 billion dollars in savings for Pa.’s 2 financially ailing public employee pension plans under a measure passed by the Senate yesterday.
5 percent increase in electric rates on Jan. 1 being set by Peco Energy Co. as rate caps are lifted.
2 men convicted of federal hate crime charges in the beating death of an illegal immigrant in Allentown.
90 days probation for a Philly teen convicted of shining a laser in the eyes of a helicopter pilot.
3-2 loss for the Flyers last night in the return of Simon Gagne to the Wells Fargo Center in the uniform of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
0 points scored so far this year by Gagne.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.The eyes of the sports universe will be on us this weekend. Let’s show the world the passion that makes Philly the best sports town in the planet.
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I Don’t Get It: A cat was discovered in Atlantic City with an arrow shot into its face. The kitty will survive.
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Today’s Upper: Two words. Red October. You can feel it in the streets.
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Quote Box: “I have no soul and my heart is an empty hole.”
- Barbara Grogan, mother of 4-year-old murder victim Zander Grogan, at yesterday’s sentencing for his kiler, her former boyfriend.
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