The Daily Numbers - Oct. 29

The Daily Numbers: 50 mph, how fast a woman was believed to be driving yesterday as she went the wrong way, northbound in the southbound lanes of I-95 in Chester. She caused several accidents.


4,547.82, how much Pat Meehan filed for expenses for his four trips to the Pennsylvania Society dinners in New York City. The Bryan Lentz campaign is making an issue out of it.


60,000 contribution from Peco that resulted in a new playground in Chester yesterday.


1 man found stuffed in trunk of car in Chester yesterday.


48-40 percent lead for Pat Toomey over Joe Sestak in the U.S. Senate race, according to latest Muhlenberg College poll.


49-45 percent for Toomey, according to a CNN survey.


97 degrees, temperature outside last summer when an autistic man was left inside van for hours, leading to his death. The worker at the Montco facility where he lived was held for trial on manslaughter charges.


2 teens killed in a car crash in Delaware yesterday.


4,000 reward now posted for information on who is responsible to the brutal death and dismembering of a dog that was left on a woman’s porch in Philly.


5 years after he left town, Terrell Owens’ Moorestown mansion has finally sold. He bought it for $3.9 million; it was on the market for $4.4 million. Owens was paying $37,000 a year in property taxes


65 million dollar profit in the quarter posted by Sunoco.


1 woman killed and 1 teen found wandering on Schuylkill Expressway Wednesday night. The accident was not discovered until Thursday afternoon.


2 zip lead for the Giants in the World Series, after they hammed the Rangers, 9-0 last night. The Series now heads to Texas.


4 million dollar deal for Allen Iverson to play in Turkey the next 2 years.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.


There should be a law. The Eagles should not be allowed to take their bye week the week after the Phils are eliminated from the playoffs.


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I Don’t Get It: Driving north in the southbound lanes of I-95. Then disappearing after you cause several accidents. I don’t get it.


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Today’s Upper: Big-time kudos to the Peco workers who helped build a playground in Chester yesterday.


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Quote Box: “If you are not going to vote now, why did you vote two years ago?”


- Cheyney student at rally with Bill Clinton for Joe Sestak yesterday.

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