The Daily Numbers: 23, age of woman rescued from raging floodwaters that engulfed her car on Bethel Road last Friday.
5 to 6 inches of rain that fell on the county Thursday night into Friday – sparking widespread flooding.
680,000 vehicles sold in the summer of 2009 under the federal stimulus Cash for Clunkers program.
1.6 million in federal stimulus funds used by Delaware County Community College to balance its budget.
11, age of child allegedly used by an Upper Darby woman as a shield from being Tasered during confrontation with police.
80 percent tax hike proposal continues to raise eyebrows in Sharon Hill.
3.2 million dollars in grants headed to William Penn School District.
2 people killed – including a woman who was acting as a Good Samaritan – by an elderly neighbor wielding an assault rifle in Little Egg Harbor, N.J.
3 credit card companies being sued by the feds for anti-competitive practices. Visa and MasterCard have settled; American Express is fighting it in court.
23 million dollar fine to be paid by a West Chester firm for illegally testing bone cement on patients, 3 of whom died in surgery.
4.3 percent uptick in home sales in August, an increase but still 20 percent below the pace of the previous year.
7 pounds of pot seized and 2 people busted in Ocean City, N.J.
3 people, a mother and her 2 little girls, killed in a house fire in Delaware City, Del.
2 people found dead after fire roared through a home in Hilltown, Bucks County.
67, age of man in Newark, Del., charged with killing his wife, also 67.
5 million dollars in revenue in the first week of operation of slots at SugarHouse casino in Philadelphia.
60 people to be hired at a new Krispy Kreme outlet in Northeast Philly, as the chain re-enters the local market.
60, age of man found beaten outside Temple Hospital last night. He later died.
241 per square mile to 35 per square mile, reduction in deer herd hoped for in hunt set for Valley Forge National Park.
1-2 weeks, what Michael Vick told a Virginia radio station last night he might be out with rib problems.
1 more day until the Phils kick off the postseason with their NLDS against the Cincinnati Reds.
5-2, regular season record for the Phils vs. the Reds.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
We survived the end of the Donovan McNabb Era. And the great Donovan McNabb reunion. We even managed to live through the aborted Kevin Kolb Era, which lasted all of one half. But can we survie the redux, now that the savior, Michael Vick, is apparently on the shelf with a rib injury?
Stay tuned.
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I Don’t Get It: A former custodian at a New Jersey hospital has been charged with sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled woman in the hospital’s morgue. Talk about creepy. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the Ogden, Reliance and Upper Chi firefighters who took part in the water rescue of Christine Pekala in last Friday’s raging flood. Well done.!
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Quote Box: “My whole life flashed before my eyes. It’s so funny, you hear people say that and see it on the movies, but it’s true.”
- Christine Pekala, on her rescue from flood waters.
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