The Daily Numbers: 21, age of mother who now faces charged in connection with a photo of her daughter in which the tot is duct-taped to a chair.
0 bail set for the woman by Magisterial District Judge C. Walter McCray.
160 jobs on the chopping block at Alloy Surfaces in Chester Township 5,900 workers at Boeing in Ridley, about one-third of them involved in the V-22 Osprey program. The tilt-rotor has defeated another try to kill funding by Congress.
5.61 million dollars in revenue from table games at Harrah’s Chester Casino in January. That’s down from $6.04 million in December.
9,577 people in Delaware County who use LIHEAP funds to help pay their heating bills. Funding for the program will be drastically reduced under President Obama’s budget.
3 priests suspended from ministry by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia as sexual abuse complaints against them are reviewed.
37 instances of priests in active ministry with complaints against them that will now be reviewed by the archdiocese.
50,000 dollars paid to a Drexel Hill man by Sea Isle City in N.j. to settle a police abuse lawsuit.
2 Borders stores in the region that will be closed by the bookseller, which filed for Chapter 11 yesterday. The stores are in Oxford Valley Mall and King of Prussia.
200 stores overall will be shuttered by the struggling company.
9 people indicted for murder in the case of a couple found buried in the yard of a Camden home.
9 and 10, ages of kids allegedly used by adults to try to get pounds of pot out of a home in Southwest Philly without being detected. The marijuana was found stuffed in their backpacks.
5 adults now charged in the case; $10,000 seized from inside their home.
9.99 cents per kilowatt hour request to PUC by Peco for electric service. That’s up from 9.92 cents currently.
30 cents a month, what it will cost the average electric customer.
27-29 record for the Sixers at the All-Star break after they beat the Rockets last night, 114-105. Last year they won 27 games all year.
19-6-3 road mark for the Flyers, who won again in Florida last night.
31 days until the first day of spring. Don’t forget to take part in the Great Heron’s Nest Snow Prognosticating Contest. Guess the number of measurable snows between now and March 20. I say 9. We’ve had 3, and there is more on the way tonight.
70 degrees a distinct possibility for Friday.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.The Phillies put single-game tickets on sale this morning at 8:30. They were expected to be snapped up in about a half-hour. They will sell out their entire home schedule again this year.
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I Don’t Get It: Duct-taping a child to a chair. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Have to admire the way Dallas Green dealt with yesterday’s difficult situation in which he returned to Clearwater and met with media for first time since his granddaughter was killed in the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz.
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Quote Box: “She is not guilty. She loves her daughter very much.”
- Carlita Ferguson, talking about her daughter Caira, charged in connection to picture of child duct-taped into a chair.
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