The Daily Numbers - Feb. 24

The Daily Numbers: 3 people shot inside the R-S Club in Ridley early Sunday morning. Now a Chester man is being sought.


50,000 dollars cash bail for the former Ridley teacher wanted in a series of burglaries. He was arrested in New Jersey.


5 cars broken into along Lancaster Avenue in Radnor as diners ate in restaurants.


2 years, how long a priest suspected of abusing a child remained in service at his parish after being ordered by the Philadelphia Archdiocese to leave.


100 dollars a barrel, price of crude oil yesterday, as the price of gas at the pump hit $3.20 across the nation.


4 dollars a gallon, what some experts believe we could be paying by Memorial Day.


107 point decline on Wall Street yesterday. That makes the worst 2-day dip in 6 months.


15 busted for racketeering in connection with a huge drug bust in Camden.


60 computers stolen from West Philadelphia High School.


1 dog shot and killed by police who raided the wrong home in Philly during a drug bust.


1 game below .500 for the 76ers, who unloaded on the hapless Washington Wizards last night, 117-94.


20 points for Jrue Holiday; 18 points and 10 boards for Thaddeus Young.


25-16, Sixers record since starting the season 3-13.


7-20 mark for Phil Martelli’s Saint Joe Hawks, who lost to Umass last night.


24 days until the first day of spring. Here’s where we stand in the Great Heron’s Nest Snow Prognosticating Event. I said we’d have 9 snows between now and March 20. We’ve had 4, but this is one bet I’d gladly lose.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Mike Schmidt had some tough love for Jimmy Rollins yesterday. I hope the star shortstop was listening.


 


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I Don’t Get It: A priest was allowed to stay in a parish for nearly two years after he was accused of abuse in the archdiocese. I don’t get it.


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Today’s Upper: What a great gizmo that led to the arrest of the former Ridley teacher wanted in a series of burglaries. He was stopped in Jersey after a tag reader in the officer’s patrol car noticed the tag number and that it turned up on the wanted list. Nice work.


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Quote Box: “In D.C., you don’t have the same degree of control over your time.”


- Congressman Pat Meehan, talking about his new hectic lifestyle on our “Live From the Newsroom” Internet broadcast last night.

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