The Daily Numbers: 2 Delco high schools who will play for state basketball titles this weekend. The Chester High boys and Carrolls girls both will be seeking AAAA crowns.
2 Delco teams who fell in last night’s semifinals. Penn Wood dropped a tough OT decision to Mount Lebanon, and Delco Christian fell, 52-48, to Steelton-Highspire.
50,000 dollar bail for a Megan’s Law offender in Upper Darby where police seized a cache of weapons.
2 U.S. airmen rescued from Libya after they ejected from the fighter jets by crew in a V-22 Osprey.
100,000 dollar lottery jackpot claimed by a woman in Aston.
250,000 winning ticket sold at a store in Essington.
50,000 dollars in lunch money believed stolen by a cafeteria employee in the Garnet Valley School District.
64, age of Darby Township woman killed in a crash on the Route 1 bypass in Upper Providence yesterday morning.
15 sessions held by Springfield zoners in controversial huge billboards being proposed in the township. They will vote on the plan tonight.
79, age of film goddess and Hollywood icon Liz Taylor, who died yesterday.
30 homes damaged by tornado in western Pennsylvania.
60-foot plunge down an embankment for a young driver in Bucks County who lost control of her car on a curve, went through a fence and off the road.
3 council members in Philly who can stay on the ballot, according to a judge’s ruling that rejected an attempt to boot them because they took controversial DROP retirement payouts.
28, age of state trooper from Philly who now faces charges of theft.
Authorities say he was ripping people off during traffic stops.
1 more weird injury for Phils yesterday after starter Roy Oswalt was beaned by a line drive off the bat of Manny Rodriguez. Oswalt seems to be OK.
8 days until opening day at Citizens Bank Park.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.I said yesterday that I liked Leonard Weaver. I still do, maybe even more so now that the Eagles fullback has apologized for comments equating the NFL labor impasse with slavery.
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I Don’t Get It: Maybe the Phils should just pack things up and head north now. They seem to get another key player hurt every day in Florida.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the much-maligned V-22 Osprey, which was key in rescuing the crew from a downed fighter jet in Libya.
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Quote Box: “I loved both men in different ways.”
- Theresa Murphy, on stand at the murder trial of her former husband Sean Burton, who is charged with killing her boyfriend.
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