The Daily Numbers: 45, age of Rutledge Mayor C. Scott Shields, who died Friday in a skydiving accident.
12, age of girl in Radnor charged with using a tree branch to beat a fellow female student she was fighting.
48, age of Collingdale firefighter charged with a lewd act in the parking lot of a local Walgreen’s drug store.
32 years since we first became intimately familiar with the idea of a nuclear accident, at Three Mile Island outside Harrisburg.
600 deer culled during a recent hunt to thin the herd at Valley Forge National Historical Park.
19, age of woman believed kidnapped at gunpoint in Atlantic City
2 dollar surcharge being slapped on fares on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry.
16 percent decline in shares of Tasty Baking Co. yesterday. The parent company of Tastykakes continues to teeter on the edge of financial ruin.
100 mile relay that ended with hundreds of students protesting yesterday in Harrisburg against proposed education cuts by Gov. Tom Corbett.
21 points for Thaddeus Young as the Sixers upset the Chicago Bulls at home last night, 97-85.
5 home losses for Bulls, including last night’s stunner by the Sixers.
46 degrees tonight when the first pitch is thrown out in the first of two On Deck games for Phils vs. the Pirates.
49 degrees and rain in the forecast for Friday, opening day vs. the Astros.
3 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.Does it make sense to anyone that the Phils spend a month playing in gorgeous sunshine and warm temperatures, only to come north and kick off the season in miserable cold, rainy weather? Why doesn’t Major League Baseball schedule at least the opening week in good weather cities?
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I Don’t Get It: A pilot discovered a hole in the fuselage of a US Airways flight from Philly to Charlotte. That’s not a good thing.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the Chester Clippers, PIAA AAAA boys hoops champions. For the 7th time!!
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Quote Box: “Scott loved what he was doing. He loved his friends, he loved the law, he especially loved skydiving.”
- Art Shields, father of Mayor C. Scott Shields, at memorial service held in Rutledge last night.
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