The Daily Numbers: 34, age of popular Collingdale store owner Yogesh ‘Yogi’ Bhavsar, who was gunned down in his store during a holdup.
2 suspects seen fleeing the store. They remain at large.
2,600 residents in Delco still without power after Hurricane Irene.
6,500 Peco customers across the region still powerless.
2 million people still without power up and down the East Coast.
2 people held for trial in the heartless killing of Aston landscaping foreman Andre DuPuis. He was apparently killed for his truck.
125,000 grant for the Chester Youth Collaborative.
8 counts of corruption to which former Pa. House Speaker John Perzel pleaded guilty to yesterday.
2 children stabbed to death in their South Philly home. Their mother has confessed to police.
4 year veteran of Philadelphia police now charged with sexually assaulting a woman in the back of his squad car.
19.3 inches of rain recorded at Philadelphia International Airport in August. That’s what we normally get in 6 months.
2 consecutive shutouts for Phils over the Reds.
4th and final Eagles exhibition game tonight vs. Jets.
40 games over .500 for Phils, at 86-46.
5-0 mark for Cliff Lee in August, with a 0,45 ERA.
5-0 mark for Lee in June, when he posted a 0.21 ERA.
2 earned runs surrendered by Lee in his last 39 and 2/3 innings.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay back to back. Doesn’t get much better than that.
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I Don’t Get It: A popular store owner is gunned down in the mdidle of the afternoon inside his store. Collingdale is stunned this morning.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the end of August. Good riddance. What a soggy want to end the summer.
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Quote Box: “To take his life is not real, it’s not fair. People are not thinking.”
- Carol Middletown, on the murder of store owner Yogesh ‘Yogi’ Bhavsar in his Collingdale store.
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