The Daily Numbers: 1 person shot in a drive-by shooting last night outside a Main Line tavern.
2,600 jobs at stake amid the possible closure of 3 local refineries, 2 in Delaware County. A group of local Congressmen and women are seeking a federal report on the economic and energy fallout of a possible closing.
4,000 dollar cut in tuition being adopted by Cabrini College for the fall 2012 semester. That’s a 12.5 percent cut.
28,090, instead of $32,266, what it will cost to attend Cabrini. The cuts will remain in effect until 2015.
17, age of Paige Daluisio, sworn in this week as a junior member of the Interboro School Board.
20, age of college student from Delco who now faces charges that he posted a sex video of him and his girlfriend on the Internet because he was upset that they had broken up.
1 million dollar grant for Philabundance from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The money will be used toward establishing the non-profit’s supermarket in the city.
10.6 percent cut in electric rates for PECO customers on Jan. 1.
500,000 dollar annual pension that is due to fired Penn State coach Joe Paterno when he finally retires.
2 people wounded when bullets shattered windshield of car in Wilmington last night.
2-0 start for Villanova men’s hoops after they beat La Salle in OT last night.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Andy Reid and DeSean Jackson not on the same page. I’m shocked, just shocked I tell you.
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I Don’t Get It: You break up with your girlfriend so to get back at her you post a sex tape on the Internet. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their $1 million grant to Philabundance, which will be used to set up the non-profit’s plan for a supermarket in Chester.
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Quote Box: “I can tell you when you cut through the numbers they do very much realize that there are real families and real people behind these numbers.”
- U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan, talking about possible closure of three local refineries.
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