The Daily Numbers: 10 years since Upper Darby Police Officer Dennis McNamara was gunned down in the line of duty.
25,000 donated to build a gym in his honor at the Upper Darby Police Administration building.
360 dollars stolen from the cash box at Maggie O’Neill’s in Drexel Hill. A former employee has been charged.
6.8 million dollars, how much Chester Community Charter School says the Chester Upland School District and state owe it. Commonwealth Court has nixed a request to make them pay up.
550 dollars, how much a company is ponying up to pay the cost of a flagpole in front of the Cheese Club in Haverford.
2.67 percent tax hike being eyed in Marple Newtown School District.
4-3 vote by which Parkside Council passed an ordinance limiting use of firearms outdoors.
12 suspects arrested in Chester County in what police are calling gang-related slayings in the southern part of the county.
98.78 per barrel, price for crude oil yesterday as it slipped below $99 a barrel.
100 million dollar asking price for Philadelphia Media Network, which owns the Inky, Daily News and Philly.com.
4 people bused in connection with the brutal attack on a cabbie in Burlington County, N.J.
3 teens charged with attacking a man was he got out of a cab at 15th and Chestnut streets.
20, age of man in Newark, Del., charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old woman and then throwing her out of a 2nd-floor window.
71,269 people who went through the doors on the first weekend of the Philly Auto Show.
74-69 win for the Sixers over the Magic last night.
9 points, what the Magic scored in the 3rd period.
38 percent, what the Sixers shot from the floor.
27 percent from the 3-point line; 53 percent from the foul line.
11-2 record for the Sixers at the Wells Fargo Center. They 15-6 overall.
16,299 people who went through the turnstiles to see the game.
12 noon, when Andy Reid will address the media for the 1st time since the Eagles’ inglorious end of the season, one in which they did not make the playoffs.
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Today’s Upper: The gym that was dedicated at the Upper Darby police department will make for a fitting tribute to slain Officer Dennis McNamara, gunned down 10 yeas ago.
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Quote Box: “We promised together that we would never gorget. Once again, we stand together to remember that wonderful person, husband, father, police officer Dennis was.”
- Upper Darby Mayor Tom Micozzie, in remembering Officer Dennis McNamara.
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