The Daily Numbers for May 3

The Daily Numbers: 4 police officers suspended in Colwyn Borough in investigation of Tasering of handcuffed teen in holding cell.
1 officer reinstated to run the department.

1 state of emergency in the tiny borough. Swell.

1 million dollar literacy grant for Chichester schools. For a refinery battered by the possible closings of local refineries, that’s great news.

7 dollars worth of hash browns that sparked a melee in a Wawa in Brookhaven.

92,485 dollar contract awarded by County Council for heating oil for 7 county park buildings.

16.5 million dollar renovation of Nether Providence Elementary School that is moving forward.

0.724 mill tax hike being considered in preliminary budget in Penn-Delco School District.

23 Catholic priests in the archdiocese whose fate remains up in the air. They were suspended in the wake of the second grand jury report into sexual abuse by priests. Hundreds of priests attended a meeting yesterday at Cardinal O’Hara High School. The archdiocese has scheduled a press conference Friday.

214 million dollars raked in off slots at Pa. casinos in April.

1.3 percent increase from the same month in 2011.

7.6 percent decline in slots revenue at Harrah’s Chester, soon to be Harrah’s Philadelphia.

119.9 million dollars paid for the famous painting ‘The Scream.’

248 million dollars in earnings reported by Sunoco, which announced this week it was being sold for $5.3 billion to a Texas pipeline company.

101 million dollar loss reported a year ago by Sunoco, which has since moved to get out of the money-losing refining business.

15-13 loss in extra innings for the Phils last night in Atlanta.

6-0 lead blown by Phils’ ace Roy Halladay. Then he blew an 8-6 lead as well.

8 runs and 12 hits surrendered by Halladay, who did not get out of the sixth inning.

1.95 to 3.40, what the outing did for Halladay’s ERA.

107-0, Halladay’s record before last night when staked to a 4-run lead.

7 runs batted in for Carlos Ruiz, who had a homer and a double.

3, as in Game 3 for the Flyers and Devils tonight in North Jersey.

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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Is anyone else ready to get worried about Roy Halladay, or was that just one of those blips that happens from time to time?







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I Don’t Get It: Can someone tell me how a town the size of Colwyn manages to have the kind of problems it deals with constantly?



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Today’s Upper: Kudos to Chichester School District, which snagged a $1 million literacy grant.



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Quote Box: “A situation like this needs to be taken seriously. It just really bothers me something like this can happen.”



- Colwyn Mayor Dan Rutland, on probe into Tasering of teen in a borough holding cell.

Comments

C said…
1 Heck of a fine Newspaperman.