Daily Numbers for Jan. 16

The Daily Numbers: 10,000 dollar reward for Upper Darby man who rescued 5-year-old girl on playground in Upper Darby.

4:40 a.m., when Nelson Mandela Myers came upon 5-year-old in Upper Darby playground.

10-2 Saturday, when Delaware County will hold a free flu shot clinic at Penn State Brandywine.

6-23 months for 2 Delco men who entered pleas to a sex romp with 2 15-year-old girls in a vacant Glenolden home.

350,000 dollar fire truck being purchased in Marcus Hook.

250,000 dollar  tax anticipation loan OK'd in Upper Darby.

61, age of former Chester Police chief Floyd Lewis, who died yesterday.

2.9 percent tax hike looming for taxpayers in Haverford School District.

50 million dollar gift for Swarthmore College from alum Eugene Lang.

23 minute taped confession from suspected killer of grandmother and infant in King of Prussia. The Montco DA will seek the death penalty in the case.

1 woman and 1 Democrat ever elected attorney general in Pa. Kathleen Kane took the oath of office yesterday.

2 other row officers who took the oath, Rob McCord for another term as treasurer, Ernest DePasquale as auditor general.

50 billion dollars in aid for Sandy-ravaged regions OK'd by the House yesterday.

100,000 veterans to be hired by Walmart.

25 counts of child porn filed against a 62-year-old man in Delaware.

2, age of flu victim who died in Delaware.

111-99 loss for the Sixers to the Hornets last night on their home court.

29 points for Jrue Holiday in a losing effort.

Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.

Gus is not on the bus. He's on a plane to Jacksonville. Gus Bradley has left Philadelphia without a deal to coach the Eagles. This is not good.

I Don’t Get It: He's a football coach, folks. Still can't believe they were following him in helicopters as they headed to the Main Line mansion of Jeff Lurie.

Today’s Upper: Who else? Huge thumbs-up to Nelson Mandela Myers, the sanitation worker from Upper Darby who found that 5-year-old girl on the playground.

Quote Box: “She had to be placed in that playground. We processed the area as a crime scene."

- Upper Darby top cop Mike Chitwood, on discovery of abduction victim in township playground.

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