The Daily Numbers: 384,433 registered voters eligible to go to polls on Tuesday for Primary Election.
15 percent - maybe - number that will actually vote.
2 seats on County Council up for grabs in November, along with 3 row offices and 2 seats on the county Court of Common Pleas.
4 candidates seeking those seats on the bench. It's the only contested countywide race this year.
10,000 dollars, how much you can win by playing our new game, the Stash the Cash Giveaway. There are also great weekly cash card prizes.
170th commencement at Villanova University held Sunday.
296 grads at Haverford who picked up their diplomas on Sunday.
900 graduates at Immaculata.
400 grads who picked up their sheepskins at Cabrini.
20,000 price tag for the 'Today in America' video about Media Borough. It's set to debut this week.
1 winning ticket sold in the Powerball jackpot Saturday night. It's worth $590 million.
1.2 million dollar loss for the Philadelphia Flower Show this year. The boss of the Philadelphia Horticultural Society, which puts on the show each year, believes local TV forecasters calling for snow scared people off.
225,000 attendees at this year's show. That's down 12 percent from the year before, despite the fact that it run 1 more day.
64 percent hike in number of suburbanites living in povery, according to new study.
6.2 percent in Delco living in poverty. That's up from 7.0 percent, an uptick of 1.7 percent in the decade from 2000 to 2012.
21, age of college student from Skippack who has been missing since he was spotted just 30 miles from his home as he drove home from college. Matthew Royer has not been seen since early Friday morning.
2 solo home runs in the 9th inning that powered the Phils to a 3-2 win over the Reds yesterday at Citizens Bank Park.
3-2 homestand for the Phils, who now head to Miami for 3-game series.
2 players battling injuries who will get MRIs today. Ryan Howard has a sore knee; Carlos Ruiz tweaked a hamstring.
Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
No one was happier when Freddy Galvis hit that walk-off homer than Cliff Lee. The pitcher had been inserted as a pinch-running, and then promptly got picked off. When Erik Kratz followed with a homer, instead of a walk-off two-run dinger, it only tied the game. Galvis got Lee off the hook.
I Don’t Get It: Let's change our state slogan, 'Welcome to Pennsylvania, World's Worst Weather 365 days a year.'
Today’s Upper: Kudos to all those college grads who picked up ther diplomas this weekend. Hopefully they all have jobs and can start digging out from the mountain of student loan debt most of them are facing.
Quote Box: “Inspired by Mother Cabrini and her sisters, we leave Cabrini with a deeper understanding of our interconnectedness to the world."
- Catherine Matta, valedictorian at Cabrini College on Sunday.
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