The Daily Numbers: 2 separate rallies set for this coming Saturday on gun issues. Both gun control advocates as well as gun rights groups will converge on the Providence Friends Meeting House in Media.
7 miles from Chester to Media, how far the gun control advocates will hoof it on their march and rally.
2 months, how long the new director of the Chester County SPCA lasted. He was let go last week.
11, age of little Sarah Murnaghan of Newtown Square, whose push last summer has led to a permanent change in the way organ donations are allocated.
36, age of banker from Radnor who was sentenced to 23 months of intermediate punishment for posing as a teen girl online to solicit photos of young girls online.
166 page report issued by Attorney General Kathleen Kane on the investigation into Jerry Sandusky saga.
2 new victims alleged by Kane, but not included in the report.
2 West Nile Virus instances detected in Delco.
1.15 billion dollar shortfall looming over the Pa. budget process, which is starting to heat up in Harrisburg.
30 June at midnight, deadline for having a budget in place. It’s not expected that the Legislature will hit the mark.
28, age of man Philly police are charging in brutal rape of a woman in her Rittenhouse Square apartment.
503,000 dollars ripped off by a Philly lawyer from the estates and trusts of former clients. He got 2 years in prison.
9.82 decline for the stock market yesterday.
4.9 percent increase in sales of existing homes in May.
59.93 average temperature across the globe in May. That sets an all-time record, topping the old mark set 4 years ago.
600 jobs being slashed by Avon Products.
24.7 million people around the world who tuned into that 2-2 tie between USA and Portugal in World Cup play Sunday.
18.2 million on ESPN alone.
18 goals and 16 assists in 74 games last year for R.J. Umberger, who comes back to the Flyers in a deal for Scott Hartnell.
157 goals in 517 games for the popular Hartnell for the Flyers.
4-0 loss for the Phillies to the Marlins last night.
7 hits, all the Phils could muster.
3 of the hits for Cody Asche.
3 straight losses for Phils after winning 5 straight on road.
2 runs on 3 hits surrendered by Phillies starter Roberto Hernandez.
Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Why can’t the Phillies win at Citizens Bank Park. It used to be their secret weapon. It is becoming instead their Waterloo.
I Don’t Get It: When do you think most criminal suspects are going to figure out just how much of our lives is being captured on videotape.
Today’s Upper: Kudos to little Sarah Murnaghan, the Newtown Square girl whose push to change organ donation allocations was made permanent yesterday.
Quote Box: “We believed making lungs from donors 12 and older available to children under 12 who are good candidates to receive them was the right thing to do. We very much appreciate that the medical community now agrees with that.
- The Murnaghan family of Newtown Square.
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