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Three men held up an armored car at a TD Bank in Abington Township. No word on how much the thieves wrangled from the car.
The Philadelphia Parking Authority will expand cab service to work throughout the city during the Local 234 strike.
Two holes-in-one on the same hole? Maybe these guys should have played the lottery on their way home.
Governor Ed Rendell has dropped his proposed tax on natural gas pulled from the Marcellus Shale. The delay comes with the hope that it can help the state's budget crisis.
Governor Rendell is all fired up about the people who are still questioning President Obama's citizenship. We're kind of tired of the story ourselves, so we appreciated where he was coming from when he referred to these protestors, or "birthers," as being "absolutely nuts."
Where will Vince Fumo serve his prison sentence? That's for the federal Bureau of Prisons to decide.
Governor Rendell will sign a temporary budget next week that will allow most state workers to get paid. The temporary budget does not, however, include funding for things like education, health care, and human services.
Pennsylvania state schools have announced another hike in tuition. If you're a Temple student this means that undergraduate tuition increases from $10,858 to $11,174 for in-state students and from $19,878 to $20,454 for out-of-state students.
Archaeologists in Fishtown have uncovered 25,000 artifacts from a property once owned by butcher Godfrey Remer. In pits that were used as dumpsters, various items were found including: a painted peralware bowl from England, a chamber pot, a piece of a flute-like recorder.
Operation Pressure Point was successful again this weekend. The Philadelphia Police and federal agencies arrested and charged nearly 100 people with weapons, drugs and assault offenses after raids this weekend.
Chairwoman Sandra Dungee Glenn lost her position within the Philadelphia School Reform Commission. Glenn's departure means that all ties to the former Philadelphia Board of Education are lost. Mayor Nutter and Governer Rendell plan to unveil their selections to replace Dungee Glenn and three others on Saturday.
For those of you who think that gambling is the only way to make a quick buck, think again; a couple stole $15,000 by robbing 60 Coca-Cola machines at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. Authorities are on the search for the woman and her male companion.
Elton Brand is looking like yet another big money bust for the Sixers. The $80 million forward is going to have season-ending shoulder surgery on Monday.
A Hatboro branch of TD Bank was robbed yesterday. The robber is thought to be the same man who robbed another TD Bank branch this week, according to the FBI. If you see a white male in his early 40s, ~6' tall, weighing between 160 and 170 pounds, he may be the robber. Look out for brown eyes, short brown hair (receding) with a small bald spot on top, an olive complexion and a goatee.
The former sales manager of the reigning Arena Football League champion Philadelphia Soul says that Jersey son Jon Bon Jovi owes him close to $125,000 in back wages and sales commissions. Joseph Krause filed suit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to get what he is owed.
Mayor Nutter will ask a Common Pleas judge to reconsider her ruling that the administration can't close 11 libraries without City Council approval. He said that keeping the branches open would mean reduced service across the library system. "We only have a certain number of personnel to operate the 53 total branches, which will impact the level of service and continued service," he said. "That will cause us to have to cut back service days and programmatic activity." He also said that if the city has to keep all of the branches open it likely would mean more layoffs.
A scholarship program that has provided cash to nearly 13,000 Philadelphia high school students headed for college is coming to a sudden end. U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah told Mayor Nutter in a letter last week that he was disbanding the program, in part because of the mayor’s decision last month to cut the city’s annual contribution this year by $1 million. “Regretfully, the budget realities for the City of Philadelphia make it impossible to continue this effort,” Fattah wrote.
Bad news for Joey Chestnut: Wing Bowl, Philadelphia’s annual gluttonfest will be a local-amateurs-only event once again, WIP sports host Angelo Cataldi proclaimed this morning. Tickets for the Jan. 30 event will go on sale through ComcastTix at 10 a.m., Dec. 15.
A private eye testified yesterday that Fumo hired him to snoop on Ed Rendell, a long string of political enemies, his own son, an ex-girlfriend, a former wife, and two topless dancers.
The Fumo trial is already getting a little nasty, with the defense essentially accusing the prosecution of racism in its jury selection. (We also enjoy the headline of that article, because we misread it as "Fumo-in-law.")
Someone sent a threatening letter containing a suspicious substance to Barack Obama's South Philadelphia campaign office at 15th and Christian streets. The office was evacuated, but initial tests determined the substance was brown sugar. Meanwhile, McCain was unveiling his new plan for the economy in Montgomery County.
This weekend a number of political superstars will be coming to the region, including Sarah Palin, who'll be dropping the first puck at the Flyers' regular-season opener at the Wachovia Center.
NFL star Marvin Harrison was never charged in a North Philadelphia shooting this spring, even though various pieces of evidence seemed to point in his direction. Now the victim is suing Harrison over the incident.
Your deadline to register to vote in Pennsylvania in time for the presidential election is today. So if you're not registered yet, hop to it!
Meleanie Hain of Lebanon used to take her holstered Glock 26 handgun everywhere for personal security, but her concealed-weapons permit was revoked after other parents complained about seeing her carrying the loaded gun at her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game. She's fighting the revocation.
Authorities issued a warrant yesterday for Dorien Oberlton's arrest in the case of Tuesday's vicious beating of Eric Derrickson in an underground subway concourse. Several witnesses came forward to identify Oberlton, who apparently had a long-standing grudge against Derrickson for supposedly stealing his girl.
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- Ed McMahon, a native of the Philadelphia area, died this morning. McMahon, as a teenager, sold vegetable slicers on the Atlantic City Boardwalk and was an announcer at carnivals and bingos.
- Friends Hospital has replaced its CEO amid accusations of inadequate oversight of patients. According to Gary Brown, a spokesman for the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services, "we support the decision. There are long-standing concerns with quality of care that were not addressed."
- Democratic leaders in the Pennsylvania House and Senate support Governer Ed Rendell's proposal to increase the state's income tax. Rendell's proposal calls for an increase in income tax from 3.07 percent to 3.57 percent for three years to help close a budget gap projected to reach $3.2 billion.
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- Another story of sexual assault by a police officer has come to light. On the night of October 16, 2008, during a drug raid, Thomas Tolstoy allegedly lowered an unidentified woman's underwear and violated her.
- Vincent Fumo will find out just how long he has to spend in the hoosegow on July 14. U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter denied the Fumo team's request to delay the hearing without an explanation.
- Mayor Nutter has until Monday to submit a 2010 budget plan and five-year spending plan for review by the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority. The catch is that the city is waiting for some decisions from Harrisburg which it may not have when it has to submit its budget on Monday.
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This Phillyist would like to know who thinks feeding children is bad. Who, precisely, would look at a group of kids coming to school without lunch, and believe that it is okay for them to remain hungry?
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