Yo, Philly in the News

• Debbi Fitzpatrick, the estranged wife of a former Philly DA, conned people in a rather inventive way: she got them to give her money to fund a performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" at the Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Thing is, no such performance was ever going to happen. She just pocketed the cash - over $500,000 of it. When she was found out, she paid back some, and a Cape May County judge promised to keep her out of jail if she could pay back the remaining $412,000. She didn't manage to raise the money this time and now she's looking at four years in a New Jersey prison. But maybe a masked man will kidnap her and take her away from all of that...
• PGW customers, rejoice! The company is cutting their rates by 4.5%, which should add up to an average of $82 in savings annually. Nice! Apparently the rate cut is just their way of passing on the lower cost of natural gas. Wait, since when has natural gas started costing less? Oh, right. That kind of gas...
• Ed Doty and Roger Wang, of University City and Fishtown respectively, were heading home from kayaking in New Jersey on Wednesday when they encountered traffic on the Ben Franklin Bridge, which isn't too unusual. But the cause was unusual: a two to three year old Chihuahua with a broken pelvis lying in the middle of the road. Doty and his friend saved the animal, but where it came from and how it got there is still a mystery. Doty suspects it was thrown from a car, which is apparently a growing problem. Thrown from a car? People are throwing dogs from cars now?! WTF!

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