Yo, Philly in the News

• Scary story: a bus got out of control, apparently due to a mechanical problem of some kind, on the campus of Bucks County's Pennsbury High School and injured 17 students, one of them critically.
• Philly police have invited the family of Bryan Jones - the 20-year-old that cops shot during a New Year's Day gun battle - to meet with them, in order to discuss the details of his death.
• The cops need your help finding two criminals. One is responsible for two sexual assaults in North Philly - call the SVU at 215-685-3251 if you know anything. The other is a murderer named Quan Vo who frequents South Philly and Levittown - if you know anything about him you can call 215-686-3334 or -3335.
• Local radio station WHAT, known as the "Voice of the African-American Community," was sold to a new company in the latter part of last year, and Thursday morning they shut the station down and fired everybody. The station will come back, and it sounds like they may even rehire at least some of the old staff, but it's not clear what the new format will be. If you're interested, the Daily News has a handy history of WHAT.
• The Secretary of Education dropped in at a North Philly school (M. Hall Stanton Elementary, to be exact) Thursday morning to congratulate them on how well they're meeting the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law.
• A target letter that state Senator Vince Fumo received suggests that he may soon be indicted by a grand jury as the result of an investigation on his relationship with a South Philly charity.

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