Yo, Philly in the News

• The Inquirer has a nice article about the Community College of Philadelphia's Gateway to College program, which helps dropouts earn high school diplomas and college credits at the same time.
• There were two car crashes last night involving police vehicles. A teenage girl accompanied by a 5-year-old stole a patrol car at around 5:40PM while the officer was interviewing a complainant on the 1200 block of Gilham Street. She dropped the child off with a relative before crashing the car around 20 minutes later, and then sat tight to wait for the police. She'll be charged with car theft. Meanwhile, at around 8PM a police wagon and another automobile collided at 50th and Westminster Ave., injuring four people, including two police officers. It's not clear yet who was at fault.
• "The Green Woods Charter School in Upper Roxborough is scheduled to receive a Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence today."
• We love stories about video games being used to help people heal, especially when they've got a local focus - like this one about the Voorhees Pediatric Facility for special needs children, which is "one of a growing number of health, education and youth programs using virtual-reality games and programs to achieve a varied array of goals."
• Tom Snyder, the news personality, late night TV host, and interviewer who was a Philadelphia news anchor in the mid-1960s, died Sunday in San Francisco due to complications from leukemia. He was 71.
• The Reading Terminal Market management wants Rick Olivieri and his Philly Steaks shop out today, but Olivieri has "filed a complaint in Common Pleas Court, asking for a temporary restraining order that would allow [him] to stay," and plans to be cooking steaks today, tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday. Let's hope we won't be talking years later about the Great Philly Cheesesteak Riot of 2007...

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