Yo, Philly in the News

• Investigators are still trying to work out how a woman's vehicle ran over both of her legs while she was in the drive-thru lane at a McDonald's in Phoenixville this past Friday. (Via JReedNet, via our contribute page)
• A whole array of services are now being offered to college students nationwide - as well as right here in the Philadelphia area - with names like DormAid, DormMom, CollegeBellhop and Soapy Joe's. They do things like clean up your room for you, wash and fold your laundry, drop off cases of water, and arrange for groceries to be delivered. In other words, they help you push back the time when you'll have to learn to take care of yourself. Awesome.
• The Inquirer takes a look at the fascinating and dramatic life history of Mario Capecchi, co-winner of a 2007 Nobel Prize for medicine. He grew up in the area and graduated from George School in Newtown.
• Neighbors of the man accused of the armored truck killings have a hard time believing he could be responsible for such crimes, as they know him only as "a good-looking and seemingly hardworking dad to three small kids."
• The police are looking for witnesses in the shooting death of a man on the 3900 block of Aspen Street in Mantua yesterday morning. If you have any information, call homicide detectives at 215-686-3334.
• The man most likely to be our next mayor, Michael Nutter, has requested that Philadelphia School District leaders immediately make public the results of a $700,000 management audit finished nearly a year ago so taxpayers can get a look at the information.
• Yesterday afternoon, Philadelphia police officers were responding to a call about a domestic dispute at a home in Crescentville. Apparently the mother was being threatened by her son. One version has the 15-year-old boy lunging at an officer with a weapon, apparently an iron; the officer then shot him dead. But the family spokeswoman says the boy had no weapon and never threatened the officers. Obviously, an investigation of the incident is in progress.

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