
- Shortly after getting their mayor back, Atlantic City lost him again - when he resigned yesterday. The president of the City Council, William "Speedy" Marsh, was quickly sworn in as acting mayor. And AC isn't just getting a new mayor - they're also getting a brand new, $5 billion hotel and casino.
- The city is going to court to try to force the owners of the Girard Warehouses at Front and Market Streets to stabilize the six historic buildings, parts of which have collapsed recently.
- The police now have a sketch of the man who recently attacked a Temple University student in her high-rise apartment on South 13th Street.
- Responding to a call Saturday night about a person with a gun, police instead found, when they arrived at some run-down businesses in Frankford, a "dogfighting dungeon that sickened even seasoned animal-cruelty investigators."
- Today - which coincidentally is National Coming Out Day - Philadelphia is getting its first openly gay judge.
- Here's a fascinating story about a family's search for some priceless jewelry - in the Lanchester Landfill in Honey Brook.
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People involved in dog fighting need to have their genetic material permanently removed from the gene pool (preferably in as painful a way as possible - I'm thinking rusty pliers), all of their money turned over to no-kill shelters, and any hope of ever getting out of jail/off probation taken away from them.
I have spoken.