Yo, Philly in the News

• Hey, it's election day! And what with the Mayor's race being a foregone conclusion and everything, the interesting stuff is happening in the fight for two seats on the state Supreme Court.
• The search for John Lewis, the suspect in the murder of Officer Chuck Cassidy, is over. Police apprehended him at a homeless shelter in Miami at 7AM. They tracked him down after learning that a relative had bought a bus ticket to Miami for him.
• The latest on the city's potential casinos: Mayor Street and Governor Rendell met three weeks ago with the owners of SugarHouse about their zoning troubles, and Nutter is upset that he was left out. Meanwhile, "four civic associations and 10 neighbors of two proposed riverfront casinos filed suit in federal court on Friday, asking a judge to stop the developments."
• A Philadelphia-based team was one of only six to finish a robot car race this weekend. This was the third driverless car race sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, but the first in which entrants had to navigate moving traffic. The point of the races is to encourage design of a vehicle that could be used in wartime missions without the need of a U.S. soldier in the driver's seat. "Another Pennsylvania team, led by Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, took the $2 million top prize."
• Governor Rendell, troubled by recent reports of a large growth in staffing and salaries, "yesterday urged City Controller Alan Butkovitz to immediately begin a comprehensive audit of the Philadelphia Parking Authority."
• Rendell also found time yesterday to announce his upcoming nomination of Temple University education specialist Heidi A. Ramirez to become the fifth member of the School Reform Commission. She would be the body's youngest member, at 33, and its first latina.

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