Yo, Philly in the News

• The Inquirer takes another look at the troubling recent increase, both locally and nationally, in the shooting of police.
• Mayor Nutter, in his first speech outside the city since the election, as the keynote speaker at the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry's annual dinner, got a standing ovation before and after, and urged Southeastern Pennsylvania to come together and work as one to achieve greatness.
• Police are still investigating gunshots fired shortly before 2:30AM on Sunday morning in Villanova University's main parking lot at Lancaster and Ithan Avenues. No one was injured, but the school went into lockdown until 7:30AM. The gunfire might have been related to fights that broke out at a dance earlier in the night.
• La Salle University's recent ambitious expansion into the surrounding North Philadelphia community "is part of a $54 million plan that La Salle says will shape its growth and stabilize the fractured community."
• Finnish police have discovered a connection between "the teenager who plotted a Columbine-style assault in Montgomery County and the youth who murdered eight people at a school outside Helsinki last week." It turns out Plymouth Meeting resident Dillon Cossey had been trading e-mails with the Finn, "apparently out of a common interest in the Columbine school shootings and violent video games."
• The Inquirer has a little analysis of/interview with Richard Gere in the wake of his being presented with the ninth annual Marian Anderson Award last night at the Kimmel Center.

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