• The 14-month-old boy mistakenly left in the backseat of a hot car by his grandfather died Saturday afternoon at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia after five days on life support. The mother of the child has forgiven her father for the mistake.
• Pretty soon Mayor Nutter will have to negotiate new contracts with Philadelphia's four municipal unions; the Daily News suspects the ordeal will be the end of Nutter's honeymoon.
• A four-alarm fire struck the Wildwood boardwalk at Mariner's Landing at Morey's Pier shortly after 1AM this morning. An office building and two amusement rides were burned, and two firefighters suffered minor injuries, but the fire was under control in several hours, and the pier was not significantly damaged; it's expected to reopen later today.
• A 23-year-old aspiring teacher was walking home from his midnight shift at Starbucks about 1:30AM yesterday when he was robbed and shot to death on the 800 block of Ellsworth Street.
• Summer is one of the hungriest times in the Philadelphia area, and this season may be one of the worst, thanks to the poor economy. Local hunger-relief organizations expect to have a difficult time coping with the need.
• There will be overnight traffic restrictions on the Blue Route this week between the Schuylkill Expressway and Ridge Pike interchanges in West Conshohocken and Plymouth Township. Click through for the details.

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