• The Swan Day Spa in wealthy Berwyn on the Main Line was a front for a brothel, and the three people who ran it were arrested in Nevada and Pennsylvania yesterday.
• Vandals pushed over more than 200 headstones at a historic African American cemetery in Collingdale, including the stone of famed Philadelphia civil-rights activist Octavius V. Catto.
• A state trooper and member of a collision/accident-reconstruction team in Philadelphia was arrested for allegedly using his state-issued laptop to solicit sex from a 33-year-old mother and her 8- and 10-year-old daughters.
• The city and its largest union agreed to a one-year contract last night that Mayor Nutter believes will open up an opportunity to deal with the long-term costs of health care and pensions.
• The Inquirer points out that Philadelphia is more tolerant of its homeless than many other cities.
• A 19-year-old man has been arrested for beating a man to death with a brick and stealing his wallet. The victim was a 38-year-old landscaper with seven children and the crime occurred last week in West Philadelphia.
• There was a zoning hearing last night on a development project that could dramatically impact the future of Valley Forge national park, but don't worry! Nothing was decided.
• "Ralph Nader said yesterday that he would ask the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reopen a case connected with the Democrats' successful challenge to his 2004 presidential nomination petition."

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