Yo, Philly in the News

• Thomas Daley, a 45-year old Phoenixville man who owns 16 apartments in Norristown, has been arrested and accused of spying on female tenants.
• Michelle Obama will make several appearances this week in the Philadelphia area. John McCain spoke yesterday at the Delaware County Courthouse.
• The new penny, unveiled yesterday morning, was designed partly in Philadelphia.
• A 52-year-old man was in critical condition after being shot in the Mill Creek section of West Philadelphia last night.
• City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr.'s chief legislative aide, Latrice Bryant, who drew attention at a City Council meeting the other day, has had liens filed against her by the city six times in the last five years for failure to pay her gas bills, according to court records, despite her high salary. She says the records are in error. Fox 29 News plans to air a story tonight about Bryant allegedly attending to personal business while logged in as working at her City Hall office.
• There was a three-alarm fire at a cabinet-lamination business in South Philadelphia. No one was injured.
• After learning that Pennsylvania leads the nation in the number of juvenile lifers in its prisons, Sen. Stewart Greenleaf organized a four-hour public hearing in Harrisburg yesterday on whether life-without-parole prison sentences are too harsh for juveniles.
• The usual road closure notifications.
• Attorney General Tom Corbett said yesterday that he would not bring a fresh round of charges in the 19-month-old Bonusgate probe until after the Nov. 4 election, if at all.
• A new study by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance shows that a substantial number of the region's cultural organizations are operating with life-threatening deficits.

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