Yo, Philly in the News

• Well, first of all, THE PHILLIES ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!! WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!
• A debate between congressional candidates filmed Friday in Allentown by a local TV station was censored when it aired Monday to avoid causing financial harm. Democratic congressional candidate Sam Bennett stated that two major banks had failed when in fact they hadn't. WFMZ-TV muted the sound and blurred Bennett's lips as she made the erroneous remarks.
• Yesterday afternoon in Port Richmond, an argument bewteen some men on a street corner and some men in a car turned violent and ended in shooting. Two of the errant bullets hit a 2-year-old girl in the right thigh as she walked down Tulip Street with her grandmother. The grandmother was also wounded in the foot. Both were in stable condition.
• Yesterday, after 22 months of investigation, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham cleared the police officer whose bullet killed Bryan Jones during a New Year's shoot-out. Jones' relatives are furious.
• Philadelphia School District officials announced plans to expel the system's most violent students, tighten codes for others, and streamline a dysfunctional, inconsistent disciplinary system.
• The Philadelphia School Reform Commission voted to close two city charter schools yesterday.
• The woman whose body was found Monday morning on a Philadelphia golf course has been identified.
• As part of a settlement yesterday, officials of electricians Local 98 (led by former state Senate candidate John J. Dougherty) admitted to using a union PAC to pay for the creation and distribution of tens of thousands of anonymous flyers attacking Michael Nutter in the final two days of last year's Democratic mayoral primary. The Local 98 PAC was also fined $10,000.
• The Barnes Foundation held a symbolic groundbreaking at its future home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway yesterday, marking out its territory with a colorful screen.
• A man paralyzed by a bullet to the neck during a robbery attempt in North Philadelphia in 1990 died last month as a result of complications from the wound, so police are now looking for the unknown gunman again, with the intention of charging him with homicide.
• Yesterday an "agroterrorism" exercise was performed in Philadelphia and Chester County to see how the region might react to the introduction of a "foreign animal disease" in livestock.

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