Yo, Philly in the News

• Former CBS3 news anchor Larry Mendte was sentenced yesterday to six months of house confinement, along with three years of probation and a $5,000 fine for obsessively and illegally reading the e-mails of his former co-anchor, Alycia Lane. Lane also attended the sentencing.
• Philadelphia police officer Sgt. Timothy Simpson was laid to rest yesterday beneath a pine tree in a Bucks County cemetery. The funeral began with a viewing at 7 a.m. at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Center City, followed by a Funeral Mass attended by the city's leaders. Over 1,500 people attended the Mass.
• Phillies second baseman Chase Utley had surgery on his right hip yesterday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Phillies General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said the surgery went well and that a more detailed report is expected today. Utley’s recovery time has been estimated at between four and six months.
• In other sports news, Flyers win their fifth straight game. They beat the Dallas Stars 4 to 3 last night with help from veteran Mike Knuble who scored two goals through a tough game at the Wachovia Center. The Sixers lost last night, 93 to 84, to the Charlotte Bobcats, the NBA’s lowest-scoring team.
• An undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania was named one of 32 American Rhodes Scholars. The student is the first Penn anthropology undergraduate to curate an exhibit (called the Pennsylvania Lenape exhibit) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The Rhodes Scholarship is an international award for study at the University of Oxford.

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