Across the Ist-a-Verse
- After yesterday's snow delay, Vincent Fumo's defense team is scheduled to make their closing arguments today. Jury deliberations could begin as soon as tomorrow.
- A southbound SEPTA R2 commuter train clipped a car at a grade crossing in Montgomery County this morning, briefly disrupting service on the line and sending the motorist to the hospital." The accident, which occurred just before six a.m., affected train service for about an hour.
- A proposed New Jersey one-handgun-per-month law failed by one vote yesterday in the State Senate. Had it passed, New Jersey would have become the fourth state with such a law.
- We couldda been a contender. One of last week's winning Powerball tickets was sold just out of town, at Plymouth Meeting Mall.
- President Obama has tapped one of Governor Rendell's deputy chiefs of staff, Roy Kienitz, as the U.S. Department of Transportation's undersecretary for policy.
- A legally blind and apparently very angry man has been charged with stomping his drinking buddy to death "because the victim kept falling into him as they walked to a room at a small Burlington County hotel where they lived."
- "The Daily News will soon be labeled on its front page as an edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, though the two papers will still be sold separately, maintain separate news staffs and compete for stories, officials of Philadelphia Media Holdings announced yesterday." This move is apparently an effort by Brian Tierney and Philadelphia Media Holdings, which filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection last week, to "save money by allowing the publications to act as a single subscriber to wire services." Additionally, ad sales should be affected positively.
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