- Shareholders of Merck and Schering-Plough voted to approve the proposed $41.1 billion merger of the two pharmaceutical companies. The Federal Trade Commission and regulators in other countries still need to okay the merger.
- The city will be stepping up its restaurant food safety inspections.
- The co-owner of a Bucks County day care has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a 2-year-old died when the woman left the boy in a hot van for seven hours on July 1.
- Debris cleanup on I-76 near Conshohocken could turn the Schuylkill into an even bigger traffic clusterfuck than normal tomorrow and next week.
- The New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice has ruled that a Willingboro police officer was justified in the use of deadly force when he shot and killed a 15-year-old student at Garfield Park Academy who was threatening staff members with scissors on June 7, 2007.
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