Extra, Extra

• Another day, another doomsday budget scenario from Mayor Nutter. The city is undertaking a review of 12,000 city workers, and 3,000 of them will be laid off—including 1,000 police officers and 200 firefighters. Notices will go out in mid-September, with the layoffs being effective October 2.
• We feel bad for many—but not all—shooting victims. Amongst the ones we don't have any pity for are guys who manage to get themselves shot while committing a home invasion.
• The annual mockery of higher education that is the U.S. News & World Reports rankings once again put a number of area colleges and universities high on their lists.
• Police have released a sketch of the suspect in the killing of 22-year-old Mamadou Makadji in Elmwood Park during a robbery attempt Monday night. Anyone with information should contact the Philadelphia Police homicide unit at 215-686-3334 or 215-686-3335.
• One of the defendants in the Sean Patrick Conroy murder case this morning took the stand and reenacted his account of the beating—in which he, of course, did not deal a single blow to Conroy but rather stood in shock while one of his co-defendants committed the assault that left Conroy dead.
• Investigators are looking for a lowlife piece of scum who beat and robbed a 100-year-old man in broad daylight in Southwest Philadelphia yesterday.

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