The Daily News suggests strongly that if the city made use of private ambulances when Fire Department medic units are swamped with calls, it could make the difference between life and death for certain patients. Philadelphia doesn't use nonmunicipal ambulances because of legal issues. Also in the Daily News this morning is an article providing more details on the case of the three North Philadelphia teenagers killed in a car accident on Saturday. Last......

Yesterday morning a man was shot mere steps from his home on Tioga Avenue, on the corner of North Seventh Street in North Philadelphia, and became the city's 200th homicide victim this year. Tonight Michael Nutter will be celebrating his 50th birthday with a campaign fundraiser party at a restaurant in Old City. Yesterday the SEPTA board decided that bus, subway and rail fares will increase by an average of 11 percent on July......