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Bloody hell, what is going wrong? Didn't we say to stop doing this?
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A Grays Ferry man has turned himself in to police after shooting his own son three times during an argument.
It doesn't look like Donovan McNabb is going to play this week. Let's hope the game works out better than last week's.
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Law enforcement officials are looking for a waste of life who completely duct-taped a cat and abandoned it in North Philadelphia. Thankfully, veterinarians and nurses from the Pennsylvania SPCA were able to remove all of the duct tape and the cat is doing very well. A $1000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the asshole responsible.
Someone sent a threatening letter containing a suspicious substance to Barack Obama's South Philadelphia campaign office at 15th and Christian streets. The office was evacuated, but initial tests determined the substance was brown sugar. Meanwhile, McCain was unveiling his new plan for the economy in Montgomery County.
This weekend a number of political superstars will be coming to the region, including Sarah Palin, who'll be dropping the first puck at the Flyers' regular-season opener at the Wachovia Center.
At a defendant's sentencing hearing yesterday in a robbery and attempted rape case, the woman who had been the victim of the attack began hyperventilating in court and then collapsed in an anteroom. She was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and later released. The defendant was given the maximum sentence of 20 to 40 years in state prison.
The election is getting closer, which means it's time for some voter intimidation! "An anonymous flier circulating in African-American neighborhoods in North and West Philadelphia states that voters who are facing outstanding arrest warrants or who have unpaid traffic tickets may be arrested at the polls on Election Day." This is false.
John Jackey Worman, the Delaware County man whose child porn case we've been posting about here for some time, was convicted in federal court of dozens of child-pornography charges yesterday. Worman could spend the rest of his life in jail. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Philadelphia School District counselor Veno Leigertwood, 31, was shot once in the neck shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Saturday in front of his Yeadon, Delaware County home. He died of the injury. His wife, Raven, and 7-month-old daughter, Nichole, were sleeping inside at the time. He was about to get his M.B.A. and had just received a promotion at his job. Leigertwood had no known enemies, and only his cell phone was taken.
A 22-year-old South Philadelphia man was fatally shot Saturday in the city's Point Breeze section, and on the same day, a 29-year-old man was shot to death near his home in the city's Logan section.
Apparently one of the key witnesses against Vincent Fumo in his corruption trial will be his own son-in-law. In the hopes of keeping the trial from running overlong, the judge in the case has ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys to pare down their witness lists.
A man wanted for the murder of a four-year-old boy was arrested early this morning in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia photographer, founder of phillyskyline.com, and friend of Phillyist Brad Maule has sued The Colbert Report, and the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer for using his photographs without permission. He is seeking $1.25 million in damages.
The Inquirer discusses the Dalai Lama's one-day visit to Philadelphia today.
Oprah Winfrey was scheduled to make a pitch for tougher dog laws in Pennsylvania on her talk show yesterday, but ran out of time. The pitch was to include her reading excerpts from a letter Gov. Rendell sent her last month seeking support for legislation he's pushing to overhaul Pennsylvania's dog law to prevent abuses in puppy mills. Oprah tentatively plans to address the issue later this month.
West Philadelphia High School's Automotive and Technology Academy has become the first program of its kind in the school district and one of 47 nationally to receive a special certification called the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation Training. School officials will celebrate the certification today at district headquarters from 1PM to 4PM.
For reasons we do not understand, the state House rejected a measure yesterday that would have made it mandatory to report lost and stolen handguns. The only Philadelphia law-maker to vote against the amendment, House Speaker Dennis O'Brien, said the bill was flawed and could have had unintended consequences for legitimate crime victims. But, he admitted, "It's a difficult vote to explain why you're not for it." Indeed.
Yesterday, City Council gave final approval to a lease with Fairmount Park that will allow Fox Chase Cancer Center to begin an $800 million expansion. Council also got its first look at a proposal to build a 15-story condominium tower and six-story hotel on the NewMarket site in Society Hill.
Chelsea Clinton was at Penn yesterday, stumping for her Mom, and said we should expect to see her and her family a lot in the near future. Which sounds like a threat to us. Beware, Philadelphians! They're coming! Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies! (BTW, in a related story, voter interest is surging in Pennsylvania suburbs.)
Both the Inquirer and the Daily News are taking a look this morning at the three finalists for the job of chief executive officer of the School District of Philadelphia, and the Inquirer also has a look at the 45 advisory committee members who will actually be interviewing the finalists and selecting the CEO from among them.
23-year-old Chante Wright, as part of a deal to cut her boyfriend's jail sentence, agreed to testify in a murder case. It was a dangerous move, and her testimony was crucial, so "she became the first state witness in Philadelphia to enter the federal witness-protection program." She was given a new identity and moved to Florida. Unfortunately, she defied authorities and returned to Philadelphia to visit her gravely ill grandmother. She was killed early Saturday, only seven hours after coming back to the city.
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Philadelphia meanie (and school district bus driver) Bill Mitchell lobbed three kittens out the back door of his school bus yesterday morning while the Port Richmond neighbors watched. Terri Gerretz and her daughter, who unlike Mitchell are not monsters wearing human skin, ran from their yard to stop him. When that failed, they scooped up the hungry, bug-ridden kitties and wrapped them in blankets, and called 911 with the bus's license plate.
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What a week for the morally bankrupt—get out your human hamster balls—the jerkface warning this week is in red alert. We're less shining city on a hill and more festering, partially drained swamp sinkholed between two slime-pollutant-intoxicated rivers.
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We've already mentioned this story. And we likely will again. But seriously, look at this poor cat. Who does something like that? And don't most serial killers start with animals? Shudder.
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This column came about because, back in January, we read Bill Maher's "Dickheads of the Year;" the next day, we'd read a story about a couple of wastes of human life who had viciously beaten, stoned and hanged a Pit Bull in North Philadelphia. We were disgusted and appalled, and the "Dickheads of the Year" column was still fresh in our minds, and dishonorees.
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In honor of Ben Franklin’s birthday, lettuce-clothed PETA activists braved the cold yesterday afternoon to spread the word about animal cruelty. Dressed in nothing but iceberg lettuce, a bit of trim and a stretchy waistband, local Lettuce Lady Nicole Mathews passed out faux-turkey sandwiches, talked to tourists and answered bewildered Franklin Institute attendants in 30 degree cold. All, of course, prompting the perfectly reasonable question, “whaaaa?”
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