New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram was ticketed for speeding last Friday after being clocked at 69 mph in a 50 mph zone. Ms. Milgram admits she was wrong and plans to pay the $176 ticket. She’ll also receive four points on her license. Jersey drivers…......

The Attorney General's Office has accused Former State Rep. Frank LaGrotta of giving his relatives fake jobs in order to pay them thousands in taxpayer dollars. A cheval-de-frise (an iron-tipped log that's placed in a riverbed along with many others in order to gore the hulls of enemy warships) was recently found at the bottom of the Delaware River at the Sunoco Logistics pier in South Philadelphia. It's a relic from the mid-1770s, and......

The big news today is police shootings. The Inquirer and the Daily News both examine the alarming local and national trend. The Daily News also reveals some backstory on the gunman who shot four people, including a policeman, before jumping into the Schuylkill River Tuesday night (his body was found early yesterday morning). And finally there are two articles about yet another shooting that took place early yesterday morning when a man tried to......

Sadly, we have a lot of notes about violent crime this morning. First up is the story of a brutal mugging, and the act of a good Samaritan that may very well have saved the victim's life (via Jill). That incident occurred some time ago, but early Saturday morning a gunman fired into a crowd outside Club Polaris, killing two young men and injuring three more. The club has been closed by the city's......

A mother who had been barred from contact with her son for being physically abusive towards him managed to sign him out of his elementary school on Tuesday and police are now searching for her and the boy. The boy is seven years old and asthmatic. Call Southwest Detectives at 215-686-3183 if you have any information. "A recently completed 'citizens' inspection' of a third of the 140 parks operated by the Fairmount Park Commission and......

Oh no! Fumo's attorney, Richard Sprague, just played the old "the charges are politically motivated" card. Meanwhile, the loose accounting and auditing practices that allegedly led to Fumo being able to allegedly get away with what he allegedly got away with (you know, allegedly) are going to be tightened up, according to the President Pro Tempore of the state Senate. Holy crud! The bill banning trans fats in Philly eateries (pre-packaged foods are excepted, so......

Here's a weird and disturbing story: a 30-year-old woman was killed in a double hit-and-run in Kensington very early Sunday morning. It sounds like what most likely happened is that one car hit her and threw her into the path of the other car. Neither vehicle stopped. One of the cars - a black Lexus with Maryland plates - was found nearby a little later, on fire. Very strange. Here's the Daily News version......

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it the -ists ponder? Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect its beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to......

Al Gore picked the right time to come to the city to promote his global warming book; if anything could make us believe in, and want to fight back against, global warming, it's this horrible heat!! Joseph White, the drummer for Philly soul band The Stylistics, was sentenced on Tuesday to 4 1/2 to 10 years in prison for "offering to pay a woman $5,000 to slit the throat of his girlfriend." Say it......

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it......