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The Pequot tribe is in financial trouble. The tribe is the same one that has put up $30 million to operate the proposed Foxwoods Casino on the Delaware River. The troubles threaten the future of the plan.
Two-time American Idol contestant and Allentown native Alexis Cohen was struck by a car and killed early Saturday in Seaside Heights, NJ. Investigators are seeking more information about the accident.
Apparently the company responsible for building the Dallas Cowboys' field structure that collapsed this weekend, paralyzing one of the team's scouting agents, was responsible for a similar event at Philadelphia's Tioga Marine Terminal a few years ago.
In a case of the law turned lawless, Gerald Conaway, the former president of the Bucks County Fraternal Order of Police, was sentenced to prison yesterday for stealing from the FOP. In October, he pleaded guilty to numerous charges surrounding the $5,500 in funds he took from the Order to pay off personal debts.
The ongoing Fort Dix trial is relying heavily on recorded conversations captured by FBI informants wearing body wires. The defense is arguing that the recorded conversations were casual, speculative conversation, while Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Hammer said: "Even if it was just talk, it is powerful evidence of a conspiracy."
Andrew Mogilyansky, the Bucks County man accused of luring girls from a Russian orphanage and forcing them into prostitution, will remain behind bars while he awaits trial here, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Yesterday, Mogilyansky was grated house arrest, but U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin overruled the decision on appeal. The judge agreed with prosecutors that Mogilyanskhy’s wealth, language skills and global connections render the multimillionaire a flight risk.
A coalition of community groups led by the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP strongly criticized CVS Pharmacies yesterday, accusing the chain of failing to provide customers equal access to stores and services in Philadelphia. As reported by a yearlong study sponsored by Change to Win, a labor coalition of 6 million workers from seven major unions, CVS operates 48 percent more stores in the wealthiest areas than in the least wealthy. There are one-third fewer CVS stores per person in communities with a majority of non-white residents than in communities that are mostly white, the report also concluded.
Police were investigating two homicides and at least two shootings in the city over the weekend.
Democrats now outnumber Republicans in Pennsylvania by almost 1.2 million. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has received threats at several of its Pennsylvania offices and is asking labor unions to help provide volunteer security at 27 of the offices between now and Election Day, including six in Philadelphia.
Police are seeking a rapist who assaulted a woman in a party bus parked at Lincoln Financial Field during Sunday's Eagles game.
Coverage of Patrick McDonald's funeral.
43-year-old Tarriq Ali, sentenced to a life term in Delaware, was being transported from California back to Delaware by a private prisoner transportation service when he escaped at Philadelphia International Airport. He is still at large.
Some kids got sick at Council Rock High School North in Newtown, Bucks County yesterday after taking a drug called Snurf. We'd make fun of the Daily News for doing their research on Snurf at the Urban Dictionary, but really, that's where we'd probably end up, too.
Lawrence Scott Ward, 65, a former marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, is already serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for trafficking in child porn, but yesterday new child porn charges were lodged against him.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Mayor Nutter's recent press conference in which he angrily criticized DHS left some workers upset. He spent yesterday trying to placate them in a series of closed-door meetings.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the DRPA got an earful from angry commuters yesterday at the first of two hearings on proposed toll hikes and PATCO train fare increases.
Newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that Philadelphia lost more residents between 2000 and 2007 than any U.S. city except New Orleans. Ouch.
A new veterans cemetery to be known as Washington Crossing National Cemetery is scheduled to start construction in Bucks County next year, with the first burials starting toward the end of the year. The plans for the new cemetery will be available for review tonight during a public briefing by the Department of Veterans Affairs at Washington Crossing Historic Park.
State Rep. Darryl Metcalfe refused to apologize for the comments he made on the floor of the House on Wednesday, wherein he suggested that he was opposing recognizing a Muslim religious organization's convention because "Muslims do not recognize Jesus Christ as God." He claims his comments were taken out of context, but it's hard to see how. Governor Rendell's response took the form of an awesome put-down: "I don't think I have agreed with anything Rep. Metcalfe said in the last three or four years and that statement doesn't change anything.... I don't think many people take much of what Rep. Metcalfe says seriously."
In case you were wondering, no, SEPTA transit police did not strike yesterday. About an hour before the 2PM deadline, negotiations began at SEPTA headquarters in Center City, and continued until about 10 before ending for the night. Nothing has been resolved, but they were scheduled to meet again at 9 this morning, which means they'll probably already be talking by the time you read this post.
Suspended Episcopal Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. testified yesterday in his ecclesiastical trial, trying to explain why he had not told anyone that his brother was sexually abusing a high-school student in the 1970s.
Philadelphia Police Officers Sheldon Fitzgerald and Howard Hill III, both five-year veterans who worked in the 25th District in North Philadelphia, were charged with aggravated assault and other offenses for allegedly beating up a graffiti prankster in August 2007. Now police authorities have reopened another Internal Affairs investigation into a case of police brutality involving Fitzgerald and Hill, a case that had previously been closed with no action against the two officers.
The latest on the PA primary race: Barack Obama spoke in Allentown yesterday, criticizing Republican nominee John McCain on foreign and energy policy, and disagreeing with those who are complaining that the fight for the Democratic nomination is going on too long. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton returned to Pennsylvania yesterday, talking about the economy and concerns of middle-class voters at an afternoon roundtable outside Harrisburg and an evening rally in Bucks County. Finally, Pennsylvanians signed up to vote in the primary in record numbers. On the last day to register (March 24th), about 33,300 first-time voters signed up as Democrats and another 46,000 Pennsylvanians switched to the blue party. In the same period, 6,000 new voters registered as Republicans and 1,800 switched in.
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CNN's John King, host of State of the Union, recently reported that Philly is set to play an important part in the emerging green economy. Companies like Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa, which has settled comfortably into US Steel's former Bucks County digs, are leading the way.
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- Eric Birnbaum stood chatting with a female co-worker in the parking lot outside of his Bucks County law office yesterday when a masked gunman appeared out of nowhere and fired a single shot into the back of his head. Authorities are baffled by the seemingly random, daylight shooting that occurred just after 9 a.m. yesterday.
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- Yesterday at the Fumo trial, former political strategist Howard Cain testified to falsifying invoices he submitted to the State. When asked why, he replied, “You couldn’t have the state pay for political campaigns.”
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Alligators have been showing up in Bucks County ponds and watering holes. So much so, there is a group called upon to handle the situation when it arises: the Gator Wranglers.
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