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  • Partners at the law firm Wolf Block will be cooped up in a meeting today allegedly deciding the firm's fate. According to rumors, the firm's equity holders will meet to discuss the possible dissolution of the firm, which dates to 1903.
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  • Philadelphia Newspapers LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday. The parent company of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com is mired in $390 million in debt.
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    Who is causing all the fires in Coatesville? Theories abound, but answers are still elusive.

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  • Governor Rendell will give his budget address today to the House and the Senate. He will be asking them to approve legislation legalizing video-poker. The Governor is expected to announce spending for the fiscal year in the amount of $29 billion, anonymous sources indicate. The increased amount is dependent upon monies received through a federal stimulus plan.
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  • The former sales manager of the reigning Arena Football League champion Philadelphia Soul says that Jersey son Jon Bon Jovi owes him close to $125,000 in back wages and sales commissions. Joseph Krause filed suit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to get what he is owed.
  • ...Does this to other people's homes?

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  • Six Drexel University students on a fraternity trip through Lycoming County were in a one-car wreck early yesterday morning that killed two of them, including the chapter's president, and injured the other four. Police would not provide details, including whether alcohol was a factor in the accident or whether the two who died had been wearing seat belts. John Patrick "Johnny" Williamson Jr., 21, of Havertown, and Ian Alexander, 22, of Royersford, died in the 3:30 a.m. accident on Route 15, two miles south of Liberty, Pa., state police said in a written release. The young men had been headed south at the time of the accident.
  • Leonard Luchko, a computer technician and former aide of Senator Vincent Fumo, is accused of illegally destroying years' worth of state Senate computer records, apparently in an attempt to hide the data from the FBI during its investigation into Fumo. Luchko will plead guilty on Monday, marking the first plea in the corruption case against Fumo. The terms of the plea agreement have not yet been specified. In other corruption case news, "City Councilman Jack Kelly's top aide, his campaign treasurer, and his two top political contributors pleaded not guilty to federal fraud and conspiracy charges yesterday and were released on $10,000 bail."
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