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  • Matt Lauer was awarded with Temple University's Excellence in the Media Award today.
  • Yo, Philly in the News

  • Larry Mendte filed a motion in federal court attacking his sentence. Mendte contends that he was promised to be charged with a misdemeanor even though he testified in open court that there were no promises associated with his guilty plea.
  • Yo, Philly in the News

  • None of the citizens who brought suspected rapist Jose Carrasquillo to justice will be charged. Said Charles Ramsey, "I don't condone violence. Members of the community were very upset over this, and some may have used more force than a trained police officer."
  • Extra, Extra

    Twitterist: Philadelphia, In 140 Characters Or Less

    We spend a lot of time on Twitter, doing our best to deliver a good mix of our headlines and real-time updates. And, in case you're not following us yet, or aren't on Twitter at all, you should know that ours is a very Twitter-friendly city.That's why we've decided to start a daily post lining up some of the more interesting tweets that fellow Phillyists have pushed out into the statusphere. In most cases, we leave the details to the original tweets, so click through, read, and follow your fellow Philadelphians. But, all alliteration aside, if you're on Twitter and we haven't found you yet, leave a link to your profile in the comments!

  • Sunday was another sad day for the Eagles, as they lost to the Baltimore Ravens 36 to 7. In fact, Donovan McNabb was benched for the first time ever after a first half in which he completed only eight of 18 passes for 59 yards and was intercepted twice.
  • An Ocean County man who filed a discrimination suit against eHarmony saw justice yesterday. The Internet matchmaker reached a settlement agreement to provide same-sex matching services next year. The new service, Compatible Partners, will be marketed to gays and lesbians and be available through the eHarmony Web site and will debut March 31, 2009.
  • Once again, Pennsylvania is one of the most important “battleground” states whose electoral votes (21) could push one candidate or the other over the 270 votes needed to secure the Presidency. Candidates are making some of their final stops in and around Philadelphia.
  • Philly.com has detailed coverage of the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Patrick McDonald and its affect on the community.
  • A couple of unrelated incidents involving firearms took place early yesterday morning in Philadelphia. In the first incident, a retired Philly cop working as a pizza delivery man was accosted by three teenagers, one of whom pointed a gun at him while the other two went through his pockets. But the retired cop was able to reach into his pocket and pull out a semiautomatic Glock, which he had a permit to carry. He shot the boy with the gun once in the chest, killing him. The other two would-be robbers ran off. The deliveryman will most likely not be charged in the incident. A few hours later, officers approaching a group of robbery suspects thought they saw a gun in one of the suspects' waistbands and told him to freeze. He reached for the weapon and one of the officers fired his gun into the sidewalk, causing bullet fragments to strike the 17-year-old suspect. He's in stable condition, and a 14-year-old was also apprehended, but the third suspect ran off.
  • Well, sort of.

  • 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.
  • And no, it's not Larry Mendte.

    Maybe you forgot about it in the wake of the DHS mess, but let us remind you.

  • As if the flash flooding wasn’t enough: over 4,000 lightning strikes were recorded in the area last night, along with close to 70,000 power outages.
  • A 50-year-old Phoenixville man tried to break into a Chester Township general-contracting company off I-95 over the weekend, possibly to steal scrap metal. We know this because he was found yesterday morning hanging by his neck from the garage window. He had apparently stood on a sawhorse and poked his head through the window looking for a latch when he slipped and snapped his neck.
  • Is this considered a conflict of interest?

    For those of you who don't know, Larry Mendte used to do stand-up out in California. Now that he has some free time, maybe he'll pick up the mic again.

  • 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.
  • The Inquirer has some more details on how the FBI got involved in the case of Larry Mendte allegedly reading Alycia Lane's email.
  • A man has been arrested in connection with the attack on a woman in a City Avenue motel room last week, and it's 19-year-old Joseph Vignola Jr., whom local television stations are reporting is the son of Joseph C. Vignola, a former city councilman and controller and well-known city political figure.
  • The saga of CBS 3 anchorwoman Alycia Lane has gotten even stranger. The Daily News reports that her first call upon release from NYPD custody was to Governor Edward Rendell. A spokesman for the governor,Chuck Ardo, said to the paper that she did it to "make sure he knew her side of the story because he is an opinion-maker and runs around in influential circles." And "I think she knew better than to ask him to intervene." Ardo also made it clear that the governor's office was not going intervene in the case.

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    CBS 3 Eyewitness News anchor Larry Mendte

    ABC 6’s Action News #1 yet again, CBS 3 getting stronger

    Kudos to NBC 10 for airing a live election special Monday night dealing with the issues and candidates in the Delaware Valley. Steve Highsmith handles things like this very well, but co-anchor Tim Lake seemed like a lightweight sitting next to him. Among the highlights: conservative talk show host Michael Smerconish and Democratic analyst Rob McCord provided a nice right/left debate on some issues and tactics. WCAU really did their election coverage - pre, during and post - right.

    Election night, NBC 10 had the best broadcast locally, supplying the right mix of live coverage, analysis and discussion, as seen on both its own newscast, and the one it produces for WPHL. Admittedly, Tim Lake seems like he should be hosting Good Day Tampa Bay or some late night infomercial rather than a newscast. Also, there is something disconcerting about Renee Chenault-Fattah anchoring election coverage, seeing as how her husband is U.S. Congressman Chakah Fattah. It has the appearance of something not-quite-kosher, but hey, this is Pennsylvania politics, where pork is not a four letter word. And anyway these are only a few minor complaints about some informative and insightful coverage.

    In a post last week, we directed you to the Philadelphia livejournal community, where the posters were fondly remembering the not-quite-dead Dave Roberts and his, as it turns out, not-quite-dead weather board. Phillyist reader Jen Miller writes in to tell us:

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