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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.
Despite a threat from Senator Fumo that their tax breaks would be removed if they didn't relocate from the waterfront, the Philadelphia casinos are determined to stay. And in fact the legislature has no legal grounds to force them out. The question now is whether anyone will even follow through on Fumo's threat, as he'll be gone by this fall.
A federal appeals court decision yesterday threw out Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence for killing Daniel Faulkner and ruled that Abu-Jamal must be sentenced to life in prison or get a chance with a new Philadelphia jury that would decide only whether he should get life or be sentenced to death again.
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