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• As we mentioned last night, Jim Johnson, former Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator and NFL coaching legend, died yesterday. Johnson, 68, was battling melanoma.
• Employees of the city's Northwest Transfer Station, which compacts trash to be shipped to landfills, have alleged that they were discriminated against based upon their race. Lawrence "Lonnie" Powell explains that he had to ask permission to go to the bathroom and was not permitted to use a bathroom just feet away that white employees were able to use without permission.
• A city audit of the Philadelphia Parking Authority is going to show that the agency is top-heavy with managers, spends its money in an unorganized way, and is not cooperating with the city regarding an explanantion as to who receives free parking passes to park at the airport. PPA spokeswoman Linda Miller said that there is a lot in the audit that the agency "adamantly disagrees" with.

• Yesterday, City Controller Alan Butkovitz expressed his displeasure with the Water Revenue Bureau for raising rates before figuring out their new billing system.
• Gotta love a pervert: "A 15-year-old girl told a jury yesterday that Hector Ayala, 59, a man she once considered family, tricked her into having sex by saying that it would ward off misfortune and help make wishes come true." Too bad Chris Hansen didn't get a hold of him first.
• A lesson to juvenile delinquents: if you're gonna do the crime, prepare to do the time. Tears will get you nowhere, especially after shooting a father of five.

And does this mean that there will finally be an end to illegal Sunday parking?

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When someone offers you the chance to watch a television show and spit out your opinions on it, they probably hope that you enjoy what they're throwing at you. Well, suffice it to say that Parking Wars: Best of Season 1 falls into the category of "fun to watch because it ain't me!" True Phillyists all over the city know the Philadelphia Parking Authority means business. The PPA raked in over $70 million last year. That would pay well over 2.5 million expired meter tickets. Seriously.

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We love stories about local bureaucratic idiocy. They're always good for a laugh or two, but we do tend to forget about them five minutes after we've read them. And then there's the story of Edward Stanley Harris. By now, we're sure you all know the story. This guy had been hassled annually by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for 17 years over some parking tickets that his twin brother, Edwin Shelby Harris (insert plethora of jokes about the stupidity involved in naming your twin sons Edward Stanley and Edwin Shelby here), had racked up back in 1990 and '91, but never paid. Every year, poor Edward had to go explain to the Philadelphia Traffic Court that they weren't his tickets. Well, this year, when Edward received his annual notice that his license would be suspended if he didn't pay "his" tickets and went to make his annual visit to the court, Judge Willie Adams (!!!

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week.

If you still aren't bored of stories about Jocelyn S. Kirsch and Edward K. Anderton, then by all means, read on. Meanwhile, other rather more dangerous criminals are still on the loose. Police still have little to go on in the brutal November 25th murder of John Bartram High School sophomore Antonio Q. Clarke, who was last seen alive trying to catch a trolley in Southwest Philadelphia. Call police at 215-686-3334 or -3335 with...

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at Columbia University on April 17th. We expect they shall perform starving, hysterical & naked.

Remember back in 1990 when you parked your bitchin' Camaro on South Street and came back to see a zillion parking tickets on the windshield of your sweet ride? Yeah, we don't remember that, either...but it sure did happen and you -- being the broke college student at the time -- never paid those tickets.