Results tagged “sentencing”

20 year old Devon, PA resident Kevin Bacci will serve work release, pay restitution, and spend 4 years on probation for being a bully. Bacci was apparently teasing a Geno's Steaks employee when a second employee stepped in to defend the first. Tony Chestnut's kind gesture got him body-slammed—twice. The sentence is reasonable enough, but when "fractured vertebrae" are involved, it takes a powerful appeal to our modern sense of justice not to wish there was an eye-for-an-eye option somewhere in the sentencing guidelines.

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

  • Yesterday City Councilman Darrell Clarke moved to lift a little known, almost four-decades-old city law that bans men massaging women and women massaging men.
  • The Fumo trial is already getting a little nasty, with the defense essentially accusing the prosecution of racism in its jury selection. (We also enjoy the headline of that article, because we misread it as "Fumo-in-law.")
  • 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.
  • Someone sent a threatening letter containing a suspicious substance to Barack Obama's South Philadelphia campaign office at 15th and Christian streets. The office was evacuated, but initial tests determined the substance was brown sugar. Meanwhile, McCain was unveiling his new plan for the economy in Montgomery County.
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