The Inquirer takes a look at how fans are weathering the wait for the next game of the World Series. In the meantime, the Daily News regales us with more tales from Phillies fans. Oh, and hey! The Flyers won! Voter-rights advocates and election officials argued yesterday in federal court over how to keep lines moving if Pennsylvania voting machines break down on Election Day. The Inquirer takes a look at how the Obama and......

Game 5 of the World Series was suspended due to rain, and fans are not happy about it. And it's not even clear if the rain will go away in time to continue the game tonight. Lame! John McCain, Barack Obama, and Sarah Palin will all be campaigning in Pennsylvania today. It's all part of a last push for votes. Meanwhile, the Inquirer has coverage of local races. The Fraternal Order of Police Survivors'......

The Phillies didn't just win last night—they absolutely brutalized the Rays to win Game 4 of the World Series 10 to 2. Philly, that puts us one win away from our first major sports championship in 25 years. Oh, and let's not forget the Eagles won, too. Good times for Philly sports fans! Police were investigating two homicides and at least two shootings in the city over the weekend. Police found a 20-year-old Bucks......

Despite the presence of a large number of very excited Phillies fans at the game, the Rays won the second game of the World Series last night. The problems are the same: the big players on the offense are not getting big hits. That doesn't mean it's easy to get Series tickets. Yesterday City Councilman Darrell Clarke moved to lift a little known, almost four-decades-old city law that bans men massaging women and women......

The Phillies won Game 1 of the World Series last night, 3-2. Of course, being a Philly sports fan, this Phillyist would like to have seen them win better; there were a lot of missed opportunities to score, and Howard really needs to get out of this post-season slump he's stuck in. Still, a win is a win. Check out a preview for Game 2, and ponder what it might mean if Game 3......

With the World Series starting tonight, it is all about the Fightin' Phils this morning. The Daily News has a whole playbook section, and even the presidential candidates are talking about our team. 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.") After two Highway Patrol officers pulled......

McCain is still fighting for Pennsylvania, despite Obama's double-digit leads in the polls. His wife Cindy made four stops in Philadelphia and Yardley yesterday. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Democratic Party members are wondering if Obama will have any street money for them. On November 4th, voters will be asked to abolish the Fairmount Park Commission and merge it with the city Recreation Department, placing the whole under the mayor as a standard city department. The Inquirer looks......

It was a violent weekend in Philadelphia, with eight people hospitalized after five separate shooting incidents. One of them was a soldier a week away from training who died from his injuries. Oh boy, the Fumo corruption trial is finally going to start this week! The Daily News lists some of the key players so you can follow along at home, while the DA praises the defendant for his work on gun laws. That's not......

Jocelyn Kirsch is due to be sentenced today in U.S. District Court. She could get as many as six or seven years in prison. Her boyfriend is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday. 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......

Well, first of all, THE PHILLIES ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!! WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!! A debate between congressional candidates filmed Friday in Allentown by a local TV station was censored when it aired Monday to avoid causing financial harm. Democratic congressional candidate Sam Bennett stated that two major banks had failed when in fact they hadn't. WFMZ-TV muted the sound and blurred Bennett's lips as she made the erroneous remarks. Yesterday afternoon in Port......

The Daily News and the Inquirer both have more detail on the suspect arrested in that October 5th road rage shooting. The Daily News story reveals the man is so upset over what happened, he attempted suicide. 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......

Earlier this morning, we noted that police had released photos of a truck possibly tied to October 5th's "Road Rage" shooting, in which Thomas Timko was shot while driving on the Schuylkill Expressway, shortly after exiting the toll plaza on the Walt Whitman Bridge. Timko's 8-year-old daughter was in the car with him, and was able to flag down help. Now comes news that the alleged shooter, 33-year-old Christian Squillaciotti of South Philadelphia, was arrested......

People, the Phillies are just one win away from the World Series. That is crazy. The Philadelphia School District is suffering from a high number of teacher vacancies, which experts say points to systemic problems in the hiring process. Mark Wahlberg is in town with Ludacris pitching their new film Max Payne, and the Inquirer takes the opportunity to explain why Wahlberg is an honorary Philadelphian. The Parkway Council Foundation and the Center City......

"Republican City Councilman Jack Kelly is suing a Lawncrest man for a smear campaign that Kelly says nearly cost him last year's general election." "Police are looking for the driver of a gray Ford pickup who may have been involved in or witnessed the wounding of a Glendora man in a road-rage shooting Sunday night near the Walt Whitman Bridge." Barack Obama will be all over Philly tomorrow, with rallies in four neighborhoods. A......

A really interesting piece of commentary in the Inquirer describes an exchange between Sarah Palin and a Temple student and how it got blown up into a bit of a national scandal. NFL star Marvin Harrison was never charged in a North Philadelphia shooting this spring, even though various pieces of evidence seemed to point in his direction. Now the victim is suing Harrison over the incident. "Two men and a 24th District police officer......

The Phillies beat the Brewers yesterday afternoon to win the Nation League Division Series. At almost the same time, the Eagles suffered an embarrassing loss to the Washington Redskins, but most Philadelphians were ignoring that and focusing on the positive, not to mention the upcoming National League Championship Series where the Phillies will face the LA Dodgers. Your deadline to register to vote in Pennsylvania in time for the presidential election is today. So......

Bruce Springsteen will play a free show on the Parkway this Saturday as part of an open-air rally for Barack Obama. The latest poll shows Obama still leading John McCain in Pennsylvania. In fact, thanks to efforts by the Obama campaign in the area, Democrats now have a 1.1 million registration edge in Pennsylvania, with large gains in the traditionally Republican Philadelphia suburbs. Coverage of Patrick McDonald's funeral. 25-year-old Michael Thomas was held for trial......

The House rejected the economic bailout plan yesterday and the Dow plummeted. The Inquirer takes a look at how local folks and small businesses are coping with the economic crisis, and the Daily News finds that things are going well for at least one set of businesses: secondhand shops. A second-grade student at Harrington Avery D School in West Philly brought a bag of marijuana to school yesterday and showed it off to his......

A fire broke out in City Hall shortly after 4:30AM on Saturday in a judge's chambers. The chambers were being remodeled and were not occupied. It's possible that an electrical problem was the cause. There were no injuries, although three other offices sustained smoke and water damage. Latrice Bryant, chief legislative aide to Philadelphia City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr., issued a letter of apology to Goode yesterday for holding up signs during a......

More information on Daniel Giddings, the accused killer of Philadelphia police officer Patrick McDonald. There's also more on McDonald himself and the area where he was killed, and details on his public viewing. "Service on SEPTA's R6 commuter rail line has been suspended in both directions after a person crossing the tracks this morning was struck by a train." With the presidential election fast approaching, and the key battleground state of Pennsylvania still up......

SustainLane has ranked Philadelphia eighth in sustainability among US cities. (Via Aaron) Philly.com has detailed coverage of the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Patrick McDonald and its affect on the community. Residents of Northern Liberties, Kensington, and Fishtown are fighting a plan to convert the Jumbo Theatre, at Front Street and Girard Avenue, into a concert venue. "The Montgomery County mother who purchased an assault rifle for her teenage son, who was plotting a Columbine-style......

"A two-alarm fire tore through an eastern Pennsylvania home late Saturday, killing three children only hours after a birthday celebration." Lane closures and traffic restrictions. "A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury this morning begins hearing testimony in the murder trial of Hakim Bey, an alleged member of a violent South Philadelphia drug gang." Four men were hospitalized—three in critical condition—after several shootings across the city last night. Contract negotiations are getting testy between the......

Yesterday, local Jewish leaders criticized a poll performed by the Republican Jewish Coalition that targeted 750 Jewish voters in swing states, including 150 in Pennsylvania. It sounds like the thing was a push poll that was attempting to convince voters that Obama is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. Authorities issued a warrant yesterday for Dorien Oberlton's arrest in the case of Tuesday's vicious beating of Eric Derrickson in an underground subway concourse. Several witnesses came forward to......

A report is due out today from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council comparing heart surgeries at area hospitals. John Jackey Worman, the Delaware County man whose child porn case we've been posting about here for some time, was convicted in federal court of dozens of child-pornography charges yesterday. Worman could spend the rest of his life in jail. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. An off-duty SEPTA police officer was......

Seven people were shot in five separate incidents within about a 12-hour span from Monday into yesterday. The judge for the Fumo corruption trial is still ill, a fact that may delay the trial for at least a month. Monday was the first work day with higher tolls on the DRPA's Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman, Commodore Barry, and Betsy Ross Bridges, so it's not entirely surprising that commuter traffic dropped on those bridges Monday,......

As part of his attempt to convince Philadelphia business leaders to hire ex-convicts, Mayor Nutter hired one himself: Ronald L. Cuie, as director of the Mayor's Office for the Reentry of Ex-offenders. But Cuie was quietly demoted six months later. Nutter's explanation: "Needs and strategies change and evolve over time, and you utilize your personnel as best you see fit." But the Inquirer points out that while in the position, "Cuie nearly doubled his staff......

The Inquirer is covering some of the nightmarish testimony at the Worman child porn trial. D'oh. Philadelphians have been ranked the ugliest again. (Via Ross) Yesterday citizens and other officers paid their respects at the public viewing for Police Officer Isabel Nazario. An additional viewing is being held until 11 this morning at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, with a mass scheduled for noon. The bleak economy and overly optimistic budgeting have led......

Officer Isabel Nazario was killed in a crash Friday night during the pursuit of a teenager driving a stolen Cadillac Escalade. A West Philadelphia teen was charged Saturday with third-degree murder and other offenses in the crash, and a vigil was held yesterday to mourn and remember her. A 22-year-old South Philadelphia man was fatally shot Saturday in the city's Point Breeze section, and on the same day, a 29-year-old man was shot to death......

"Authorities yesterday searched the Main Line home of a dentist who they believe may have been involved in dumping some of the syringes and other medical waste found on eight Jersey Shore beaches in the last two weeks." The Penn State football team is in trouble again. Coach Joe Paterno said last night that defensive end Maurice Evans, defensive tackle Abe Koroma, and tight end Andrew Quarless would not play tomorrow against Oregon State after......

"A Delaware County woman, who allegedly helped her boyfriend lure young victims to her babysitting service so he could secretly tape sexually explicit videos of them in what authorities have called the 'most horrific case' of child exploitation they have seen, pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom yesterday. " 29-year-old Anthony Derubeis of Upper Darby decided to barbecue some books on his grill yesterday morning. When firefighters arrived, he started throwing stuff at them,......