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• Fourteen members of a Chester gang were arrested in an early-morning raid yesterday.
• The budget approved by the City Council, which would increase sales tax (temporarily, so they say) and make major changes to the city's pension fund payments, may face stiff opposition when it goes to the state legislature for approval.
• A squeaky clean looking math teacher at North Penn High School is being charged with having sex with a student and sending sexually explicit messages to that student and another over the Internet.

• Yesterday at the Fumo trial, former political strategist Howard Cain testified to falsifying invoices he submitted to the State. When asked why, he replied, “You couldn’t have the state pay for political campaigns.”
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As we're sure you've noticed, we're big fans of Teachers Gone Wild here at Asshole of the Week. It seems like every week there's at least one story about a drug-dealing coach or a pedophillic teacher. But this week, one story got us thinking: how much blame can we put on the academic institutions who hire these people? Usually, we think the answer is "Not much." After all, people will go a long way to hide their transgressions, and in most cases, the schools will terminate the offenders in short order after the misdeeds come to light.

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 (!!!

There were some strong contenders for Asshole of the Week this week, a couple of whom probably might have won on another week. But this week, there was one asshole who stood knees and ankles below the rest. Our Asshole of the Week is...