Animal cruelty investigators raided some rowhouse stables on Fletcher Street yesterday, giving the owners 24 hours to relocate the 60 horses on the site. The Daily News paints a pretty horrific picture of the conditions the animals were living in. Chelsea Clinton was at Penn yesterday, stumping for her Mom, and said we should expect to see her and her family a lot in the near future. Which sounds like a threat to us. Beware,......

The latest in the case of Ebony Nicole Dorsey, the 14-year-old girl allegedly killed by her mother's boyfriend: the Daily News has an exclusive interview with the girl's mother, Danielle Cattie, who calls her boyfriend a monster. Meanwhile, the Inquirer quotes Cattie's brother defending his sister; he says she's "a great mom who deeply loves her children," and "She's a good person who made some bad decisions. She's paid a horrible price." It may seem......

The snow storm came to Philly, and it was worse than was originally expected! Many schools in the area yesterday dismissed students early and/or cancelled after-school events. A couple of crazy bastards parachuted down off the Comcast Center Sunday morning. Of course, as is requisite these days when you do something stupid and dangerous, a video was taken and promptly posted on YouTube (although sadly, it has since been taken down). Police are looking for......

As we mentioned a while back, King Tut is coming to town this weekend! Well, okay, maybe not the King himself, but a bunch of his coolest stuff will be on display at The Franklin Institute. Now that it's become clear that Tom Knox is doing exceedingly well, and has a great deal of money, a bill has been introduced to temporarily cancel the campaign contribution limits in order to even things out a......

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is trying to get more recruits to area Catholic schools via a new $500,000 marketing campaign. Maybe they should try the "Buddy Christ?" Meanwhile, a lot of work needs to be done, and a lot of money needs to be raised, if they're going to get the Sister Clara Muhammad School and the Philadelphia Masjid at 47th Street back up and running again. Apparently, part of Valley Forge is an......

The Philadelphia School District has cut the 175 administrative positions they said they were going to, in order to help fix their budget. All told, this meant 81 layoffs. Obviously, most folks weren't happy about it. Did the Feds steal money from the family of a late Center City jeweler? That's what the family is claiming. An amber alert abduction case was quickly and happily resolved yesterday, thanks to swift police action and a......

- It's official, Philadelphia's annual Fourth of July celebration on the Parkway will feature Lionel Ritchie and...U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito? Frankly, we're a little disappointed the former Commodore and the Justice aren't going to be doing a duet. (For a full-listing of events for the week long celebration, visit the America's Birthday website). (Via) - More bands are having their vans stolen on our city streets. Come on, now, Philly; haven't we......

Apparently the ground underneath Philly is loaded with bodies. The Philadelphia School District was using a ground-penetrating radar to scan the abandoned Franklin playground in Kensington - which was a cemetery up until the late 1940s, and which they hoped in the future would be the site of a new Frances E. Willard School - when they discovered that as many as 330 human graves were never removed. They probably won't be able to......

Ah, Rick Santorum, our very own state Senator. How we do enjoy his antics! Just as a for instance, let's take a look at the results of a recent probe into Santorum's personal and political finances: Rick got a $500,000, five-year mortgage from a small, private Philadelphia bank, despite the fact that he is not one of the affluent investors who are the only people they claim to give loans to - oh, and......