Metro

Real talk. And I watched him do so. He was three-and-a-half hours late though. You can read all about it in the Metro tomorrow.
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… is about a very Divorce Court-esque case involving a man, his wife, a woman who is or isn’t his mistress and a cell-phone carrier who admits to give the wife some information about the is/isn’t mistress. Make sense? Yeah, try writing it in fewer than 300 words! Other stories: – Temple research into Philly gun...
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… is about drugging and driving. Don’t do it.
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… is about yesterday’s DRPA meeting. Previous coverage of DRPA: Oh look, DRPA and the PATCO Hi-Speed Line … A Valentine for the Hell-Bound Maggots of the DRPA DRPA: From Whore Pit Vipers to Hell-Destined Maggots You Make It Too Easy for Me, DRPA DRPA: Pit-Whore Vipers I have an idea of how PATCO could use $11 million
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… is about the ongoing city vs. union scuttlebutt about response time to a fatal West Philadelphia fire, a blaze caused by careless smoking that claimed a 12-year-old boy’s life. While “nobody can say” whether victim Frank Marasco would’ve survived without brownouts, Bedard claims an engine would have arrived “in maybe 40 seconds” under ideal...
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Couldn’t fit this all in the paper today (but please pick up a copy to see the story), what with limited space. Here’s the Metro story about civic leader Charles Bowser’s Monday death…. Charles Bowser, a widely respected African-American civic figure in the city, has died. He was 80. Details of his death and...
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… is about a court hearing that bothered me as much as the tail-end of my daily AC crime beat days. Sat in court yesterday and watched Jose Carrasquillo plead guilty to the brutal, savage rape of an 11-year-old whose name I kept out of the story both here and in the paper. It’s...
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… is about the bus ramming into Monk’s Cafe early yesterday morning. Here’s a link. Here’s an excerpt … Want to know what a bar looks like after a SEPTA bus slams into it? Join the curiosity seekers stopping by Monk’s Cafe at 16th and Locust streets, because that’s what happened early yesterday. Want to...
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… is about a 35-year-old man getting 63-126 years in prison for a violent robbery spree in which he preyed on mostly elderly. It went beyond purse snatchings; it was brutal. Here’s a link. Here’s everything that couldn’t fit in the paper … Emily Campbell didn’t want to remember the beating she suffered from a...
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… are about the South Jersey retired-cop-involved fatal hit-and-run and the shootings of a 3-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl in Philly. Happy Monday.
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