Posts Tagged ‘ Metro ’

• An 11-month-old baby girl remained at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Thursday after she and her mother were attacked by a vicious dog inside an Upper Darby home. • As the conventional wisdom of Philly politics go, Sam Katz’s dreams of elected office died with his 2003 rematch loss to John Street, and Michael Nutter...
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… In addition to a pre-Labor Day look at what would happen to the Shore should Hurricane Earl arrive, a couple articles of note: - Did a Hunting Park murder stem from a group catfight? A beef between two groups of mostly-underage girls snowballed into a deadly Feltonville shooting in June. Though a shooter hasn’t been...
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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/are about Philadelphia’s push to make profitable/have ads on their site bloggers pay the $300 business privilege tax. And, how the city is ramping up efforts to fine residents for weeds on their lawns and mistakes in their recycling. One important side note: the line about the city not saying how the blogger list...
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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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… are about Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey’s push to de-corrupt his ranks and the never-ending battle over the MOVE 9 (yes, the photo caption got it wrong: The MOVE bombing wasn’t in North Philly; it was on Osage Ave. in West Philly). Extras that didn’t make the paper because of space: From the MOVE Story Parole...
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