Moving Beyond 10,000 Losses: A look at why it’s so difficult to be a Phillies – hell for that matter a Philadelphia – sports fan.
Déjà vu all over again.

The Daily Numbers: 1 teen shot and another being sought after a fight inside Chester High spilled outside, where gunfire rang out Tuesday.

5 hours, how long it took to get traffic back to normal on northbound I-95 Tuesday after a trash truck overturned and caught fire yesterday, turning the interstate into a parking lot.

2 million dollars seized by authorities in Montgomery County in raids targeting local taverns that use video poker machines. One of the taverns hit was in Havertown.

307 people now killed so far this year on the streets of Philadelphia. The latest homicide apparently was the result of two men fighting over a woman in West Philadelphia.

2 times police say a woman in New Jersey struck her husband with her car. She is accused of running him down outside their Monroe Township trailer, then backing up and running over him again. She’s now charged with attempted murder.

60,000 ecstasy pills seized, along with 100 pounds of pot, in drug raids done by federal agents on houses in Philadelphia and Berks County.

48 year-old man charged in a fatal stabbing in Philadelphia. The victim? His 48-year-old brother. Police believe they were arguing about money.

1 million dollars raised so far by state Supreme Court candidates Seamus McCaffery and Mike Krancer.

2 students have been arrested out in Bradford County for threats against the local school that have caused authorities to shut the school for the week.

5.28 percent tax hike enacted in the Harrisburg School District, even though the new state law was supposed to cap the hike to 5.1 percent. School officials were raked over the coals by the Legislature yesterday.

6 runs, all earned, given up by Phils starter Jamie Moyer in his 5 and a third innings last night.

4 home runs smacked the Phils in the losing effort.

5 games left in the baseball countdown. It may be now or never for the Phils.

I Don’t Get It (with apologies to Jack McCaffery): In Pottstown, a longtime church is investigating who and why someone painted graffiti and satanic images all over their church.


Today’s Upper: Mayor John Street isn’t talking about why he failed to pay taxes on several properties he owns. Can’t say that I blame him.

Quote Box: "They are envious of the way things are going and they are trying to discredit me and the detachment."
-- James Alleva of Upper Darby, a Vietnam veteran who has been charged by federal authorities with wearing medals he never earned