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The Daily Numbers -- Jan. 21
The Daily Numbers: 13 years the region has now been celebrating the holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a day of community service.
60,000 people in the Philadelphia region who will take part in community service projects.
14 of 15 Delaware County school districts who will have the day off. Interboro instead will hold a day “on,” with students taking part in various projects in school.
2 people found dead inside a home in Drexel Hill. Police believe an 84-year-old man killed his adult daughter, who was blind, because he feared no one would be able to care for her when he was gone. He also killed the family dog.
1.3 million dollars, the price tag for the Eagle Road site in Havertown that is the heart of an EPA Superfund site..
6 alarm fire that destroyed a furniture factory in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Sunday night.
2 degrees above zero. That’s what it feels like outside this morning. Figure in the wind chill and it’s more like about 10 below. Balmy compared to what they were dealing with in Green Bay last night.
9 floors, how far a Lower Merion student fell in a suicide leap from his King of Prussia apartment. He’s now on the loang road to rehab and recovery.
4 year degree, what officials at Montgomery County Community College are soon hoping to be able to offer students. Right now they only offer 2-year assoiate degrees.
2 men, including the victim’s uncle, charged in the murder of a young New Jersey mom after her 3-week-old baby was found abandoned in Cinnaminson. The body of the 17-year-old has not been recovered. It was believed dumped in a local creek.
2 people dead in a murder suicide in South Jersey. Police now say marital difficulty was at fault. A woman was found dead in her Marlton home. Her husband is believed to have jumped from the Delaware Memorial Bridge. His subprime mortgage firm was in bankruptcy.
4,000 jobs being cut by telecom Sprint Nextel Corp. The company has 250 employees in the Philadelphia area, 900 in Pennsylvania.
10 acre site in Concord that has been home to J. Franklin Styer Nurseries Inc. The famed local firm has been sold to Urban Outfitters. It will remain a gardening business known as Terrain at Styer’s.
1 homicide recorded so far this year in Chester. A 27-year-old man became the first murder victim when he was found in a field at Third and Wilson streets over the weekend.
25 cents more, what it will cost to buy a single copy of the Inquirer on Feb. 4. Price of the Daily News also will go to 75 cents.
70, age of TV actress Susanne Pleshette, the longtime TV wife of Bob Newhart.
13.5 point favorite, that’s the early line backing the Patriots over the Giants in the Super Bowl.
6 wins in 7 games for the Flyers, who smoked the top team in the Eastern Conference in beating Ottawa last night, 6-1.
10 million bucks, that’s what slugger Ryan Howard wants from the Phillies. They’re offering $7 million.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Did anyone else watching the NFC title game get the distinct feeling that if the Eagles had merely not put anyone back to field punts in their season opener in Green Bay, if they had just let the damn ball drop and play it where it stops, things might have been decidedly different this year for both teams?
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I Don’t Get It: An editor at a major golf publication actually thought it was would be a good idea to put a noose on the cover as a way to illustrate the flap over comments made by a female Golf Channel host concerning Tiger Woods. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: So far as I can tell, there have been no fatalities linked to all those people sitting outside for that Green Bay-Giants game in what looked like too-cold-to-believe conditions. Did anyone else fear for Giants’ coach Tom Coughlin’s life?
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Quote Box: “It’s a blessing for us to come together and connect and reconnect with each other. Hopefully, this will be an impetus for us to move together and not be so segregated.”
-- The Rev. Warren Mays, pastor at Second Baptist Church in Media, at MLK event Sunday.
60,000 people in the Philadelphia region who will take part in community service projects.
14 of 15 Delaware County school districts who will have the day off. Interboro instead will hold a day “on,” with students taking part in various projects in school.
2 people found dead inside a home in Drexel Hill. Police believe an 84-year-old man killed his adult daughter, who was blind, because he feared no one would be able to care for her when he was gone. He also killed the family dog.
1.3 million dollars, the price tag for the Eagle Road site in Havertown that is the heart of an EPA Superfund site..
6 alarm fire that destroyed a furniture factory in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Sunday night.
2 degrees above zero. That’s what it feels like outside this morning. Figure in the wind chill and it’s more like about 10 below. Balmy compared to what they were dealing with in Green Bay last night.
9 floors, how far a Lower Merion student fell in a suicide leap from his King of Prussia apartment. He’s now on the loang road to rehab and recovery.
4 year degree, what officials at Montgomery County Community College are soon hoping to be able to offer students. Right now they only offer 2-year assoiate degrees.
2 men, including the victim’s uncle, charged in the murder of a young New Jersey mom after her 3-week-old baby was found abandoned in Cinnaminson. The body of the 17-year-old has not been recovered. It was believed dumped in a local creek.
2 people dead in a murder suicide in South Jersey. Police now say marital difficulty was at fault. A woman was found dead in her Marlton home. Her husband is believed to have jumped from the Delaware Memorial Bridge. His subprime mortgage firm was in bankruptcy.
4,000 jobs being cut by telecom Sprint Nextel Corp. The company has 250 employees in the Philadelphia area, 900 in Pennsylvania.
10 acre site in Concord that has been home to J. Franklin Styer Nurseries Inc. The famed local firm has been sold to Urban Outfitters. It will remain a gardening business known as Terrain at Styer’s.
1 homicide recorded so far this year in Chester. A 27-year-old man became the first murder victim when he was found in a field at Third and Wilson streets over the weekend.
25 cents more, what it will cost to buy a single copy of the Inquirer on Feb. 4. Price of the Daily News also will go to 75 cents.
70, age of TV actress Susanne Pleshette, the longtime TV wife of Bob Newhart.
13.5 point favorite, that’s the early line backing the Patriots over the Giants in the Super Bowl.
6 wins in 7 games for the Flyers, who smoked the top team in the Eastern Conference in beating Ottawa last night, 6-1.
10 million bucks, that’s what slugger Ryan Howard wants from the Phillies. They’re offering $7 million.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Did anyone else watching the NFC title game get the distinct feeling that if the Eagles had merely not put anyone back to field punts in their season opener in Green Bay, if they had just let the damn ball drop and play it where it stops, things might have been decidedly different this year for both teams?
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I Don’t Get It: An editor at a major golf publication actually thought it was would be a good idea to put a noose on the cover as a way to illustrate the flap over comments made by a female Golf Channel host concerning Tiger Woods. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: So far as I can tell, there have been no fatalities linked to all those people sitting outside for that Green Bay-Giants game in what looked like too-cold-to-believe conditions. Did anyone else fear for Giants’ coach Tom Coughlin’s life?
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Quote Box: “It’s a blessing for us to come together and connect and reconnect with each other. Hopefully, this will be an impetus for us to move together and not be so segregated.”
-- The Rev. Warren Mays, pastor at Second Baptist Church in Media, at MLK event Sunday.
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