The Daily Numbers: 2 alarm blaze that destroyed a hubcap business on Route 322 in Upper Chichester, and in the process created a morning commuter nightmare for drivers. Route 322 has been closed in both directions from Chichester Avenue to I-95 all morning. Avoid the area at all costs.


3 calls a day, that’s what the airport says they’re getting in terms of complaints since changing flight paths over Delco. Mike Hall isn’t buying it. Neither am I.


6 days in jail for an Upper Darby mom whose son is habitually truant from school.


55,000 bucks for regional emergency medical services OK’d by county council.


3 Republicans and 1 Democrat now seeking to fill the state Senate seat being given up by Connie Williams in the 17th District.


3.7 percent wage tax, what will be welcoming some 400 suburban Verizon workers who are being relocated to Center City. They then will be subject to the city wage tax.


200 or so sticks of dynamite found at a construction site in Chester County near Church and Swedesford roads in Tredyffrin. The cache was destroyed by bomb squads.


2,720 Chester Upland students who are now in charter schools. That number is going to go up dramatically after Commonwealth Court struck down caps imposed by the district on charter school enrollments.


32 deer bagged in a hunt yesterday in an effort to thin the herd in Norristown Farm Park. Forty hunters took part, and were accompanied by a band of protesters.


1 woman fatally shot inside a Bucks County church Wednesday. Officials are labeling it a “suspicious death.”


10 percent cut in costs being sought by the new owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. Yep, the news is not good.


16 percent of the Philadelphia budget that now goes to employee health care and pension benefits. A new study says the city is facing a crisis and can no longer afford the plans without substantial changes.


1.6 billion dollar loss being reported in the quarter by Sovereign Bank, as the blood continues to flow in the financial world.


1,200 dollars, the likely cap for tax rebates for married couples with children under the economic stimulus package being discussed in Washington.


9,369,524 sales around the world recorded by GM in 2007. That barely keeps them ahead of surging Toyota, which logged about 3,000 fewer sales.


0 candidates to be the new president of West Chester University. The state has canceled its search for a replacement to Madeleine Wing Adler because six candidates all withdrew themselves from consideration.


1 point win for Springfield over Penncrest in their huge Central League wrestling showdown last night.


3 wins and 3 losses in the Big East now for Villanova, after they got thumped on the road at Rutgers last night.


10 losses in their last 12 games for the Sixers, who lost last night to the Pistons on their home floor.


1 start for both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson as golf’s two golf superstars make their 2008 PGA Tour Debut at the Buick Invitational in San Diego.


100 wins, what Jimmy Rollins believes the Phillies are capable of winning this year.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
21 days until the Phils start spring training in Clearwater. And Jimmy Rollins appears to be in mid-season form. 100 wins? Sounds good to me.
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I Don’t Get It: A man charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in Lansdale was out on bail on a child-luring charge at the time. I don’t get it.


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Today’s Upper: A group convened in Harrisburg yesterday to announce the Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign, and to push for the changes in school funding laid out last fall in a special costing-out study to be put into action. We concur.


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Quote Box: “I’m sure it’s going to be much worse in the spring when the windows are open and everyone is outside.”

-- Ridley resident Anne Hall on noise from planes now flying over her neighborhood.