The Daily Numbers: 0.5 percent of Chester’s earned income tax of 2.35 percent that the Chester Upland School District Empowerment Board wants to get its hands on. So far the elected school board, city and county officials are opposing the move.


200 dollars worth of stuff shoplifted from a Springfield supermarket. Police say a woman used her 11-year-old daughter to retrieve plastic bags to stash the loot.


2, as in a mother and daughter, 36 and 19 respectively, who have been arrested after allegedly going on a shoplifting spree at a Kohl’s store in Wilmington.


3,600 dollars a year, what Ridley Park says it can save by going to bi-weekly paychecks. The borough’s cops don’t like the proposal.


33 students in Penn-Delco who are having their residency questioned by the school board.


12 members of the Penn-Delco School Board to resign in the last 18 months. Board President Dave Seitz is the latest to step down.


2 Philadelphia police officers sent to hospital after their cruiser collided with another car in North Philly.


3 houses of worship that have now been the targets of vandals in Bucks County. The churches are just a few miles apart. Police are investigating the possibility that the graffiti and threats are the work of a demonic cult.


3 teens in the last couple of weeks who have now been attacked by a gang of thugs on the Broad Street subway line.


13, age of student charged with stabbing four of his classmates at Antietam Middle-Senior High in Reading, Pa. He says he was being bullied by fellow eighth-graders.


4,000 dollars worth of goods that a school board member in Bloomsburg, Pa., served time for stealing more than two decades ago. He’s upset that his foes are now bringing it up again.


100 dollars a barrel, the threshold oil prices soared over yesterday, in part due to a fire at a refinery in Texas.


2 cent spurt in the price of gas overnight. The region’s average price for unleaded regular is now $3.04. Statewide the price went up 2 cents as well, to $3.07. Need to fill up? Drive over to Jersey. Average price there is $2.82.


5,000 more cases of cancer reported in 2005. That reverses a two-year trend in which the number of cases declined.


9 straight wins for Barack Obama, who put Wisconsin in the win column last night.


8 straight losses now for the Flyers, who fell in Ottawa last night in a shootout.


22 point win for Chester High last night as they overwhelmed Penn Wood, 74-52, to advance to the PIAA District 1 final.


2 wins by the O’Hara and Carroll girls, setting up another showdown for the Catholic League Southern Division crown.


3 million bucks, what separates Ryan Howard and the Phillies as they head for arbitration today.


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I Don’t Get It: State police and the Gaming Control Board are pointing the fingers at each other over just how a guy who just got indicted managed to be awarded a license for one of the state’s prized slots parlors.


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Today’s Upper: Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the killing of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, lost another round in court, being denied a hearing for his claims that some witnesses at his trial perjured himself.


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Quote Box: “We are not against being fiscally responsible … but it will cost money the way you are doing it.”

-- Ridley Park Police Capt. Mark Bascelli, on council’s plan to issue paychecks every two weeks.