The Daily Numbers: 85, age of woman brutally beaten to death in her Yeadon home. Her great-nephew and his girlfriend have been charged with murder.


8 million dollar project to replace a series of deck joints that will close 2 of 5 lanes on the Commodore Barry Bridge.


7 months, how long the project will last, starting in May, just in time to tie up people trying to escape to the shore.


1 as in first place for the Upper Darby High School Robotics and Engineering team at a recent state competition.


111,227 new voters that have registered Democratic since the November election in Pennsylvania, part of a surge along with interest in voting in the April 22 primary.


13,391 people in the state who have left the Republican Party.


57,651 people statewide who were already registered who have gone over to the Democratic ledger.


10,574 of those already registered who have changed their affiliation to Republican.


2 as in a second alleged victim who has now come forward with claims that he was sexually abused by a Delaware school teacher already in jail on charges she had sex with one of her charges. The second teen boy alleges she had sex with him and forced him to watch her conquests of the other youth.


4 million dollars worth of marijuana seized by police in a raid on a ship in Philadelphia. The pot was stacked 6 feet high.


250,000 dollars, the price tag on the emergency repairs to fix the cracked support column that closed I-95 in Philadelphia for 2 days.


50 percent of the spans on I-95 in the region that some experts say are also in need of repairs.


15, age of Philly teen honored by the D.A. and police officials yesterday for doing the right thing when he turned in a gun he found on a SEPTA bus.


320,000 dollars, the annual salary for the new boss of the state’s student aid loan agency PHEAA.


2 teens killed when a car driven by another teen went out of control and slammed into a van in Lancaster County.


1.5 million dollars a day, the amount being spent by Sen. Barack Obama in his hunt for the Democratic nomination and the White House.


75 pounds, weight of stingray that jumped into a boat in Florida, striking and killing a woman sitting on board.


24 million dollar deal for Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia to build components for a new Minuteman missile.


1 and done for the Temple Owls, who were no match for Michigan State in the opening round of the NCAA hoops tourney.


2 games on tap today for Villanova and Saint Joe’s.


5 innings, 0 runs and just 2 hits for Kyle Kendrick yesterday in his best outing of the spring for the Phillies.


4 of 5 hitters retired by closer Brad Lidge, who made his spring debut yesterday while recovering from knee surgery.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Temple of Doom? That certainly proved the case for the Owls yesterday. Michigan State expertly took the Owls’ two stars out of the game and never looked back. Now it’s up to Villanova and Saint Joe’s to keep the Philly hoops hopes alive.
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I Don’t Get It: Police in Lansdale say two 10-year-olds have been charged with a theft. And what did they take? A church’s Easter baskets that were supposed to go to the needy. I don’t get it.


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Today’s Upper: They held a “taste of spring” yesterday at Citizens Bank Park, even if the weather didn’t feel like it. Ten days until opening day.


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Quote Box: “I never liked him from the first day.”

-- A relative of murder victim Rita Hreha of Yeadon, about the great-nephew charged in her beating death.