The Daily Numbers: 1 year and 1 week ago that Altimese Roberts, a 67-year-old grandmother, was found brutally slain in her home. On Thursday a “person of interest” was charged in the killing.
4.6 acre parcel that would be the site of a new stadium that would house the region’s new Major League Soccer team in Chester that developers would like to have added to a Keystone Opportunity Zone.
2 million dollars, how much the developers of the site would stand to save they get the tax break. Right now the Chester Upland School District wants to see developers offer more to city schools.
701 dollars, how much the average homeowner will pay in Springfield taxes next year. It’s the same as last year because the budget contains no tax hike.
22 dollar tax hike facing residents of Nether Providence after passage of the township budget.
0 tax hike for Chester residents as the city manages to keep the lid on spending with its new budget.
2 more persons on Chester’s Most Wanted List apprehended by police.
2 brazen daylight knife-point holdups along Bishop Avenue in Upper Darby believed to have been the work of the same person, who was busted by the combined work of Aldan and Upper Darby police.
81, age of man injured when his own car rolled over him in Ridley Park.
68, age of longtime Bethel Township Police Chief Dave Houser, who passed away this week.
11 slots licenses awarded by the state Gaming Control Board. One of them was not awarded to Donald Trump for a facility in Philly. He’s now suing the board.
19, age of suspect who was shot and killed when he refused to drop a suspected weapon when ordered to do so by a Philadelphia officer. It turned out to be a pellet gun.
24, age of school bus driver in Bear, Del., charged with having sex with a female middle school student on his bus.
26,000 jobs lost in Pennsylvania in November, according to state statistics.
50 years and 8.2 million vehicles built, all of which will come to an end today for the Chrysler plant in Newark, Del., which will shut down for good.
1,100 workers out of jobs when the plant shuts its doors for the last time. At its peak, it employed 5,600.
13 people arrested in a child porn probe in South Jersey. One of them is a high school music teacher. He’s chairman of the Fine Arts Department at West Deptford High School.
1 cent dip in average price of gas in the Philly region. We’re now paying $1.76 a gallon at the pumps.
2.1 percent decline in holiday travel predicted by AAA as the nation lurches into the peak holiday travel season.
5 game win streak snapped when the Flyers fell to the Canadiens last night.
4:15 time for Eagles-Redskins game Sunday. By then we’ll know if the Bucs fell to the Chargers. The Falcons also are in Minnesota in another late game Sunday.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Reggie Brown can’t figure out why he has been dropped from the starting rotation of Eagles wide receivers. Try looking at your hands, Reggie.
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I Don’t Get It: Humane officials have busted up an operation in Wilkes-Barre in which kittens were branded with ear, neck and tail piercings. The kitties were being marketed on the Internet as “gothic kittens.”
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to Chester cops, who continue to bag more and more members of their Most Wanted List. They got two more yesterday.

Quote Box: “They’re looking for something that’s going to benefit them by $2 million. And they’ve offered us a soccer coach.”
-- Marc Wooley, chairman of the Chester Upland Empowerment Board, on request by developers of the new soccer stadium to include the parcel in a Keystone Opportunity Zone to get some big tax breaks.