The Daily Numbers: 108,413 dollars, the amount believed embezzled from an Upper Darby firm by a Broomall man who police allege put family members and friends on the payroll even though they did not work there.
2,242 dollars believed skimmed from the booster club by the former golf coach at Penncrest High School.
0 people who showed up last night for the public hearing on the county’s $303,284,000 spending plan, which will not raise taxes.
80 dollar tax hike looming for residents of Collingdale under the new borough budget.
113,467 dollar annual salary for Republican Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi. He is now leading the effort to return legislators’
recent cost of living pay hikes.
1,020 dollars in donations that came into our Merry Christmas Fund yesterday. As usual, Delco opens its hearts – and wallets – to those in need, especially around the holidays. All funds from the Merry Christmas Fund benefit the Salvation Army.
300,000 dollars, value of home being given away by Pulte Homes Inc. at halftime of next week’s Eagles Monday night game to someone who can throw a football through a hole in a mini version of one of their houses from 20 yards away.
4,000 fans who signed up to take their best shot – or throw – at it.
Three fans will be selected at random for the halftime show.
38, age of Andrew Mogilyansky of Bucks County. He ran a charity effort to help the survivors of the Beslan school rampage in Russia. Now he’s charged with having sex with some of the kids and putting them to work in a prostitution ring.
38, age of Angela Honeycutt, the Bucks County woman who is charged with having sex with two underage boys in the shower at a sleepover that spun out of control. The jury is now mulling her fate.
5.6 percent jobless rate in the Philadelphia region in October. That’s up from 4.1 percent.
7 percent dip in passenger traffic reported by US Airways; Southwest said its traffic was down 8 percent.
1 billion dollars, what Verizon told Philadelphia City Council it would invest in the city to bring its FIOS fiber optic TV and internet service in as a challenger to Comcast.
1,510 feet, height of proposed American Commerce Center in Center City Philadelphia. City Council gave an initial OK yesterday for the $1.1 billion project. It would be the city’s tallest, easily eclipsing the new Comcast Center, and would be among the tallest in the world.
128 million dollars, how much more Gov. Ed Rendell is proposing cutting from the state budget. That brings the total of cuts to $440 million.
The state is looking at a deficit that could hit $1 billion.
2,000 dollar diamond ring that was dropped in a collection kettle of the Salvation Army outside a supermarket in a Pittsburgh suburb.
1 cent dip in price of gas at the pump, with the Philly average now being $1.96.
32 points for Kobe Bryant as the Lakers smoked the Sixers last night at the Wavhovia Center.
4 to 5 weeks, what Flyers star Danny Briere is likely to miss with continuing groin problems.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Who says Philly does not like Kobe Bryant? It was hard to tell who was the home team last night as the Lakers’ star and Lower Merion High grad was serenaded with chants of “MVP” at the Wachovia Center.
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I Don’t Get It: You’d have to turn over a lot of rocks to find the equivalent of one Andrew Mogilyansky, if the charges against him are true. The Bucks County millionaire ran a charity foundation to help the children who survived the Beslan school rampage in Russia. Now he’s charged with going to Russia to have sex with some of them and using them in a prostitution ring.
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Today’s Upper: Let’s hear it for Sen. Domini Pileggi and all the other state legislators who are coming to their senses and looking for ways for state pols to forego that cost of living increase.

Quote Box: “He took what little they had - their innocence and their dignity.
-- U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid, announcing charges against a Bucks businessman accused of going to Russia to have sex with children who survived the Beslan rampage.