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The Daily Numbers - March 11
The Daily Numbers: 250,000 dollars bail for a Sharon Hill mother charged in the stabbing death of her 17-year-old daughter. She remains in jail. A request to allow her out to attend the girls’ funeral was denied.
50,000 dollar bail for the 23-year-old suspect charged in the beating of a 74-year-old man in a long-simmering Upper Darby neighborhood feud.
13, age of eighth grader at St. Andrew School in Upper Darby charged in a plot to commit terrorist acts at the school.
17 to 35 years in jail for Quentin Johnson, the Chester man charged with strangling another man and then disposing his body like a “piece of trash.”
15 months of sleepless nights that ended yesterday for the Malley family when Army Pfc. John Malley IV was welcomed home at Philadelphia International Airport after a tour in Iraq. Welcome home, soldier.
0 percent wage hike in the first 2 years of a 4-year deal offered to their city union by SEPTA in contract talks. There are raises of 2 percent in each of the final 2 years.
3 percent, 4 percent, 4.5 percent and 5 percent raises, what the union is seeking in their counter-offer.
30,000 dollars in the hole, what the oldest free library in the U.S., which happens to be located in Darby Borough, finds itself. And that is despite $8,000 in donations that have come in since their plight first surfaced.
4.81 percent tax millage hike now being looked at in Rose Tree Media School District. That’s down from a 6.33 hike in their original budget plan.
2,400 candidates who filed nominating petitions at the county courthouse by yesterday’s deadline to be eligible for the May primary.
11 Delco businesses being cited by the state Department of Revenue for owing back taxes.
19.2 percent dip in revenue for Atlantic City casinos in February. That’s an all-time record decline in the state’s 30-year history of legalized gambling.
400 million dollars, what N.J. Gov. Jon Corzine wants to save through furloughs, wage freezes and possible layoffs. He’s also hiking taxes on those with incomes more than $500,000, and hiking taxes on liquor and cigarettes.
8,000 in electronics goods believed ripped off by a contractor who was working on the closeout at Circuit City stores. Police say the Florida contractor stole laptops and other goods from the Berwyn store.
1 winning ticket sold in the final drawing in the Match 6 Pennsylvnia lottery Tuesday night.
2 dollars a pop, what it will cost to play the new Super 7 drawing, which replaces Match 6. Tickets are on sale now, first drawing Friday night.
3 to 23 months of house arrest for a former assistant D.A. in Bucks County charged with corrupting teen boys.
9 dead, including 4 in one family, in a shooting rampage in Alabama.
10 people killed when a teen gunman dressed in black combat gear invaded a school in Germany this morning.
150 years in prison, what Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff is looking at when he enters a guilty plea to charges he swindled hundreds of investors out of billions.
379 point gain yesterday for the Dow, a ray of hope on a barren economic landscape.
11,600 jobs being slashed by helicopter maker United Technologies Corp in Connecticut.
2 goals each for Jeff Carter and Scott Hartnell as the Flyers rolled to a 5-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres.
30 carries for 130 yards and 20 passes for 222 yards last year for fullback Harold Lewis with the Seahawks. The Eagles are talking to the free agent.
1 as in No. 1, coach of the year in the Big East is none other than Villanova’s Jay Wright.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Hey, how ’bout those Flyers? Anything to not talk about the Eagles. Well, La Salle and Temple kick off their A-10 Tournament play later today.
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I Don’t Get It: Police in Philadelphia are on the hunt for a man who has been groping schoolgirls in the Germantown section. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to Margery Good of Cochranville, Chester County, and her dog Charmin. The canine was named best in show at the prestigious “Crufts” show in Birmingham, England.
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Quote Box: “Instead of fish, they sent us a dead person.”
-- Owner of Philadelphia pet shop that got a shipment yesterday that contained a human body, not the exotic fish they were expecting.
50,000 dollar bail for the 23-year-old suspect charged in the beating of a 74-year-old man in a long-simmering Upper Darby neighborhood feud.
13, age of eighth grader at St. Andrew School in Upper Darby charged in a plot to commit terrorist acts at the school.
17 to 35 years in jail for Quentin Johnson, the Chester man charged with strangling another man and then disposing his body like a “piece of trash.”
15 months of sleepless nights that ended yesterday for the Malley family when Army Pfc. John Malley IV was welcomed home at Philadelphia International Airport after a tour in Iraq. Welcome home, soldier.
0 percent wage hike in the first 2 years of a 4-year deal offered to their city union by SEPTA in contract talks. There are raises of 2 percent in each of the final 2 years.
3 percent, 4 percent, 4.5 percent and 5 percent raises, what the union is seeking in their counter-offer.
30,000 dollars in the hole, what the oldest free library in the U.S., which happens to be located in Darby Borough, finds itself. And that is despite $8,000 in donations that have come in since their plight first surfaced.
4.81 percent tax millage hike now being looked at in Rose Tree Media School District. That’s down from a 6.33 hike in their original budget plan.
2,400 candidates who filed nominating petitions at the county courthouse by yesterday’s deadline to be eligible for the May primary.
11 Delco businesses being cited by the state Department of Revenue for owing back taxes.
19.2 percent dip in revenue for Atlantic City casinos in February. That’s an all-time record decline in the state’s 30-year history of legalized gambling.
400 million dollars, what N.J. Gov. Jon Corzine wants to save through furloughs, wage freezes and possible layoffs. He’s also hiking taxes on those with incomes more than $500,000, and hiking taxes on liquor and cigarettes.
8,000 in electronics goods believed ripped off by a contractor who was working on the closeout at Circuit City stores. Police say the Florida contractor stole laptops and other goods from the Berwyn store.
1 winning ticket sold in the final drawing in the Match 6 Pennsylvnia lottery Tuesday night.
2 dollars a pop, what it will cost to play the new Super 7 drawing, which replaces Match 6. Tickets are on sale now, first drawing Friday night.
3 to 23 months of house arrest for a former assistant D.A. in Bucks County charged with corrupting teen boys.
9 dead, including 4 in one family, in a shooting rampage in Alabama.
10 people killed when a teen gunman dressed in black combat gear invaded a school in Germany this morning.
150 years in prison, what Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff is looking at when he enters a guilty plea to charges he swindled hundreds of investors out of billions.
379 point gain yesterday for the Dow, a ray of hope on a barren economic landscape.
11,600 jobs being slashed by helicopter maker United Technologies Corp in Connecticut.
2 goals each for Jeff Carter and Scott Hartnell as the Flyers rolled to a 5-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres.
30 carries for 130 yards and 20 passes for 222 yards last year for fullback Harold Lewis with the Seahawks. The Eagles are talking to the free agent.
1 as in No. 1, coach of the year in the Big East is none other than Villanova’s Jay Wright.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Hey, how ’bout those Flyers? Anything to not talk about the Eagles. Well, La Salle and Temple kick off their A-10 Tournament play later today.
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I Don’t Get It: Police in Philadelphia are on the hunt for a man who has been groping schoolgirls in the Germantown section. I don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to Margery Good of Cochranville, Chester County, and her dog Charmin. The canine was named best in show at the prestigious “Crufts” show in Birmingham, England.
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Quote Box: “Instead of fish, they sent us a dead person.”
-- Owner of Philadelphia pet shop that got a shipment yesterday that contained a human body, not the exotic fish they were expecting.
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