The Daily Numbers: 4 children who claim they were indecently touched by a clinical psychologist they were seeing through the Delaware County Juvenile Court.
3 people charged with drug-dealing in Clifton Heights.
2 kids, ages 9 and 10, police say were left home alone in Chester. Their mother now faces endangerment charges.
3 hours, how long I-95 South from Chester to the Delaware state line was closed overnight to remove wreckage from a tractor-trailer crash that created traffic nightmares yesterday morning.
5 residents who spoke last night in opposition to huge billboards being proposed in Springfield. Developer Thaddeus Bartkowski made the case for the huge signs.
18 teachers and 21 outstanding students honored last night at the annual Partners in Learning banquet at the Drexelbrook. Quite a night.
14,000 bars, restaurants and clubs that could host legal video poker machines under new legislation proposed in Harrisburg.
1.1 billion, how much the state would supposedly take in from video poker, with half of it going to ease tuition bills for kids attending state-owned colleges.
5 Philadelphia officers suspended with the intent to dismiss. Three of the cases involve cops using racial slurs.
50 percent of those surveyed in Philadelphia who oppose Mayor Michael Nutter’s plan to raise taxes. They’d rather see reductions in services.
12 point decline in Nutter’s popularity, according to the same poll.
17 people losing their jobs at public radio station WHYY-FM in Philly.
None of them work on the air.
30 to 50 teens who are believed to have attended a huge keg party in Abington back in February. Now a man and woman face charges for hosting the bash and supplying alcohol to minors.
6 to 23 months on work release for the Devon teen convicted in the brutal attack on a Geno’s Steaks employee.
4 week shutdown this summer for workers at the GM plant in Wilmington, Del.
22 percent jump in profits posted in the first quarter by PNC Bank.
12 developments in the Philly suburbs still up in the air after builder TH Properties announced it was temporarily closing its doors. The firm’s owner yesterday said he’s negotiating with banks to get more credit.
2.9 percent tuition hike for students at Temple next year.
0 goals surrendered last night by Martin Biron as the Flyers beat the Penguins to get back into their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series.
The Flyers now trail, 3-2.
0 hits through seven innings for the Phils, who lost to the Brewers, 6-1.
2 hits surrendered by Conestoga High grad Dave Bush, who got the win in front of a lot of family and friends.
6 strikeouts in 3 innings for Cole Hamels, who was forced out of the game in the 4th after taking a line drive in the shoulder. He should be fine.
21, where the Eagles pick in the first round of Saturday’s NFL Draft.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.You can put your hearts back in your chest now, fans. The Flyers are alive for at least one more day. And Cole Hamels says he’s fine and expects to make his next start after taking a nasty liner off his left shoulder yesterday.
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I Don’t Get It: There just seems to be something a little unseemly about the idea of using money from video gambling to fund kids’ college educations. Maybe parents should just keep buying lottery tickets.
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Today’s Upper: How about that Mother Nature. 90 degrees on Sunday? Bring it on!
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Quote Box: “The average person … is just Joe Six-Pack going into the tavern, having a couple beers and putting $20 in a machine and I don’t think there’s any harm in that.”
-- State Sen. Dante Santoni Jr., D-Berks, on move to legalize video poker in Pennsylvania bars.