The Daily Numbers: 30 shots fired during an incident at 10th and Booth early this morning in which a man was critically wounded.
17, age of girl seriously injured in a car crash in Middletown in which the car she was riding in plowed into a pole.
29, age of man who escaped while being processed at the Darby Police Station who is now back in custody.
25,000 dollars worth of stuff cleaned out of several homes in the Brandywine Hundred section of Delaware. Neighbors grabbed the suspect and held him until police arrived. Good for them.
1, as in the first of September, and the 1st day of school for kids in the Ridley School District. As is their custom, Ridley starts the school year before Labor Day.
15,000 dollars, estimated value of Phillies World Series Ring missing from a men’s room at Citizens Bank Park, where it was left by a team employee. When he went back, the bauble with 103 diamonds encrusted in it, was gone.
23 pages in the opinion in which a federal court shot down Delaware’s plan for expanded legalized sports betting. All you can do is the same parlay on multiple games you’ve been able to do since 1976. Single-game wagers are out.
21, age of woman who reported being attacked at 21st and Locust streets in the Rittenhouse Square section of Philadelphia. She fended him off by using mace.
100 fewer fresmen this year in the entering class at Cabrini College in Radnor.
39, age of woman in Philadelphia convicted of running a prostitution operation along with her daughter. They sold their bodies to an undercover cop for $200.
1,400 bucks, how much a high school teacher in Colts Neck, N.J., reportedly was paid to improve the grades of several students. He now faces theft by deception charges.
62033-066, that’s how he’s now known to prison employees. You might know him as former powerful state Sen. Vince Fumo, who reported to the slammer Monday.
5 foot long alligator that continues to elude capture in a pond in Stacy Park in Trenton.
16 people who were ticketed yesterday during first day of crackdown on illegal parking on the shoulder of I-95 near Philadelphia International Airport, where people sometimes wait for arriving flights.
46, age of man in Delaware charged with dumping gasoline on a woman during a domestic incident.
4, as in No. 4, where the Philly region stands in terms of the biggest TV markets in the nation. Only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are above it.
57,000 dollars, average annual pay for a secondary school teacher in the Philadelphia metro area, according to a new study.
4 bank robbers in Bear, Del., who didn’t get very far, at least not in their getaway car. They left the keys in the bank they had just held up.
1 in 10 binge drinkers who still manage to get behind the wheel during one of their benders, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
2, as in No. 2 QB. That would be Kevin Kolb. He will start Thursday night in the Eagles final exhibition game. Michael Vick will play in the second half. Donovan McNabb has the night off.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Since Donovan McNabb is skipping the Birds’ exhibition finale against the Jets, maybe he also can refrain from any gestures to show how he feels about the Eagles’ inept offense.
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I Don’t Get It: Why is it that anytime a sports figure creates any kind of controversy (are you listening, Donovan?) it always turns out to be the media’s fault?
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Today’s Upper: Serious kudos to the band of neighbors down in Brandywine Hundred in Delaware who corralled a burglary suspect who had looted several homes and held him until the cops arrived.
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Quote Box: “There are good ideas out there. I hate that it is getting so polarized.”
- Upper Darby resident Kathleen McGuigan, at Monday night’s town hall meeting on health care reform featuring Rep. Joe Sestak and others in downtown Philly.