Saturday 28th January, 2012
Cabbies say Phila. wheelchair rule would break them
The Philadelphia Parking Authority's proposal to make every taxi in the city wheelchair-accessible by 2016 would drive cabbies out of business, owners and drivers said this week. The proposal, ...
Redd: 'All hands on deck' to help Camden's schools
The state Department of Education and Camden Mayor Dana L. Redd are losing patience with the lack of progress in the Camden School District. The list of failures is long, starting with low ...
Anti-bully law in N.J. must change or go, panel rules
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Synagogue attack case widens
Philly.comHACKENSACK, N.J. - Authorities leveled additional charges Friday against a teenager accused in the firebombings of two North Jersey synagogues, saying he had plotted a similar attack on a Jewish ...
Sandusky seeks court OK to see his grandchildren
Philly.comBELLEFONTE, Pa. - The former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach charged with child molestation asked a court Friday for permission to see his grandchildren. Jerry ...
Ex-warden pleads guilty in gun cover-up
Philly.comThe former warden of the Federal Detention Center in Center City pleaded guilty Friday to obstruction of justice and related offenses in connection with an incident in which a guard accidentally ...
Bathroom scrawl puts Archbishop Wood on alert
Philly.comA threatening note scrawled on a bathroom wall at Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster prompted officials to search all students entering school Friday morning. The note was found Thursday ...
Pottstown gives UGGs the boot
Philly.comThey may evoke a Herman Munster aesthetic, but UGG boots - and their assorted imitators - never seemed particularly monstrous. Not until a few students at Pottstown Middle School started using the ...
Child murder trial set for May as judge refuses to dismiss charges
Philly.comA Montgomery County Court judge refused Friday to dismiss charges against accused child-killer James Lee Troutman despite defense claims that writings seized by police from the defendant's jail ...
Philly School District's financial assurances leave city controller Butkovitz unsatisfied
Philly.comIn a letter to City Controller Alan Butkovitz, Recovery Officer Thomas E. Knudsen stressed that the district "is very much a going concern and the district's management and governing board ...
Not-so-happy hour: Proposal to keep Philly bars open to benefit schools draws fire
Philly.comBartender Kristie Matt, pulling a draft beer at Brownie's in Old City, says moving the closing time to 3 a.m. could result in "an extra hour for ...
Black market for porcupine meat spurs hunting issue in Pa.
Philly.comHARRISBURG - After lifting a ban on porcupine hunting, the Pennsylvania Game Commission ran into a thorny problem: reports of a new black market for the rodents' meat in Southeast Asia. ...
Drunken driver gets 7 years for killing Shore-bound woman
Philly.comA Sicklerville resident has been sentenced to seven years in prison for vehicular homicide and drunken driving after killing a Western Pennsylvania woman headed to the Jersey Shore in a 2009 ...
Ohio man sues Camden diocese over alleged abuse, using repressed-memory claim
Philly.comAn Ohio man who alleges he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest in the early 1970s but repressed all memory of the assaults is using the "late discovery" feature of New Jersey's ...
Cameras reduce Garden State Parkway toll cheats
Philly.comWOODBRIDGE, N.J. - Violations have dropped from 9 percent to 3 percent since photo enforcement began targeting toll cheats in the exact-change lanes of the Garden State Parkway. Enforcement began ...
In Bucks, 2 dead in 'love rectangle'
Philly.comIt was, the district attorney said, "a love rectangle." Around 5:25 a.m. Friday in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, Lloyd Hill, 41, stabbed to death his estranged wife, Stefanie Lynn ...
Phila. man, newly paroled, shot dead in West Chester
Philly.comA 23-year-old Philadelphia man had been released from state prison for less than a month when he became the second victim of a homicide this week in Chester County. Police said a volley of gunfire ...
Phila. man, 22, charged in 2008 killing of guidance counselor
Philly.comA Philadelphia man has been charged in the 2008 killing of a Philadelphia School District guidance counselor who was gunned down in the driveway of his Yeadon home. Eddie Poindexter Tate, 22, of ...
Snow gives the region the cold shoulder
Philly.comAfter 116 inches of snow in the last two winters, the decision was just cold logic. This year, the Voorhees True Value store would "go heavy on the rock salt," manager Ron Rago said, ...
Sixers get some rest for starters in 89-72 win over Charlotte
Philly.comRecently 76ers coach Doug Collins has been trying to figure out when, during the course of this compressed season, he will be able to rest his players. He probably never thought he would find that ...
New fire-expert analysis allowed in father's 1990 arson conviction
Philly.comA federal appeals court ruled Friday that a man who contends that he was wrongfully convicted of setting a 1989 fire that killed his daughter may have a prominent fire expert examine any remaining ...
Sixers get win, rest some key players
Philly.comAn early lead allowed the Sixers to rest some key players during their 89-72 win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday. John Mitchell of the Inquirer reports from the Wells Fargo ...
GOP rivals pursue Hispanic voters
Philly.comMIAMI - The Republican presidential rivals courted influential Hispanic voters in South Florida on Friday with promises to improve immigration laws and focus on Latin America, as a new poll ...
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