| FDA panel recommends new diet drug Qnexa Feb 23rd 2012, 07:54 | For 10 years, Louis Aronne has been giving patients a combination of phentermine, a 50-year-old stimulant widely used to control appetite, and topiramate, a newer antiseizure drug, to help them lose weight. | | Jury selection set to conclude in Rutgers webcam case Feb 23rd 2012, 07:53 | NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Jury selection is expected to wrap up Thursday in the trial of Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student charged with using his computer webcam to secretly view his dormitory roommate in a sexual encounter with another man. | | Flag veto comes back at Christie Feb 23rd 2012, 07:49 | PALISADES PARK, N.J. - A month before his controversial order to honor the late Whitney Houston by flying flags at half-staff, Gov. Christie rejected a bill that would have required the deaths of active New Jersey service members to be reported to local and county leaders to ensure a similar show of respect. | | Santorum not letting new strength in GOP race temper his words Feb 23rd 2012, 07:47 | Most candidates who emerge from the relative shadows to take the lead in a presidential campaign start to throttle back on the rhetorical thunderbolts and settle into a groove with a winning script full of phrases predigested by pollsters and focus groups. | | Romney, Santorum trade charges Feb 23rd 2012, 07:44 | MESA, Ariz. - Primed for a fight, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum traded fiery accusations about health care, spending earmarks, and federal bailouts Wednesday night in the 20th debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination. | | After braving 'Killing Fields,' cancer kills cop Feb 23rd 2012, 07:34 | POLICE OFFICER Ray Keo, the first Cambodian-American to work in the Philadelphia Police Department, suffered through the horrors of the "Killing Fields" period in his native country. | | Ronnie Polaneczky: Caveman views on women's health Feb 23rd 2012, 07:34 | I WAS GOING to begin this column as a plea to Rick Santorum to shut the hell up already. Stop, I was going to beg Sen. McSweaterVest, with the nonsense that contraception is evil "because it's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." | | Some tips for PGW Feb 23rd 2012, 07:33 | PHILADELPHIA Gas Works says that its lien program is legal. But the utility is blindsiding landlords across the city. Here are some suggestions to make the system fairer: | | Briefly... CITY/REGION Feb 23rd 2012, 07:33 | PHILADELPHIA Museum zoning OK'd Proposed zoning changes sponsored by City Councilman Mark Squilla to allow construction of a Museum of the American Revolution, at 3rd and Chestnut streets, were approved yesterday by Council's rules committee. | | Tattle: Adele's '21' sets a chart record Feb 23rd 2012, 07:33 | ADELE-MANIA CONTINUES. The British singer's "21" has spent 21 weeks atop Billboard's top-200 albums chart, and its 21st week is the best yet in terms of sales. Nielsen SoundScan reports that "21" sold 730,000 copies the week after Adele's Grammy sweep on Feb. 12. It's the longest stint for a woman at the top of Billboard's album chart, ironically displacing Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard." | | At Pa. hearing on cuts in college aid, Christie's added college funding is praised Feb 23rd 2012, 07:12 | What a difference a trip across the Delaware River could make for college students and their tuition-paying parents. Gov. Christie this week proposed a 5.5 percent increase in New Jersey's funding for state colleges and universities, plus a $28 million ramp-up in financial aid for students and a $1 million aid program to help inner-city students get to college. | | Ready to explode over gas-bill liens Feb 23rd 2012, 07:04 | MOVE OVER, Philadelphia Parking Authority! There's a new city agency vying for the title of most-hated bureaucracy. Landlords are raging against the Philadelphia Gas Works - some are vowing to sell their properties - following Friday's Daily News article about how the city-owned utility uses liens to shake down landlords for their deadbeat tenants' delinquent gas bills. | | Med tech was drinking firm's drugs, cops say Feb 23rd 2012, 07:04 | ADREXEL HILL medical technician's drinking and drug problem were one and the same, according to Upper Darby police, who arrested the man Saturday for allegedly stealing morphine and fentanyl syringes from his employer that he then emptied and drank as painkiller cocktails. | | Cops arrest Mom who left her baby for dead Feb 23rd 2012, 07:04 | PATRICIA "Dina" Crawley, who allegedly left her newborn girl in a cardboard box in North Philly in December, was arrested yesterday on charges of attempted murder, said Officer Jillian Russell, a police spokeswoman. | | Son rats on Mom for sex with teen friend, cops say Feb 23rd 2012, 07:04 | WHEN HER teenage son caught her having sex with his 15-year-old friend and the son reported the incident to school officials, Terri Mezzatesta came up with a wild story, police said. | | Son finds mother dead, father unconscious Feb 23rd 2012, 07:04 | Man finds mother dead, father unconscious * Winfield Avenue near West Chester Pike, Upper Darby A taxi driver found his mother dead and his father unconscious in an apparent murder-suicide attempt yesterday at their home behind the Upper Darby police station, cops said. | | Correction Feb 23rd 2012, 07:04 | CORRECTION A photo caption in yesterday's paper misidentified the agency that resettled Iraqi refugee Bahjat Abdulwahed and his wife, Hayfaa Ibrahem Abdulqader. It is the Nationalities Service Center. | | Doubt cast on Camden rape complaint Feb 23rd 2012, 07:02 | Hours after an alleged sexual assault Wednesday sent law enforcement officers, some with dogs, scouring an area of Camden where there have been three other such assaults in recent weeks, authorities cast doubt on the complaint. | | Groundbreaking for Smithsonian's Museum of African American History Feb 23rd 2012, 06:43 | President Obama led a parade of dignitaries at a festive groundbreaking for the Smithsonian's Museum of African American History and Culture Wednesday morning, with many expressing hopes that it can be a vehicle for understanding and healing on the still-fraught subject of race. | | Chester High, Big 5 legend killed by car Feb 23rd 2012, 06:40 | Local hoops legend Alonzo Lewis, who died tragically Tuesday night after he was hit by a car, still owes old friend John Chaney milk from the days they would bet bottles of it on one-on-one pickup games at the Palestra. | | Tepper jurors deliberate for a full day Feb 23rd 2012, 05:34 | The jury in the murder trial of former Philadelphia Police Officer Frank Tepper - charged with shooting his Port Richmond neighbor following a 2009 melee - ended its first full day of deliberations Wednesday. | | Occupy movement plans Phila. assembly Feb 23rd 2012, 05:34 | A breakaway group from the Occupy Wall Street movement is organizing a national assembly in Philadelphia around the Fourth of July to draft a petition for "redress of grievances." | | Lower Merion schools, police probe ‘I’m Shmacked’ video Feb 23rd 2012, 04:04 | Lower Merion school officials are warning parents about an outfit that posted a YouTube video of local high school and college students engaging in what appears to be underage drinking and illegal drug use under the name "I'm Shmacked." | | Doubt cast on Camden rape complaint Feb 23rd 2012, 03:29 | Hours after an alleged sexual assault Wednesday sent law enforcement officers, some with dogs, scouring an area of Camden where there have been three other such assaults in recent weeks, authorities cast doubt on the complaint. | | Flag veto comes back at Christie Feb 23rd 2012, 03:23 | PALISADES PARK, N.J. - A month before his controversial order to honor the late Whitney Houston by flying flags at half-staff, Gov. Christie rejected a bill that would have required the deaths of active New Jersey service members to be reported to local and county leaders to ensure a similar show of respect. | |
