| Camden program lets youths build a future Apr 30th 2012, 06:05 As she pulls glue off a metal scraper while laying tiles in a second-floor bedroom of a Camden public housing unit, 17-year-old Briana Russ brushes her bangs to the side with her forearm. | | Trial in death of Sabina Rose O'Donnell to begin Apr 30th 2012, 06:05 On the 1200 block of North Orianna Street, a narrow, almost alleylike road that juts off from Girard Avenue on the edge of Northern Liberties, the walls facing a grassy plot of land have been brightly painted with colorful flowers, butterflies, and stars. The grass is mostly clear of litter, the plantings around the trees are well-maintained, and the air smells sweet and floral. | | Freedom Tower to rise above all others in NYC Apr 30th 2012, 06:05 NEW YORK - One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper Monday. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little more than 1,250 feet high, just enough to rise over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building. | | Where al-Qaeda is, minus its leader Apr 30th 2012, 06:05 WASHINGTON - A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil. | | CAPTCHA: The secret behind those squiggly computer letters Apr 30th 2012, 06:05 If you use the Web, you have probably encountered an annoying invention called a CAPTCHA. They're the squished-up, stretched and squiggled, color-blotched collections of letters you often have to decipher before you can send an e-mail, post a comment, or buy a ticket. | | How the Police Department helps victims' families heal Apr 30th 2012, 06:00 IN THE WAKE of a homicide, "a lot goes on," said Officer Kathryn M. Battle, Homicide Unit Victims Assistance liaison, who is tasked with showing victims' families "the human side" of the Police Department. | | All stalk and no action? Not Bill Apr 30th 2012, 06:00 C ALVIN COOLIDGE once said that "persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." The fact that Councilman Bill Green is sharing a plate of Memphis nachos with his wife, Margie, on a breezy Sunday afternoon in Chestnut Hill is proof that the 30th president of the United States was right - even when it comes to Philly Democrats. | | Unsolved murders, unsettled families Apr 30th 2012, 06:00 FIVE YEARS after 18-year-old Ericka Brair's body was found decomposing in the woods in Northeast Philadelphia, the young woman remains the centerpiece in the life of her mother, Janice Collins. | | Group set for peaceful walk Apr 30th 2012, 05:48 HERE'S WHAT will be making news in Philly this week: NEIGHBORHOODS Anti-violence walk Local City Year volunteers will unite with residents of three neighborhoods on Saturday for the third annual Walk for PEACE. (Promoting Education and Community Empowerment). | | Microwave, bottles thrown from window in Olney standoff Apr 30th 2012, 05:48 Microwave, bottles thrown in Olney standoff * Clarkson Avenue near Front Street An Olney man who called 9-1-1 and claimed that there was a person stabbed in his basement held responding officers at bay in a five-hour standoff Saturday afternoon but was taken into custody without incident, according to police. | | New Jersey among several states to consider college merger Apr 30th 2012, 05:44 COLLEGE PARK, Md. - In early December, just as Gov. Christie's task force was putting the final touches on his controversial plan to overhaul New Jersey's public university system - including a merger of Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University - a similar conversation was concluding 160 miles south on I-95. | | Science Festival enlists jazz quartet Apr 30th 2012, 05:25 The jazz quartet performing Sunday at Drexel University's Mitchell Auditorium created music that you could not only hear, but see. | | 3 reassigned after police escort Apr 30th 2012, 05:25 TRENTON - Three New Jersey State Police commanders have been reassigned as officials continue to probe allegations that a caravan of luxury sports cars received an unauthorized, high-speed police escort down the Garden State Parkway, the Star-Ledger reported Sunday. | | Pa. roadwork in slow-down zone Apr 30th 2012, 05:25 HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania primary last week took down one of the state's foremost advocates for highway and bridge repairs: Richard Geist, chairman of the House Transportation Committee. | | Homeowners sick at heart over possibly huge property-tax increase Apr 30th 2012, 05:15 If the city’s property-tax valuation overhaul happens, Candace DiCarlo already has a real-estate agent lined up to sell her South Philadelphia home. “It’s going to drive people out. They’re going to ask me now to pay $5,500 a year [in property tax],” said DiCarlo, 59, a self-employed artist who lives on Broad Street near Washington Avenue. “I feel like I love the city and it doesn’t love me back.” | | A Mexican accent for S. Philly Apr 30th 2012, 05:10 Sacks Playground, in South Philly, erupted in a festival of colors, ranchera music and dance Sunday as hundreds gathered to celebrate Mexican immigrants and culture as part of the San Mateo Carnavalero festival. The highlight of the daylong festivities came when a parade of people in colorful costumes and hats — representing indigenous Indians and Mexican, French and Turkish soldiers — entered the playground on Washington Avenue near 4th Street, dancing to the sounds of cymbals and drums. | | Some tax relief programs available to residents Apr 30th 2012, 05:10 HERE’S A SNAPSHOT of the tax-relief programs available to residents: Low-income senior-citizen income-tax freeze — Seniors with an annual income of less than $23,500 for an individual or less than $31,500 for a couple can apply to freeze their taxes at the current rate. The freeze is permanent as long as their financial situation and ownership of the property doesn’t change. In 2011, 13,642 seniors used this program. | | Pet of the week is Walter Apr 30th 2012, 05:10 This week’sDaily News Pet of the Week is Walter, a 10-month-old pit-bull-terrier mix offered by the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society. Walter is social and gets along with other dogs his size. He’d be best for homes with children older than 10 and no cats. | | Deputy police commissioner faces sex-harrassment suit Apr 30th 2012, 05:00 THIS COULD get ugly. Debra Frazier, a veteran Philadelphia police captain, recently filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the city and one of the department’s top cops, Deputy Commissioner William Blackburn. | | Trial to begin for alleged killer of Sabina Rose O’Donnell Apr 30th 2012, 05:00 AFTER BEING arrested for allegedly raping and murdering 20-year-old Sabina Rose O’Donnell in June 2010, Donte D. Johnson reportedly confessed to stalking the woman through Northern Liberties for her bike and dragging her off the bike to a vacant lot behind her apartment building, where used her bra to strangle her. “I shouldn’t have did it. I shouldn’t have put my hands on her. All over a bike,” an 18-year-old Johnson said in his statement to police, which was read during his July 2010 preliminary hearing. | | Pushing the local Jacquin’s with $3 temptations Apr 30th 2012, 05:00 IN A WIRED WORLD of buying and selling online, eBay, social (and antisocial) media, Jacquin’s assistant national sales manager is a throwback to Willy Loman, the dogged character imagined in “Death of a Salesman.” Loman was a “man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine,” Arthur Miller wrote. Jason Fogg rides a Jacquin’s-supplied Black Grand Cherokee packed with posters and giveaways, but his method is as old school as his attire. Keeping with Jacquin’s philosophy, he wears a dress shirt and tie, neatly knotted at the neck. | | Temple students robbed at gunpoint Apr 30th 2012, 03:39 Five Temple University students were robbed Sunday night during a home invasion in North Philadelphia, 6ABC reported. | | NOT_FOUND_HEADLINE_Sun Apr 29 23:25:03 EDT 2012 Apr 30th 2012, 03:25 Calvin Coolidge once said that “persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” The fact that Councilman Bill Green is sharing a plate of Memphis nachos with his wife, Margie, on a breezy Sunday afternoon in Chestnut Hill is proof that the 30th president of the United States was right – even when it comes to Philly Democrats. | | Random Act of Culture at Geno's Steaks Apr 30th 2012, 01:58 The Opera Company of Philadelphia provides a sudden side of song at Geno's Steaks with a "pop-up performance" of the "Anvil Chorus" from Verdi's Il trovatore. | | Car in creek, one dead Apr 29th 2012, 22:01 One person was killed when a car overturned into a creek on Sunday in Montgomery County, a county dispatcher said. | | Tweet from Nutter’s aide was a “matter of ethics” Apr 29th 2012, 21:05 After my column ran last Thursday about the latest victims of Philadelphia parking outrages, I got a call telling me to check out a Tweet from Mark McDonald, the mayor’s press secretary. At 2:55 p.m. that day, here’s what McDonald sent out to his 1,006 Twitter followers: | | 1 dead after storm blows down St. Louis beer tent Apr 29th 2012, 10:52 High winds swept through a beer tent where 200 people gathered after a Cardinals game Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring five others. But the owner of the St. Louis bar that hosted the crowd said it was lightning _ not wind _ that killed the patron. | | Logan toddler survives a three-story fall Apr 29th 2012, 10:49 A 1-year-old baby from the city's Logan section is in stable condition after falling from a three-story window into a trash pile Saturday morning, police said. | |
