| The stuff TSA takes from travelers? It goes to Harrisburg — by the ton. May 13th 2012, 07:36 HARRISBURG — Every four months, the detritus of post-9/11 America arrives by the tractor-trailer load at a warehouse here, to be sorted, priced, and sold to the highest bidder. On this particular day, the delivery from LaGuardia, Kennedy, and Newark airports landed rather indelicately, the back of the trailer cracked open like a piñata to reveal broken boxes and heaps of stuff scattered over the truck bed. | | Preventing duck boat crash would not have taken much May 13th 2012, 07:35 Ten feet. Had Matthew R. Devlin walked that far, he could have alerted his tugboat captain that he was experiencing a family emergency, in all likelihood saving the lives of two Hungarian tourists who died in the July 2010 duck-boat accident. | | Briefly... CITY/REGION May 13th 2012, 06:30 PHILADELPHIA 2 held in baby's death A man and a woman have been arrested for aelgedly killing a baby by giving him heroin and cocaine in July 2011, police said. | | Philly newspapers' publisher steps down May 13th 2012, 06:30 WELL, THAT was quick. Greg Osberg, the publisher and chief executive officer of Philadelphia Media Network - the parent company of the Daily News, Inquirer, Philly.com and SportsWeek - stepped down Friday, a little more than a month after a group of local investors bought the company for $55 million. | | Dentist held on drug rap May 13th 2012, 06:18 I NSTEAD OF HANDING out toothbrushes and dental floss, a dentist in East Mount Airy dished out prescriptions for Percocet and Oxycodone and may have treated patients while he was high on crack, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. | | The fine Philly tradition of sneaking into events May 13th 2012, 06:11 Part of the original exterior design of the University of Pennsylvania's venerable Palestra are vertical bands of rusticated limestone that offset the building's brick facade. The stonework, obviously intended to be ornamental, can look like a ladder of sorts, with exaggerated joints between the stones, just deep enough to stick a shoe in. | | High school rivalries on the City Council floor May 13th 2012, 05:38 Members of the powerhouse Neumann-Goretti boys basketball team, the three-time defending state champs and pride of South Philadelphia, went to Council on Thursday to be honored for their accomplishments. | | In Chesco, a cluster of concussions May 13th 2012, 05:19 Casey Biddle, a 15-year-old sophomore at Twin Valley High School in Chester County, can't wait to get back on the soccer field next fall. | | Camden schools chief could get buyout May 13th 2012, 05:18 The Camden City Board of Education is set to vote Tuesday on a buyout package for Superintendent Bessie LaFra Young, who has drawn sharp criticism for having called out sick for the equivalent of more than a school year of time since being hired five years ago. | | Barnes opening a Super Bowl in arts marketing May 13th 2012, 05:18 When the Barnes Foundation opens its doors to the public Saturday, it not only will introduce visitors to a new gallery on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway; it could well serve as a gateway to Philadelphia's mélange of museums, galleries, art schools, historic sites, and gardens. | | Daunting problems, undaunted parents May 13th 2012, 05:17 Reduced to bare numbers, the story of Katie seems impossible. Age: 91/2 years. Height: 29 inches. Weight: Less than 11 pounds. | | A huge step but no real action May 13th 2012, 05:17 As President Obama's motorcade knifed through Seattle on Thursday afternoon, it passed a woman sitting on the grass, a baby on her lap. She held up a yellow posterboard with a message spelled out in black marker: "Thank You! Mr. President for standing up for my Mommys." | | Joint Base air show has the crowd flying high May 13th 2012, 04:46 In a daring display of aerial acrobatics, Sgt. Timothy O’Neil jumped from a plane and drifted to the ground with an American flag rippling in the wind behind him. “The Star-Spangled Banner” swelled and the crowd at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Open House and Air Show stood spellbound as O’Neil, a 26-year-old member of the U.S. Army Golden Knight precision parachute team, hit the ground on the anthem’s last note. | | Delanco fights for river trails May 13th 2012, 04:44 Soon after workers finished creating scenic trails along the Delaware, Delanco’s town lawyer received surprising news: The state agency that usually champions such projects was seeking a court order to stop it. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, a vast agency that advocates for nature and open space, was fulfilling its less-popular duty of selecting places to deposit the river’s murky dredge spoils. | | A closer look at Bob Mellow’s plea deal May 13th 2012, 04:38 Former State Sen. Robert J. Mellow may be disgraced, cast from power and marking time until he is sentenced on a federal corruption charge, but he may still come out a winner financially. As detailed in his guilty plea agreement Wednesday and in a report from the state Ethics Commission, federal and state investigators focused on Mellow’s ownership of a office building outside Scranton that served as his legislative office. | | Pincus auction raises millions for foundation May 13th 2012, 04:37 David N. Pincus, the Philadelphia clothing manufacturer and philanthropist, joked a few years ago about the soaring value of the art that he and his wife, Geraldine, had collected over the years. “You know, I bought and sold things for some wild numbers,” said Pincus, who died in December at age 85. | | Whither political Islam? May 13th 2012, 03:24 The presidential candidates confronted each other in front of the TV cameras for four hours on Thursday, with only two breaks of about 30 minutes. They argued about security, the economy, education — and the role of sharia law. The location was Cairo. The more secular candidate, former diplomat Amr Moussa, accused his opponent of being an Islamist hard-liner in moderate’s clothing. The Islamist, former Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, accused Moussa of complicity in the former Hosni Mubarak regime. | | On gay rights, a historic shift May 13th 2012, 03:23 To borrow a phrase from the poet T.S. Eliot, it’s likely that the gay-marriage issue will impact the 2012 presidential race not with a bang, but a whimper. | | Customers drop by doughnut shop to wish burned worker well May 13th 2012, 00:00 Minutes before the Fresh Donuts shop on Lancaster Avenue closed Saturday, Tamara Harris and her daughter, Tanjanique, 16, stopped in. They wanted to give a get-well card to shop employee Sokchea Luy, 27. “I couldn’t believe someone would do something like that,” said Tamara Harris, who is a crossing guard at a nearby school and stops by daily for coffee and something to eat. “These are really nice people.” | | Police shoot, kill man who pointed gun at them May 12th 2012, 02:00 POLICE RESPONDING to several calls about a person with a gun shot and killed an unidentified 33-year-old man in North Philadelphia late Thursday night, after he reportedly pointed a gun at them, police said yesterday. Chief Inspector Scott Small said two responding officers from the 25th District, headquartered on Whitaker Avenue near Erie, spotted a man matching the description of the man with the weapon at 10th and Ontario streets shortly after 11:30 p.m. He was carrying a .357 Magnum revolver with a long barrel in his waistband, police said. | | Osberg out as PMN CEO, Hall in May 12th 2012, 02:00 WELL, THAT was quick. Greg Osberg, the publisher and chief executive officer of Philadelphia Media Network — the parent company of the Daily News, Inquirer, Philly.com and SportsWeek— stepped down on Friday, a little more than a month after a group of local investors bought the company for $55 million. | | Cops: His weapon was coffee May 12th 2012, 02:00 A52-YEAR-OLD MAN who allegedly hurled a scalding hot cup of coffee at a doughnut-shop employee and fled in a tan Cadillac — which matched his suit — has been identified by police as David Timbers of Mantua. Timbers got in an argument with a female employee at Fresh Donuts on Lancaster Avenue near 39th Tuesday about 11 a.m. about whether he had paid for a sandwich, police said. | |
