| Woman, 92, fatally struck by car in Cherry Hill May 18th 2012, 07:40 A 92-year-old woman was fatally struck by a car Thursday when a fellow resident of a Cherry Hill senior housing complex lost control of the vehicle in the facility’s parking lot, township police said. Rose Weber, who was pushing a walker in the lot of the Raymond and Gertrude R. Saltzman House in the 1400 block of Springdale Road, died at the scene shortly before 3 p.m. Authorities believe Shirley Braverman, 82, “stepped on the gas instead of the brake” while backing out of a space on the north end of the parking lot, Lt. Sean Redmond said. | | Cherry Hill woman with walker struck, killed in parking lot May 18th 2012, 07:40 A 92-year-old woman was fatally struck by a car Thursday when a fellow resident of a Cherry Hill senior housing complex lost control of the vehicle in the facility’s parking lot, township police said. Rose Weber, who was pushing a walker in the lot of the Raymond and Gertrude R. Saltzman House in the 1400 block of Springdale Road, died at the scene shortly before 3 p.m. Authorities believe Shirley Braverman, 82, “stepped on the gas instead of the brake” while backing out of a space on the north end of the parking lot, said Lt. Sean Redmond. | | Philly resident reflects on life at age 102 May 18th 2012, 06:08 At Thursday’s 12th annual Centenarian Celebration luncheon, Roxborough resident Daniel Rendine, age 102, answered a few questions, with help from his son. Question: Why do you think you’ve lived so long? | | Surface parking lots hurt more than they help May 18th 2012, 06:07 Back in 1993, Philadelphia committed a radical act. It opened a new downtown convention center without a single public parking space. Despite the modest inconvenience, the city’s hospitality industry exploded. Suburbanites flocked in for the popular flower show and other special events, often choosing to take the train instead of driving. Since then, the city’s fortunes have picked up and more cultural attractions have opened, yet the city’s resolve to limit parking has weakened. Both the Kimmel Center and the National Constitution Center included garages in their buildings, although they smartly took pains to hide them underground. But increasingly, aboveground garages are being built close to these venues, and recently a 530-car behemoth was sanctioned for next door to the Convention Center — one block from City Hall. | | Prosecutors rest in Philly clergy sex abuse trial May 18th 2012, 06:05 After calling nearly 50 witnesses and presenting close to 1,900 documents over eight weeks, prosecutors on Thursday rested their case in the landmark trial involving child sex abuse by Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests. | | EVERYTHING MUST GO May 18th 2012, 06:05 OCEAN CITY, N.J. - Luxury appointments abound in the 7,000-square-foot, 12-year-old Victorian-style mansion overlooking Great Bay, such as a marble fireplace that once graced a Biddle estate mansion, a crystal chandelier that at the touch of a button lowers from the 30-foot foyer ceiling for cleaning, and boat slips big enough to berth a pair of yachts. | | Position will help activist fight youth violence May 18th 2012, 06:05 Being raised in tough neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Jamira Burley learned firsthand the impact of drugs and violence on families in the city. Two of her brothers served time in prison on robbery charges. A third brother was shot to death in his home. | | More than half of children born in a year are minorities May 18th 2012, 06:05 Valeria Galarza, program manager for the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids, did not need Thursday's high-profile announcement by the U.S. Census Bureau to learn that minorities now account for more than half of American newborns. | | DONNA SUMMER 1948-2012 May 18th 2012, 06:05 NEW YORK - Michael Jackson was the King of Pop. Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul. Like them, Donna Summer, who died Thursday of lung cancer at 63, was given a title befitting musical royalty: Queen of Disco. | | Accused panties thief now charged in mall up-skirting incident May 18th 2012, 05:36 A Montgomery County man, arrested earlier this year for stealing the underwear of a woman he was allegedly stalking, was charged this week with using a hidden camera to film up the skirt of another woman at the King of Prussia Plaza. | | A Q&A with Anne O’Callaghan May 18th 2012, 05:36 After heading the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians for almost a decade, Anne O’Callaghan recently handed the reins to a new chief executive officer at the nonprofit immigrant-services organization she created with $90,000 in grants in 2003. Today, its budget is $1.6 million. Over the years it has trained thousands of legal immigrants in English and job skills, and placed 1,100 in jobs. | | Delco police officer charged with Tasering handcuffed teen May 18th 2012, 05:33 The Delaware County district attorney brought charges Thursday against a Colwyn Borough police officer who allegedly Tasered a handcuffed 17-year-old while the teenager was shackled in a jail cell, and then made fun of the incident in a text message to another officer. Cpl. Trevor Parham of Upper Darby was charged Thursday with simple assault and official oppression, both misdemeanors, the District Attorney’s Office said. He was released on $25,000 unsecured bail. | | Stock offering sets Facebook value at $104 billion May 18th 2012, 05:31 It was the stock market event of the year, sure to make millions of dollars for venture capitalists, investment banks and other financiers, and billions for Facebook's founders and earliest backers. | | Colwyn cop arrested for Tasering teen May 18th 2012, 05:00 COLWYN POLICE Cpl. Trevor Parham said the movie he was making with his identical-twin brother would be “like the black ‘Godfather.’ ” After his arrest Thursday, he may be gaining the right experience to make the film. | | Rule One for Nutter aide: Don’t mess with the playlist May 18th 2012, 05:00 If Mayor Nutter’s personal aide has one rule to live by, it’s this: “Don’t mess with the playlist.” “There’s some room for requests, but he drives the music choice,” said Luke Butler, 28, who recently finished a two-year gig as Nutter’s special assistant — a job that meant he spent more time with the mayor than anyone else in city government, traveling with him to meetings and events and listening to Nutter relive his former DJ days in the car. | | Family pleads for answers in Lawndale man’s murder May 18th 2012, 04:55 IN THE LAWNDALE apartment complex where her 22-year-old son, Lawrence Jackson, was gunned down April 12, Denise Wilson looked to the sky during a vigil for her son Thursday and uttered a plea. “If anybody saw anything that night, please say something,” she told residents who peeked out their third-floor windows at the crowd of about 75 who gathered at the complex on Oxford Avenue near Levick Street. “I’m begging y’all. Please.” | | Cop speaks of ‘mangled little bodies’ from crash scene May 18th 2012, 04:55 DEFENSE attorneys for two men charged with murdering four people with a car speeding away from an armed robbery persuaded a judge Thursday to bar the most graphic death-scene photos from the trial. The photos of the severed limbs and crushed bones of the three children and young mother killed on the sidewalk at 3rd and Annsbury streets on June 10, 2009, would serve no purpose other than to inflame jurors’ passions, said attorneys for Ivan Rodriguez, 23, and Donta Craddock, 21, who are charged with four counts of second-degree murder. | | N.J. to consider marijuana decriminalization bill May 18th 2012, 04:22 TRENTON — An Assembly panel is set to hear a bill Monday that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, making the offense similar to a parking violation. The bill, which has 18 sponsors, including three Republicans, would punish anyone caught with a half-ounce or less of marijuana with fines instead of arrest. Currently, marijuana possession is a disorderly-persons offense — the equivalent of a misdemeanor — and is punishable by up to six months in jail, $1,000 in fines, and a criminal record that cannot be expunged for five years. | | Crime gangs that targeted Asians May 18th 2012, 04:05 The different Philadelphia crews who have robbed Asian business owners include: Nuri Murray, Cheron Humphrey, Shawn Davis and Rickey Phillips, of Southwest Philly. | | Donna Summer, a disco diva who defined an era May 18th 2012, 03:25 The news of Donna Summer’s passing Thursday at age 63 shook me to my dancing shoes. Of all the so-called disco divas, I thought Summer would be the one to live forever. Ah, disco. The pulsating beat exploded onto the music scene in the mid-’70s like the inferno the Trammps sang about. A mirrored, rotating cherry bomb that just as quickly flamed out. Those one-hit wonders it produced, so relevant then, forgotten now. (Alicia Bridges? Dorothy Moore? Somebody? Anybody?) | | Philadelphia conducts new homeless census May 18th 2012, 03:20 In an attempt to get a more complete picture of homelessness in Philadelphia, more than 50 volunteers fanned out to all corners of the city Wednesday night and counted 583 people living on the streets. Usually, the city only includes Center City, Philadelphia International Airport, and a few select neighborhoods in its quarterly count of unsheltered homeless people. But this time, more people were enlisted to reach more areas of the city. | | Ex-Montco detective charged with stealing guns, drugs May 18th 2012, 02:20 A former detective-sergeant in the Hatboro Police Department stands accused of stealing firearms, cash, and narcotics from the police evidence room, and also of using a police informant to buy illegal drugs for him. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that John Becker, 42, of Horsham, had been arraigned before District Judge Paul Leo on numerous charges and had been released on $10,000 bail pending further court action in Montgomery County. | | Time for pols to joke for charity May 18th 2012, 01:20 With warm weather bringing out swimsuits, it’s time to think about fitness, and a return to the gym. So there I was at the gym, and there it was, up against the wall, a gleaming new machine I hit hard for half-an-hour. It had everything I wanted: | | Judge dismisses conspiracy count against Monsignor, priest May 18th 2012, 00:43 After calling nearly 50 witnesses and presenting close to 1,900 documents over eight weeks, prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the landmark trial involving child sexabuse by Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests. The team of district attorneys ended by letting jurors handle what they contend is the closest thing to a smoking gun in the case: a tattered gray folder that had been hidden away in a locked safe at archdiocesan offices for more than a decade. | | Woman pleads guilty in Chesco slaying May 17th 2012, 23:08 Melanie Ann Ray, accused of participating with her boyfriend in the shooting death of another man to steal his truck, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Wednesday in Chester County Court. | | Asian Pacific American festival Saturday May 17th 2012, 22:25 Thousands of people are expected to converge on Franklin Square Park, at 6th and Race streets in Center City, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday for the sixth-annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Festival. Highlights include a children’s fair and other kids’ activities, music and artistic performances. Various cultural and other organizations will host information booths. May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. | | 2 dead in overnight violence in Philadelphia May 17th 2012, 21:36 A 52-year-old man was stabbed to death in West Philadelphia and a 31-year-old woman was shot in the head and fatally wounded in East Mount Airy in violence overnight, police said. | | Person killed by Amtrak NE corridor train May 17th 2012, 18:23 A person was struck and killed today by northbound Amtrak train in Claymont, Del. Danelle Hunter, an Amtrak spokeswoman, said the person was hit about noon by a train en route to Boston from Richmond, Va., with 429 passengers on board. | | Powerball ticket sold in NJ scores for $1 million May 17th 2012, 18:04 No one won Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot but a ticket sold in New Jersey scored for $1 million. The New Jersey Lottery says the ticket was sold at the Super Stop & Shop, 24 Summerfield Blvd., South Brunswick, Middlesex County. | | On the lookout for drugged drivers May 17th 2012, 17:44 Add another D to the report card for the nation’s most dangerous drivers: Drugged. Drunk and distracted drivers have rightly raised of hue and cry, but more and more, those who patrol the highways are on the lookout for those driving under other influences. | | Healthy helping of laughter and food in 'The Cooking Show' May 17th 2012, 17:34 Performance artist Robert Karimi, in character as chef Mero Cocinero Karimi, makes a claim as big as a half-pound bacon cheeseburger: He can teach people to improve their diets without ever uttering such unappetizing words as healthy or nutritious. During a cooking demonstration at Reading Terminal Market on Tuesday, he proved his point by persuading two 11-year-olds, waffle cones in hand, to put a dollop of his radish-greens, mint, onion, and lime dip on top of their ice cream. Sometimes, success lasts only as long as ice cream on the tongue. | | Peco lists neighborhoods, townships for tree pruning May 17th 2012, 16:37 Peco Energy announced Thursday it would prune the trees along 300 miles of aerial electric lines in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties to improve electric service reliability for about 80,000 customers. | | 3 injured in 4-car pileup on MLK Drive May 17th 2012, 14:53 Three people were injured, one critically, in a four-car pileup on the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Fairmount Park. Police are investigating the cause of the 8:20 a.m. crash near Montgomery Drive. Fire Department medics took three people to area hospitals, one of them in critical condition, a spokesman said. The pileup blocked the MLK Drive for a time. | |
