| U.S. gives apologies for Quran burnings Feb 22nd 2012, 08:44 | BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Word that NATO personnel had burned an undisclosed number of Qurans and were preparing to dispose of many more by incineration set off an angry protest here Tuesday. NATO officials rushed to apologize publicly and profusely, trying to head off what they feared could be a nationwide outburst of violence as news of the burning was gradually broadcast across the country. | | Online sales-tax bill is introduced Feb 22nd 2012, 08:29 | TRENTON - A sales-tax exemption measure designed to encourage major online retailers to locate in New Jersey has been introduced in the Legislature. | | Allyson's petition challenge keeps rival occupied Feb 22nd 2012, 07:05 | THE FIRST Occupy movement activist to run for Congress is getting his introduction to bare-knuckles Philly-style politics. U.S. Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz, the four-term Democrat representing parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery County, is going to court in an effort to get her upstart primary challenger, Nathan Kleinman, thrown off the April 24 ballot. | | Tattle: Comcast dials up 4 minority nets Feb 22nd 2012, 07:05 | COMCAST'S TAKEOVER of pre-"Smash" NBC/Universal came with a price steeper than owning some of network television's crappiest shows. As part of its agreement with the FCC and the Department of Justice, the media giant will launch four minority-owned networks on its cable-TV systems in the next two years. | | From the Mideast to the Northeast Feb 22nd 2012, 07:05 | THE "Walter Cronkite of Iraq" lives in Northeast Philly in a second-floor apartment next to a gas station on Bustleton Avenue. | | Briefly... CITY/REGION Feb 22nd 2012, 07:05 | COURTS Abuse trial delayed Jury selection has been delayed at least a day in the landmark priest-sex-abuse trial of Monsignor William Lynn in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. | | Hit-and-run driver ID'd Feb 22nd 2012, 07:05 | Hit-run driver ID'd * Merion Avenue near 49th Street Safiyah Bankhead, 32, of Overbrook, was arrested yesterday in connection with a hit-and-run accident that left a 9-year-old girl hospitalized on Feb. 14, police said. | | Shooter's fate in hands of the jury Feb 22nd 2012, 07:04 | FRANK TEPPER sat pensively in court yesterday as his attorney and a city prosecutor took turns trying to convince a Philadelphia jury why the ex-city cop fatally shot a neighbor during a Port Richmond fight two years ago. | | Auction plot thickens Feb 22nd 2012, 07:04 | ANY SOAP OPERA worth its melodramatic music features at least one breathtaking return of a major character who's been written off the show. | | See Iraq's 'Cronkite' Feb 22nd 2012, 07:04 | WANT to hear the "Walter Cronkite of Iraq?" Bahjat Abdulwahed will speak at an event, "Muslims in America: Building Bridges in a Climate of Fear," from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St., in Center City. | | Collection-jar theft mars vigil for shooting victim Feb 22nd 2012, 07:04 | NEIGHBORS OF Franklin Manuel Santana, the man shot dead in Tacony last week in a dispute over dog droppings, held a small vigil in his honor outside his apartment last night. But the gathering was tainted by more sadness: A collection jar put in a corner store for Santana's family ended up in the wrong hands. | | Philly bracing for big cuts in Pa. budget Feb 22nd 2012, 07:04 | THE CITY'S mental-health, homeless and human-services programs would be cut to the bone should Gov. Corbett's proposed budget pass, and city officials warn that it's bad news for Philly's most vulnerable residents. | | AT COMCAST, MAKE ROOM FOR DIDDY . . . Feb 22nd 2012, 07:04 | T HE ARAB-based TV giant Al Jazeera has a decade-long love-hate relationship with the U.S. government, but the network - which includes the English-language Al Jazeera English, or AJE - proved its worth in 2011 with intrepid wall-to-wall coverage of the "Arab Spring" uprising. | | Police in New Jersey probe another school-bus crash Feb 22nd 2012, 06:15 | Authorities were called to a school-bus accident in Cumberland County, N.J., on Tuesday even as police and other investigators continued to probe last week's deadly crash involving a school bus and a dump truck in Burlington County. | | Part of gay marriage suit is reinstated Feb 22nd 2012, 06:14 | TRENTON - A New Jersey judge has reinstated a previously dismissed portion of a lawsuit from gay couples seeking to have the state recognize same-sex marriage. | | Christie proposes $32.1 billion N.J. budget with slight increases in spending Feb 22nd 2012, 06:08 | TRENTON - Armed with a rosy revenue projection, Gov. Christie proposed a $32.1 billion budget Tuesday that sprinkles additional funding throughout the state - including a modest increase for public schools and a 5.5 percent boost in direct aid to colleges and universities - while making a down payment on an income-tax cut. | | Ambien illustrates mysteries of the brain Feb 22nd 2012, 06:03 | In 2006, when John Whyte first started studying the remarkable effect that the sleep medicine Ambien can have on people with severe brain damage, he hoped the drug might be a miracle treatment. | | Research study gives good marks to Phila.'s school turnaround effort Feb 22nd 2012, 06:03 | Philadelphia's nationally watched school turnaround effort gets high marks from a research study to be released Wednesday. Growth in student achievement and attendance both at district-run overhauled K-8 schools and at those turned over to charters outpaced gains at comparable city schools, the Philadelphia nonprofit Research for Action found. | | Delaware attorney named executive director of DRBA Feb 22nd 2012, 06:03 | Scott A. Green, a Rehoboth Beach, Del., lawyer, was appointed Tuesday to be the executive director of the Delaware River and Bay Authority, which operates the Delaware Memorial Bridge and the Cape May-Lewes Ferry. | | Jury selection begins in church sex abuse trial Feb 22nd 2012, 06:03 | Lawyers and a judge on Tuesday launched what they say could be a monthlong effort to impanel a jury to decide the fate of three Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests accused of endangering or molesting children. | | Driver charged in Bucks hit-and-run death Feb 22nd 2012, 06:03 | A Bristol Township man accused in a fatal hit-and-run over the weekend was "wasted" and driving with a suspended license when he illegally passed a car on the right and hit a pedestrian so hard that he flew over the roof of the car that struck him, according to police. | | Karen Heller: Feb 22nd 2012, 06:03 | Inside Santorum seeks to follow James Buchanan. Karen Heller's column, A2. | | Santorum strikes gold in Pa. contributions Feb 22nd 2012, 05:53 | Pennsylvanians gave nearly $260,000 to Rick Santorum's presidential campaign in January, nearly quadrupling his home-state cash haul from the previous month. | | Pa. college sues over insurance regulation Feb 22nd 2012, 05:34 | PITTSBURGH - A college in Western Pennsylvania sued the federal government Tuesday, saying regulations that require employers to offer birth-control coverage that includes drugs that abort fertilized embryos are "directly at odds" with its religious values, including the Sixth Commandment. | | Son shot dad in Chesco, police say Feb 22nd 2012, 05:34 | An unemployed 26-year-old Chester County man fatally shot his father Monday night after an argument, authorities said Tuesday. The homicide, the county's third this year, occurred about 6:50 p.m. inside a residence in the 200 block of Seltzer Avenue in Caln Township, where Derek J. Smith had been quarreling with his father, Steve M. Washington, 51, said Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan. | | Jury talks start in fatal shooting by ex-officer Feb 22nd 2012, 05:34 | A Philadelphia jury will resume deliberating Wednesday about whether former Police Officer Frank Tepper shot and killed his Port Richmond neighbor in self-defense or because 21-year-old William "Billy" Panas Jr. mocked him outside his own house before family and friends. | | Villanova officials silent on gay artist cancellation Feb 22nd 2012, 05:34 | When Villanova University's communication department invited the gay performance artist Tim Miller to campus, professors envisioned the program as another piece of an organized effort to spur dialogue on diversity issues at the Catholic school. | | New principal for La Salle High School Feb 22nd 2012, 05:34 | La Salle College High School announced Tuesday that an educator who graduated from the private Catholic boys' school in 1968 will become its next principal on July 1. | | Collection-jar theft mars vigil for shooting victim Feb 22nd 2012, 05:14 | NEIGHBORS OF Franklin Manuel Santana, the man shot dead in Tacony last week in a dispute over dog droppings, held a small vigil in his honor outside his apartment last night. But the gathering was tainted by more sadness: A collection jar put in a corner store for Santana's family ended up in the wrong hands. | | ‘Orphan’ trees still looking for a home Feb 22nd 2012, 04:24 | CITY OFFICIALS told Kensington residents at a meeting in late January that if they didn't want about 150 trees planted at McPherson Square Park, then the city would find somewhere else to plant them. | | Christie proposes $32B budget with small spending increases Feb 22nd 2012, 03:54 | TRENTON - Armed with a rosy revenue projection, Gov. Christie proposed a $32.1 billion budget Tuesday that sprinkles additional funding throughout the state - including a modest increase for public schools and a 5.5 percent boost in direct aid to colleges and universities - while making a down payment on an income-tax cut. | | Triplets’ family gives thanks ‘for your continued prayers’ Feb 22nd 2012, 02:38 | Authorities were called to a school-bus accident in Cumberland County, N.J., on Tuesday even as police and other investigators continued to probe last week's deadly collision between a school bus and a dump truck in Burlington County. | | Report says lawyers’ pay too low in Philly capital cases Feb 22nd 2012, 02:17 | A report ordered by the state Supreme Court concludes that the pay for court-appointed lawyers in Philadelphia death-penalty cases is "grossly inadequate" and "unacceptably increases the risk of ineffective assistance of counsel." | | Democrats: Christie not doing enough to ease tax burden Feb 22nd 2012, 02:13 | Gov. Christie is playing with budget numbers to make himself look good and is not doing enough to reduce the property-tax burden on New Jersey residents, Democratic lawmakers said in response to the governor's budget proposal Tuesday. | | Jury selection begins in church sex abuse trial Feb 22nd 2012, 01:54 | Lawyers and a judge on Tuesday launched what they say could be a monthlong effort to impanel a jury to decide the fate of three Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests accused of endangering or molesting children. | | Lawyers clash in murder trial of former Philly cop Feb 22nd 2012, 01:25 | A Philadelphia jury will resume deliberating Wednesday about whether former Police Officer Frank Tepper shot and killed his Port Richmond neighbor in self-defense or because 21-year-old William "Billy" Panas Jr. mocked him outside his own house before family and friends. | |
