| Easing the pain, or worsening it May 20th 2012, 07:45 Ryan Howard felt a tiny pinch Sept. 18 when a team physician's needle penetrated the numbed surface of a left heel that had been throbbing red-hot for weeks. | | Briefly... CITY/REGION May 20th 2012, 06:18 Thief videos released Police on Friday released a pair of surveillance videos in hopes of finding a burglar who struck two Vietnamese restaurants on the same block in South Philadelphia this week. | | Evidence in clergy abuse trial shows a culture of secrecy May 20th 2012, 06:17 The charges against Msgr. William J. Lynn are narrow: that the former Archdiocese of Philadelphia official endangered children by letting two priests live or work in parishes despite signs they might abuse minors. | | Dissident from China now in N.Y. May 20th 2012, 06:13 The blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who had been at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and Chinese governments, completed a four-week journey from confinement in a rural Chinese village to the freedom of New York City, arriving Saturday night after a flight from Beijing with his wife and two children. | | There's a deadline and a DEADLINE May 20th 2012, 05:48 The City Charter says Council is supposed to pass the budget by May 31, but the true deadline is June 30. If there's no budget by the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, then the city cannot spend money. | | From Overbrook dreamer to Broadway mogul May 20th 2012, 05:38 It was Peter Pan who long ago captured a little guy in Overbrook named Stephen C. Byrd and goaded him, during the next several decades, to Neverland. His grandma was an accessory to this - she took him to see the play at a theater in Philadelphia. | | Poverty numbers are grim in N.J. May 20th 2012, 05:37 More New Jersey residents lived in poverty in 2010 than ever before, according to a report released Sunday. A record 885,0000 people in the state, nearly 300,000 of them children, lived below the poverty line, say authors of an analysis by the Legal Services of New Jersey Poverty Research Institute in Edison, which is based on the most recent numbers available. | | 21 suits settled in narcotics unit case May 20th 2012, 05:29 The police squad repeatedly swooped down on bodegas and smoke shops, saying they were searching for the small plastic bags often used to package drugs. But merchants complained that the officers made off with cash and merchandise after disabling security cameras to mask their conduct. | | A South Jersey foreclosure counseling agency reluctantly closes shop May 20th 2012, 04:51 The residential mortgage-foreclosure crisis was good for business at Ahome Affordable Homes in Millville. Make that too good: After several years of growth, the respected nonprofit agency, which had assisted at least 2,100 people facing foreclosure since 2009, laid off four counselors and several other staff members last month because its funding couldn’t keep up with the demand for services. | | Monica Yant Kinney: Catholic families chafe at schools mergers May 20th 2012, 04:48 So many parents and alumni of St. Denis Catholic School in Havertown supported merging with friendly CYO rival Annunciation B.V.M., the marriage should have gone off without a hitch. Instead, parishioners hoping to embrace the past and future in a name were told the regional school would honor the late Cardinal John Foley. The decision was, in their pastor’s words, “nonnegotiable.” | | Ocean City, N.J. mansion sells for $3.9 million at auction May 20th 2012, 04:47 Pam Chandler decided to accompany her husband, Bob, to the extraordinary auction of an Ocean City, N.J., mansion Saturday to keep him from “going overboard.” But an hour after she toured the 7,000-square-foot Victorian-style house on the Great Bay, she was the one prodding him to stay in the frenzied bidding on the breezy bayside veranda. | | Alternative-school links grow on Camden board May 20th 2012, 04:42 Milagros Torres joined a chorus of parents advocating for alternatives to public schools in Camden after her 9-year-old daughter was attacked in March by bullies in a Thomas H. Dudley Elementary School bathroom. Moneke Ragsdale, however, says it was the Lanning Square School, a traditional, public elementary school, that made sure her son Eric Lee wouldn’t fall behind. Lee, now 19, went on to graduate with honors from Camden High School, just finished his first year at Camden County College, and hopes to go on to medical school. | | Judge rejects calls to resign May 20th 2012, 04:24 HARRISBURG — The document prosecutors filed Friday is 75 pages long. But it boils down to a striking accusation: That a sitting judge effectively stole her way onto Pennsylvania’s highest court. | | 3 painting fence hit by car; 1 dead May 20th 2012, 04:15 A car struck three men painting a fence Saturday in Northeast Philadelphia, killing one of them and injuring the others, authorities said. The crash happened about 6:45 a.m. in the Bustleton section of the city, police said. | | Even after being shot several times, suspect keeps beating officer May 20th 2012, 04:10 A police officer was released from the hospital Saturday evening after being beaten with his own baton during what authorities called a “life-or-death struggle” Saturday morning that ended with a robbery suspect wounded outside a busy shopping center in West Philadelphia. “This was an absolute battle,” said Lt. Ray Evers, a police spokesman, “and we are very lucky this officer was not killed.” | | An Islamist edge in Egypt vote May 20th 2012, 03:40 CAIRO — In Tahrir Square, the only reminders of last year’s Arab Spring are a handful of tattered tents and the hawkers who sell leftover trinkets from the revolution. Many secular Egyptians who once demanded democracy now fear that they ousted a secular autocracy only to see it replaced it with an Islamic one — ushered in by the ballot. Yet the liberals, leftists, and moderate Muslims who organized the revolt failed to do the one thing that could check an Islamist victory — unite around a single candidate for the presidency in the first round of elections on Wednesday and Thursday. | | Officer stable; suspect shot in robbery incident May 20th 2012, 02:49 A police officer is in stable condition after being beaten with his own baton during a violent struggle Saturday morning that ended with a robbery suspect shot and wounded outside a busy West Philadelphia shopping center, police said. | | Area students win honors May 20th 2012, 00:39 Six students - four from Pennsylvania, one from New Jersey and one from Delaware - have received top prizes, including cash awards and scholarships, at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh. | |
