The City
- Police name ‘pantless rapist’ suspect
- Doctor's four-state abortion business under investigation
Three weeks ago, physician Steven Brigham led a car caravan of patients from his Voorhees abortion clinic to his facility in Elkton, Md. After one of the patients was critically injured during her surgery there, Brigham put the semiconscious, bleeding woman into the back of a rented Chevrolet Malibu and drove her to a nearby hospital emergency room rather than call an ambulance.
- Final stand for Penn State's Paterno?
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Joe Paterno, as indicated by the famously outdated game-day wardrobes he and his Nittany Lions continue to wear, doesn't do change well.
- Phlyin' Flugtag team just can't get a head
A local team's high hopes of flying its gigantic, homemade replica of the Phillie Phanatic off a 30-foot platform into the Delaware River turned to heartbreak yesterday when Major League Baseball forbade the flight because of trademark restrictions.
- Philadelphia woman hears knock, shows she's armed, police confiscate gun
After her son was killed in 2008, Sherderian Sutton got a Philadelphia license to carry a concealed weapon and a small Ruger pistol to protect herself and her surviving children.
- 18-year-old killed by Upper Darby trolley
A young man was struck and killed by a SEPTA trolley in Upper Darby Thursday night.
- In Collingdale, picking through memories destroyed in explosive fire
George Kaiser walked through the smoldering remains of his Collingdale self-storage business Thursday and gently pushed a basketball-size chunk of metal with the toe of his boot.
- Again, a Delco inmate is freed before his time
It's happened again at the Delaware County prison.
Yet another inmate was accidentally released this week from the George W. Hill Correctional Facility, county officials confirmed yesterday, making for the sixth such incident there in recent months.
- Seventh child found in car in Parx Casino lot
The timing was horrible.
Or perfect, depending on your agenda.
At noon Thursday, state and local officials had called a news conference in Bensalem to address ways of ending a recent outbreak of adults leaving children alone in vehicles outside the Parx Casino there. Six such incidents had been reported since June 15, resulting in four arrests.
- Girlfriend charged in rolling car accident at Manayunk Wall
A 19-year-old woman was charged with DUI and aggravated assault after her 20-year-old boyfriend was run over by a car early yesterday while he was trying to push it up the Manayunk Wall, police said.
Your Money
- N.H. jury deliberates case on Phila. firm’s drug
CONCORD, N.H. - A New Hampshire woman is seeking more than $24 million in damages from the Philadelphia-based maker of a prescription drug she took to ease shoulder pain, but that caused a reaction so severe that she is now blind and scarred by internal and external burns.
- Campbell reports Q4 profit rise on better margins
The Campbell Soup Co. reported a larger profit Friday for its fourth fiscal quarter, a time when the temperature rises and its soup sales traditionally drop.
- From cars to coke: Sunoco hires former GM CEO
Sunoco Inc. has hired former General Motors Co. chief executive Frederick A. "Fritz" Henderson to lead its SunCoke subsidiary, which the Philadelphia refiner is spinning off next year.
- Unemployment rate inches up; few jobs created
The nation's unemployment rate inched up to 9.6 percent in August while companies added only 67,000 jobs, the Labor Department said this morning in a further sign that the recovery remains weak.
- Pa. and N.J. are in the top 10 of closing costs, a survey says.
It's something few buyers appear to include when calculating the price of homeownership, but closing costs sometimes can be the tipping point in a sale.
- SugarHouse adds finishing touches before opening Sept. 23
It is not faint praise to say that the most striking aspect of the interior of the soon-to-open SugarHouse Casino is the spectacularly inventive use of the exceedingly tight 45,000 square feet.
- Dean of Northwestern's medical school the new chief at Penn's
J. Larry Jameson, dean of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, was named Thursday as the next dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and head of the Penn health system.
- New dean named for Penn’s med school
J. Larry Jameson, a prominent molecular endocrinologist and dean Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, today was named to become dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and executive vice president of the Penn health system next year. When he assumes his new positions next year, Jameson, 56, will oversee the enterprise known as Penn Medicine, which encompasses the medical school – ranked second in research by U.S. News and World Report – and the three-hospital University of Pennsylvania Health System. The health system’s chief executive Ralph Muller will report to Jameson.
- PhillyInc: Philadelphia near the bottom in Allstate's rankings of safe-driver cities
Here's why Philadelphia, and not Fort Collins, Colo., is the setting for not one, but two cable-television series that revolve around driving in the city:
- Business news in brief
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The Weather
Current Conditions : 79.1F / 26.2C, Clear - 12:40 PM EDT Sep. 3
This Afternoon - Cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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Tonight - Mostly cloudy in the evening...then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
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Saturday - Mostly sunny. Less humid with highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
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Sports
Entertainment
- Chef Martin Hamann brings 'the wow factor' to the Union League
WHEN IT COMES to dining at one of the best restaurants in Philadelphia, membership really does have its privileges.
That's because 1862 by Martin Hamann is only open to 3,200 people and their guests. These lucky diners are members of the elite Union League, the Civil War-era club founded on South Broad Street in 1862 to promote loyalty to the Union and the policies of President Lincoln, who paid at least one visit to the storied club.
- ‘Machete’ is a Bloody mess
If you think there's nothing new to add to the immigration debate, you have not seen "Machete."
- 'Machete' is a Bloody mess
If you think there's nothing new to add to the immigration debate, you have not seen "Machete."
I don't think Robert Rodriguez's movie advances the dialogue very much (in fact, it probably moves it back a peg or two), but it does have something to add - the naked bodies of Jessica Alba and Lindsay Lohan, and the virtually nude figure of Michelle Rodriguez.
- Pixies: Reunited, and it feels so right
A leisurely ride home from vacation with his wife and five children is not the vision you imagine when interviewing Frank Black, or rather Black Francis, as he's known in Pixies.
- CasiNotes: Famed White House Sub Shop opening 2nd diner at Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City
FORMER PRESIDENT Bill Clinton may have come to the Atlantic City Hilton recently, but the White House is coming to Trump Taj Mahal.
- Steve and Mia: Wife catches hubby spying on young neighbor - what should she do?
Q: I have an issue with my husband that I really don't know how to handle. First, let me say that he is in his 50s.Before we went out to dinner one night, I caught him staring out the window at my neighbor's daughter, who's in her 20s, while she and her
- ‘The Tillman Story’ recounts the robust life & flawed death of Pat Tillman
"The Tillman Story" has been endorsed by Michael Moore, but that's no reason to avoid seeing it.
- ‘Going the Distance’ pulls up short
Purists who say that modern romantic comedies are too often crude for the sake of being crude have fresh evidence in "Going the Distance."
- Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe turn tradition on its ear
IN THE 1930s, Chinese opera artists Cheng Yanqiu and Mei Lanfang traveled to Europe and the United States, looking to promote their art form in the West and to import some Western ideas into their own work.
- Tattle: T.I. backer takes pot-shots at grounds for arrest
DOES T.I. STAND for
Total Idiot?
That's the only thing we can surmise after the rapper/actor (aka Clifford Harris) was arrested along with his new bride Tameka Cottle on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance (aka pills that resembled Ecstasy).
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