The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) articles from August 2011, page 2

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N. Phila. man gets life for 2 murders.
August 9, 2011... Byline: By Mensah M. Dean Aug. 09--One year ago this month, Siegfried Moore, a burly man from North Philadelphia, went on a crime spree that resulted in two murders in the city's Logan section. Tuesday he was sentenced to spend the rest of...

Philly man who threatened Lieberman out on bail.
August 9, 2011... Byline: Michael Hinkelman Aug. 09--A Philadelphia man who was arrested a week ago for allegedly threatening U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) was released on bail Tuesday afternoon. Dmitri Dyatlov's computer will be monitored...

Hunter Pence is Philly style.
August 9, 2011... Byline: Sam Donnellon The boy was named, Howard Pence said, after his wife read some scriptures about "The Mighty Hunter of the Lord." His middle name was a nod to Hunter's great-, great-grandfather Andrew Larsen, owner of two Wisconsin...

Eagles' young linebackers will be tested.
August 9, 2011... Byline: Paul Domowitch BETHLEHEM, Pa. _ There was an awful lot wrong with the Eagles' defense at the end of last season: _ This was a unit that gave up a franchise-record 31 touchdown passes. _ This was a unit that couldn't get to the...

Beasley glad to be back with U.S. soccer.
August 9, 2011... Byline: Kerith Gabriel PHILADELPHIA _ DaMarcus Beasley doesn't know what to consider himself. Is he a veteran? Is he a stalwart? Or is he just lucky? Whatever he is, Beasley is once again a member of the U.S. national team, courtesy of...

To Preach His Own: From the pulpit, Nutter throws the book at roving mobs of black teens.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Stephanie Farr Aug. 08--ADDRESSING the "butthead" youths who've been mobbing Center City and the "sperm donors" who've passed for their fathers, Mayor Nutter thundered from the pulpit of his church yesterday in uncharacteristically...

New SEPTA railcars roll out slowly.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Dan Geringer Aug. 08--WHEN SEPTA's new Silverliner V made its maiden voyage last October, taking reporters and a few startled Regional Rail riders on the five-stop run between Suburban Station and Cynwyd, it had that new railcar...

Philadelphia Daily News John Baer column.(Column)
August 8, 2011... Byline: John Baer Aug. 08--IF THE LEGISLATURE and Gov. Corbett succeed in privatizing wine and liquor sales, one large Pittsburgh law firm is well-positioned to cash in, thanks to its unusual help in writing the would-be law. Two lawyers...

Philadelphia Daily News Stu Bykofsky column.(Column)
August 8, 2011... Byline: Stu Bykofsky Aug. 08--THE UNIVERSE BEGAN with a bang, it is said, no sexual innuendo intended. SlutWalks began with the casual remark of a misguided Toronto cop who in January told students at a crime-prevention talk, "Women...

Philadelphia Daily News John Smallwood column.(Column)
August 8, 2011... Byline: John Smallwood Aug. 08--BETHLEHEM -- It's difficult to ignore. It's the hole in the luscious doughnut that has been the preseason talk of Dream Team and Super Bowl. Yesterday, as has been the case since the Eagles started...

Philadelphia Daily News Jenice Armstrong column.(Column)
August 8, 2011... Byline: Jenice Armstrong Aug. 08--AT A National Association of Black Journalists reception last week, Rakia Reynolds was doing what she does -- chatting up out-of-towners about Philly's hottest shopping spots. Reynolds, the city's...

Philadelphia Daily News Tattle column.(Column)
August 8, 2011... Byline: Howard Gensler Aug. 08--Grammy-winning OutKast rapper Big Boi (a/k/a Antwan Patton) was arrested in Miami for possession of drugs including Ecstasy and Viagra. Isn't ecstasy the result of Viagra? Mr. Boi, 36, was charged yesterday...

Philadelphia Daily News Dan Gross column.(Column)
August 8, 2011... Byline: Dan Gross Aug. 08--Mickey Rourke, Charles Barkley, Randy Moss and Bernard Hopkins were among celebrities who caught the Ultimate Fighting Championship 133 Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center. Rourke, Barkley and B-Hop sat...

J. Collins, urban planner.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By John F. Morrison Aug. 08--G. STOCKTON Strawbridge looked out of the front window of his department store on East Market Street, regarded the banging pile-drivers, the grinding trucks, the dust, the torn-up asphalt and smiled. He...

Phillies lose but Oswalt on right track.
August 8, 2011... Byline: David Murphy Aug. 08--SAN FRANCISCO -- It is hard to forget the way Roy Oswalt's voice sounded when he acknowledged his own mortality on a Thursday night in St. Louis. As he talked about the back pain that had drained him of his...

Eagles rookie center Kelce rising to starting status.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Les Bowen Aug. 08--BETHLEHEM -- Danny Watkins might not be the only rookie starting on the Eagles' offensive line this season. Jason Kelce, a sixth-round center out of Cincinnati, is getting a long look with the first team in...

Eagles Notebook: DeSean Jackson arrives at Eagles camp.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Les Bowen Aug. 08--BETHLEHEM -- Michael Vick was more than ready for DeSean Jackson's arrival at Eagles training camp last night. For one thing, missing both Jackson and Jeremy Maclin (illness) against the suddenly imposing...

Philadelphia Daily News Paul Domowitch column.(Column)
August 8, 2011... Byline: Paul Domowitch Aug. 08--CANTON, Ohio -- They came from Utah, Colorado and Missouri. From Moorestown, Cherry Hill and East Falls. Some flew, many others drove. Call them Big Ed's Army. More than 150 current and former employees of...

STILL GETTING HIS FOOTBALL KICKS.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Mark Perner Aug. 08--BROWNS PUNTER Richmond McGee has had a busy week. McGee, who was an Eagle from April to August 2008, was released by the Chicago Bears for the fourth time on Monday. He went back to his job as a stock trader...

Philadelphia Daily News Bill Conlin column.(Column)
August 8, 2011... Byline: Bill Conlin Aug. 08--THE MAGIC formula that has propelled the Phillies from contender to World Series winner to baseball superpower, is 17=5. Seventeen minor league prospects (one still to be named) exchanged as needs arose for five...

Phillies Notebook: Phillies still can't crack Lincecum.
August 8, 2011... Byline: David Murphy Aug. 08--SAN FRANCISCO -- When the Phillies arrived at AT & T Park yesterday, they not only carried with them a nine-game winning streak, but a 9 1/2-game lead over the Braves in the NL East, representing their...

Three points slip away from Union.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Frank Bertucci Aug. 08--SOMEHOW the Union, with just two wins in its last 11 MLS games, stays near the top of the league's Eastern Conference standings. Saturday night's 1-1 draw with the Houston Dynamo, before 18,524 at PPL...

After UFC 133, Evans thinking title.
August 8, 2011... Byline: Kerith Gabriel Aug. 08--IT'S A SEETHING, underlying hatred. One that's only surfaced a few times and then went back below. Like U-571. Or the Loch Ness monster. It's the hatred UFC light heavyweight contender Rashad Evans and...

Philly's Hart comes home golden from boxing trials.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Bernard Fernandez Aug. 08--BY THIS STAGE of his 22-year-old life, it should come as no surprise to those who know him that Jesse Hart's favorite color is gold. Not since James Bond's archenemy, Auric Goldfinger, was plotting that...

2 women struck - 1 dead - in daylightshooting.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Dafney Tales Aug. 08--BETWEEN THE SOBS that wracked her body, Tracey Burch tried to stand up on her own, but crumbled in the arms of a relative, her cries echoing down the block. She and dozens of her relatives clung to one...

CORRECTION.(Correction notice)
August 8, 2011... Aug. 08--A story in Friday's Daily News incorrectly reported that the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers agreed to the district's slashing of the number of Promise Academies by more than half. Rather, the PFT and the district agreed on how to...

Jonathan Takiff: Earphones kids (and parents) will love.
August 8, 2011... Byline: Jonathan Takiff THE GIZMO: Maxell Kids Safe Headphones. GIMME A BREAK: It's a relief when the kids have earphones on a long road trip. Beats grown-up you being forced to listen to their repetitive video-game noises, teenybop tunes...

His art rocks.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Chuck Darrow Aug. 08--MICHAEL GODARD may look like a member of a Motley Crue tribute band, but he has the soul of an artist. Indeed, he is one. And thanks to a singular, whimsical style that celebrates life's naughtier (and more...

Chillin' With ... Karen Brown: Pounding the pavement at women's triathlon.
August 8, 2011... Byline: Chris Brennan Aug. 08--A WARM, MUGGY day of campaigning nearly starts off badly. Karen Brown, the Republican nominee for mayor, is ready to leave her South Philly block when her righthand man, Rick Modglin, goes to dump a cup of...

EDITORIAL: Shari Law-less.(Editorial)
August 8, 2011... Aug. 08--WE DON'T often agree with what New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says or the way he often says it. But we cheer his recent response to a reporter's question about the fear that Muslim Sharia Law is undermining American jurisprudence. ...

Family, neighborhood grieve death of Navy SEAL hero from Philly.
August 8, 2011... Byline: Julie Shaw Aug. 08--WHAT A DAMN unfair world it is when someone so courageous -- and so physically and mentally fit to take on an incredibly daunting task that 99.9 percent of us couldn't even perform -- gets killed in a faraway land...

BRIEF: Police arrest man for Olney burglaries.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Phillip Lucas Aug. 08--Surveillance footage led police to arrest a 51-year-old West Oak Lane man who allegedly burglarized a convenience store and a doughnut shop on 5th Street near Olney Avenue in early June. Curtis Hairston,...

BRIEF: Cops release composite of suspect in W. Phila. sex crime.
August 8, 2011... Byline: By Morgan Zalot Aug. 08--Police are searching for a suspect in an alleged attempted rape at knifepoint July 23 in West Philadelphia. The Special Victims Unit released a composite of the suspect, described as a black man about 20...

Paterno recovering after being hit by Penn State player.
August 8, 2011... Byline: Bernard Fernandez Some college football coaches have burly state troopers constantly around them on game day, serving as de facto bodyguards. In some ballparks, relief pitchers and catchers warming up in exposed bullpen areas are...

Philly's Hart comes home golden from boxing trials.
August 7, 2011... Byline: Bernard Fernandez PHILADELPHIA _ By this stage of his 22-year-old life, it should come as no surprise to those who know him that Jesse Hart's favorite color is gold. Not since James Bond's archenemy, Auric Goldfinger, was plotting...

2 women struck A- 1 dead A- in daylight shooting.
August 7, 2011... Byline: By Dafney Tales Aug. 07--Between the sobs that wracked her body, Tracey Burch tried to stand up on her own, but crumbled in the arms of a relative, her cries echoing down the block. She and dozens of her relatives clung to each...

Eagles Notebook: Free agents finally join Eagles practice.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By Les Bowen Aug. 06--BETHLEHEM -- Free at last, free at last, great -- OK, maybe that's a little bit over the top. But the 13 veteran free agents signed by the Eagles since the lockout ended finally got to practice with their new...

Phillies Notebook: Mayberry getting the right at-bats for Phillies.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By David Murphy Aug. 06--SAN FRANCISCO -- Charlie Manuel has a pretty good idea of how to handle John Mayberry Jr. He does not like to play him against pitchers who have a big separation in velocity between pitches. He does like to...

Back to your cell, judge tells kids accused of attacks.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By David Gambacorta Aug. 06--TWO WEEKS. For most people, it's an insignificant amount of time, a blink of an eye on the calendar. But for the three juveniles charged with randomly assaulting pedestrians in Center City on July...

Cops say Mann robbers had help.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By Regina Medina and Phillip Lucas Aug. 06--AN ARMED ROBBERY yesterday at the Mann Center for Performing Arts -- in which two masked men made off with about $120,000 from a catering office -- must have been an inside job, police said....

Eagles' Patterson out of hospital, eyeing return.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By Les Bowen Aug. 06--BETHLEHEM -- Reporters and photographers walked up gingerly, gathering in a semicircle, keeping a respectful distance, like tourists who have spotted a deer grazing in a park. Mike Patterson is shaped more...

UFC 133 is controlled chaos.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By Bernard Fernandez Aug. 06--SOMEWHERE, P.T. Barnum had to be smiling. The Greatest Show on Earth rolled into the Wells Fargo Center yesterday afternoon, except that the attractions weren't trapeze artists, high-wire acts and...

Gambler had ace, got jacked, suit says.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By Jason Nark Aug. 06--CASINOS HAVE good reason to fear Previn Mankodi. The Louisiana man has a bachelor's from the University of Chicago, an MBA from Stanford and a master's in economics from Cambridge, and he uses that big brain...

Did john slay after lay? Jury to decide.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By Julie Shaw Aug. 06--JURORS in a sensational case of a pimp shot to death by a john two years ago will be mulling the credibility of the john and the prostitute when they resume deliberations Monday. This much is true: Kalif...

Judge sets hearing on Bevilacqua's competency to testify.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By Julie Shaw Aug. 06--AJUDGE YESTERDAY ordered a competency hearing next month for Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, the former head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, under whose leadership sex-abuse crimes occurred. Prosecutors want...

Nutter to kids: be home by 10.
August 6, 2011... Byline: By Anjali Tsui Aug. 06--TWO POLICE officers on horses trotted down 15th Street last night and packs of as many as a dozen cops on bicycles rolled around Center City. It was a show of force meant to let potential packs of marauding...

Philadelphia Daily News Clout column.(Column)
August 5, 2011... Byline: Chris Brennan Aug. 05--THERE ARE two approaches a politician can take when faced with public innuendo: One, ignore it and hope the unpleasantness wafts away. Two, attack it publicly and draw even more attention. Mayor...

Philadelphia Daily News Paul Hagen column.(Column)
August 5, 2011... Byline: Paul Hagen Aug. 05--Sometimes, seemingly minor transactions can telegraph what's to come. If a baseball team clears a spot on its 40-man roster for no apparent reason, for example, it could mean that the opening was needed to make...

Philadelphia Daily News Stan Hochman column.(Column)
August 5, 2011... Byline: Stan Hochman Aug. 05--RUBEN AMARO SR. was the shortstop on that 1961 Phillies team that lost 23 games in a row. Finished with the worst record in baseball, 47-107. Were dead last in attendance, luring 590,039 masochists into Connie...

Philadelphia Daily News John Smallwood column.(Column)
August 5, 2011... Byline: John Smallwood Aug. 05--NICKNAMES are a time-honored tradition in combat sports. And considering the pop culture influence of the movie "Gladiator," being nicknamed "The Spaniard" is pretty damn cool. But Pennsylvania-bred...

Philadelphia Daily News Tattle column.(Column)
August 5, 2011... Byline: Howard Gensler Aug. 05--MAYBE IT'S because Jennifer Lopez looks so happy now that she's single, but Marc Anthony is begging her to take him back. To where? Whenever Tattle's mom took something back, she got store credit. A Lopez...

Bert Lancaster, 83, Rizzo aide.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By John F. Morrison Aug. 05--ONE OF BERT Lancaster's last acts of kindness was to send flowers to Carmella Rizzo for her 95th birthday last month. "When I told my mother that he died, she said, 'He just sent me flowers!' " said her...

Lee, Pence star in San Fran.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By David Murphy Aug. 05--SAN FRANCISCO -- As the visitors' clubhouse at Coors Field cleared 2 days ago, the Phillies insisted they did not believe in regular-season statements. Nothing, Roy Halladay said, could atone for the loss they...

Jersey shore staffed by a foreign legion.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Jason Nark Aug. 05--"JERSEY SHORE" made a blockbuster trade earlier this year, dumping a group of boorish, bronzed clowns on Europe in exchange for hundreds of studious young men and women, eager to make money and soak up the...

Euro place or mine? Shore club caters to foreign concept.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Jason Nark Aug. 05--SVETLANA SPENDS her summer days in a starched maid's uniform, cleaning up dirty bedsheets in Atlantic City motel rooms, more than 5,000 miles from home. But there are a few magical hours each week, when the...

Philadelphia Daily News Paul Domowitch column.(Column)
August 5, 2011... Byline: Paul Domowitch Aug. 05--BETHLEHEM -- Eagles owner Jeff Lurie held his annual training camp state-of-the-team address yesterday, and boy, I gotta tell you, things don't look good for the home squad. Forget all of this "dream team"...

Philadelphia Daily News Bill Conlin column.(Column)
August 5, 2011... Byline: Bill Conlin Aug. 05--Observations, insinuations, ruminations and unbridled opinions. . . THE FREE AGENTS came riding in to save the town's tattered football image from all points but east. In film lore, such a group of dedicated...

Eagles Notebook: All aboard today at Eagles camp.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Les Bowen Aug. 05--BETHLEHEM -- The Eagles keep accumulating veteran free-agent signees, who almost outnumbered reporters on the sidelines at Lehigh yesterday. But the sideline area will get less crowded today, when Nnamdi...

Eagles' Patterson awaits word on course of treatment.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Les Bowen Aug. 05--BETHLEHEM -- Mike Patterson is "trying to understand what's happening, just like everybody else is," fellow defensive tackle Trevor Laws said yesterday. "I'm pretty sure he's a little scared, a little...

Packers already missing Jenkins.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Jim Destefano Aug. 05--THEY HAVE Super Bowl rings, but not Cullen Jenkins. And members of the Green Bay Packers' defense say the new Eagles tackle will be missed. Jenkins, who contributed seven sacks last season, signed a...

Phillies Notebook: Utley info on a knee to know basis.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By David Murphy Aug. 05--SAN FRANCISCO -- The fact that Chase Utley's absence from last night's lineup qualified as news tells you how well his season is going. Five months ago, there was some doubt about whether he would play at...

Bell back on the road, this time with Villanova teammates.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Mike Kern Aug. 05--SO, DO YOU KNOW where Latvia is located? Well, neither did Villanova's James Bell. But since he was heading there, he consulted a map to find out. "I knew it was somewhere in [Eastern] Europe," said the...

Newsome leaves Penn State.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Bernard Fernandez Aug. 05--NOW THAT third-team quarterback Kevin Newsome has left the Penn State football team, with the apparent intention to transfer, the Nittany Lions' depth chart at the position is looking increasingly shallow...

Union hosts Houston on short rest.
August 5, 2011... Byline: Kerith Gabriel Aug. 05--THE UNION MIGHT have dodged a bullet, but only slightly. On short rest following a 1-1 stalemate in Chicago on Wednesday, the club returns to Chester to host Houston tomorrow night at PPL Park (7:30, 6ABC)....

Tito Ortiz honored to be fighting in Philly.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Kerith Gabriel Aug. 05--IF THIS ENDS up being the swan song of Tito Ortiz, his final countdown so to speak, he's honored to have it happen here in Philadelphia. Why? "Man, this is Fight Town USA," Ortiz said. "I have...

Belfort living dream, and nightmare.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Bernard Fernandez Aug. 05--As a devout Christian, renowned Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter Vitor Belfort long ago learned to believe in things of a spiritual nature he cannot see or touch. And if that holds true in his...

Rivera forever carries burden of daugther's death.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Bernard Fernandez Aug. 05--THESE ARE THE two faces of Jorge Rivera. One face belongs to the tough-as-nails mixed martial artist, the guy who gives no quarter and asks none in the Octagon. That face is what another audience will...

EDITORIAL: Mugging in D.C.: The FAA funding showdown.(Editorial)
August 5, 2011... Aug. 05--FOR MONTHS, Republicans in Congress held a gun to the head of the global economy, refusing to raise the debt ceiling until Democrats in Congress agreed this week to draconian federal budget cuts. Yet it's clear that the hostage crisis...

Chestnut Hill professor kills himself during class.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Regina Medina Aug. 05--A CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE professor did the unthinkable Wednesday afternoon during math class. Rudolf Alexandrov, 71, an adjunct professor, became agitated and quickly walked out of the classroom inside St....

4 held for trial in June shootingon SEPTA bus.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Julie Shaw Aug. 05--AS THE SEPTA BUS pulled up to 7th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue in North Philly, two men in white T-shirts rushed up to the open back door, one whipping out a long rifle from his pants and the other holding a...

A summer of 'earn andlearn' in U. City.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Hannah Ehlenfeldt Aug. 05--KHALIAH MARTIN might not be spending her summer the same way as most teenagers, but she likes it that way. "It's always something new every day," said the 15-year-old. As a participant in the...

Philadelphia housing chief drops the 'interim' in title.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Catherine Lucey Aug. 05--THE INTERIM director of the troubled Philadelphia Housing Authority will be sticking around for a while. Michael Kelly, who has been on loan to PHA from the New York City Housing Authority -- where he...

BRIEF: Teachers agree to cut in number of Promise Academies.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Dafney Tales Aug. 05--THE TEACHERS UNION has agreed to the district's slashing of the number of Promise Academies by more than half this school year, union president Jerry Jordan said in an email yesterday to his membership. ...

Delving into Phillies' shortstop question.
August 5, 2011... Byline: Paul Hagen Sometimes, seemingly minor transactions can telegraph what's to come. If a baseball team clears a spot on its 40-man roster for no apparent reason, for example, it could mean that the opening was needed to make room for a...

Bernard Hopkins goes from critic to fan of MMA.
August 5, 2011... Byline: Bernard Fernandez PHILADELPHIA _ News Flash: WBC light-heavyweight boxing champion Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins still is not a fan of former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. No surprise there, huh? News flash No. 2: Hopkins...

Tito Ortiz honored to be fighting in Philadelphia.
August 5, 2011... Byline: Kerith Gabriel PHILADELPHIA _ If this ends up being the swan song of Tito Ortiz, his final countdown so to speak, he's honored to have it happen here in Philadelphia. Why? "Man, this is Fight Town USA," Ortiz said. "I have...

Chestnut Hill professor leaves class, kills self.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Regina Medina Aug. 05--A CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE professor did the unthinkable Wednesday afternoon during math class. Rudolf Alexandrov, 71, an adjunct professor, became agitated and quickly walked out of the classroom inside St....

BRIEF: Phila.-area boy, 9, hurt by hit-run after Phils-Giants game.
August 5, 2011... Byline: Michael Hinkelman Aug. 05--A 9-year-old Philadelphia area boy is in critical condition today after being injured by a hit-and-run driver following Thursday night's Phillies-Giants game in San Francisco, officials said. "He's very...

Wary, principals union delays giveback vote.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Dafney Tales Aug. 05--AMID CONCERNS of bonuses to favored principals and what they see as a lack of transparency, members of the principals' union yesterday delayed a vote on givebacks to the school district, said union president...

Nutter to kids: be home by 10.
August 5, 2011... Byline: By Anjali Tsui Aug. 05--There will be more cops on street in Center City this weekend and they'll be enforcing the city's curfew on young people, Mayor Nutter announced today. The moves come after violent teenage mobs attacked...

Halladay guts one out for Phillies.
August 4, 2011... Byline: David Murphy DENVER _ It looked like vintage Roy Halladay. With two outs in the sixth inning of the Phillies' 8-6 victory at Coors Field Wednesday, the veteran righthander unleashed what looked to be a cutter that sailed away from...

Philadelphia Daily News Stu Bykofsky column.(Column)
August 4, 2011... Byline: Stu Bykofsky Aug. 04--WHILE PATRICK and Karen Noonan were beached, their luggage enjoyed a leisurely Mediterranean vacation, all by itself. The story begins Friday morning, July 1, when the Noonans went to Philadelphia...

Philadelphia Daily News Bill Fleischman column.(Column)
August 4, 2011... Byline: Bill Fleischman Aug. 04--ABOUT 4 HOURS after Paul Menard won the Brickyard 400 last Sunday he finally made it to the chartered jet returning his team home to North Carolina. "When I got on the plane there was a big ovation that...

Philadelphia Daily News Tattle: Fox's latest target column.(Column)
August 4, 2011... Byline: Howard Gensler Aug. 04--NOW THAT the debt ceiling has been raised, and Republicans and Democrats are devising new ways to be disagreeable, Fox News has got its fair and balanced panties in a bunch over a new threat to the Republic: ...