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Jill Porter is Philadelphia all the way. Born here, educated here - at Germantown High School and Temple University - and permanent fixture at the Daily News since 1975. In her tiny office are her favorite mementoes of writing a column all these years: plaques in recognition of her work, awards from civic associations for championing their cause, and a t-shirt from a favorite reader that says: "Hand over the chocolate and no one will get hurt." Also on display are photographs of her husband, Fred Hamilton, son Zachary Chalfin Hamilton, and her Golden retriever, Maxi. In real life, Porter likes to dance, read, hike, ride her bike, work out at the gym - and eat chocolate.
 
Posted 07/23/2008
IS HE SICK? Or just plain evil? Larry Mendte's obsessive spying on Alycia Lane's e-mails seems to be both. The CBS 3 anchor turns out to be a treacherous betrayer, preoccupied with destroying Lane, according to a federal investigation.
 
U.S. cites Mendte's pattern of intrusion
 
Information from the federal charge (.pdf)
 
Complete coverage of Alycia Lane and Larry Mendte
Posted 07/18/2008
YOU MAY have seen the commotion yesterday morning - two police officers giving chase, up and down streets, on foot and in their police vehicles, stopping traffic, trying to make a capture.
IT'S THRILLING. Or reckless. It will rivet international attention and help Philadelphia emerge as a world-class city. Or it will consign nearby residents to a sunless, congested hell, and overpower a charming low-rise neighborhood.
WAIDE HEMPHILL awoke at two in the morning yesterday with red bites up and down his arms. He knew immediately what it was, even before he saw the blood droplets on his sheet.
WHO'D have blamed Meg Guerreiro if she'd packed up and left town? Her roommate, Beau Zabel, was murdered steps from their South Philadelphia house last month.
I DON'T KNOW about you, but I'm going to spend my tax-refund incentive check to buy a gun. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - and not just members of militias - have the right to bear arms, it's the least we can do.
IT'S NO LONGER such a hoot, is it? Gossiping about Alycia Lane and Larry Mendte is no longer fun now that serious accusations have overshadowed the giddy scandal.
I'VE COME to think of them as the Francisville Four - the young people who were detained for hours and locked out of their house in a police raid last week.
YOU'RE NOT alone if you're still haunted by the fact that Rosalind Lavin got off so easy. You're not alone if you think she should have been criminally prosecuted for the horrific conditions endured by the residents of her personal-care homes.
D'JUAN DIGGS wondered how it could happen, how he could wind up living in a homeless shelter with his girlfriend and children.
THERE ought to be a special place in hell for greedy malefactors who live lavishly on the backs of society's downtrodden souls.
I HAVE a suggestion for the enraged Hillary Clinton supporters who plan to vote for John McCain to protest her failure to win the nomination.
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