http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F Local news from the Daily News. en-us Sun, 27 May 2012 06:30:20 GMT 2012-05-27T06:30:20Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=154664565&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120527_Briefly______CITY_REGION.html Pair of rapists sought City police are seeking the public's help in identifying two men who raped and robbed a North Philadelphia woman after breaking into her home on Tuesday morning, police said. Sun, 27 May 2012 06:30:20 GMT 7960240cc63ccda9af9d4568ebe2f8c2 2012-05-27T06:30:20Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=154664585&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120527_Cops__Girl_poisoned_by_her_killer_mom_is_stable.html A 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL whom police said was poisoned by her suicidal mother who killed two of her other children was listed in stable condition at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children Friday afternoon, police said. Sun, 27 May 2012 06:18:15 GMT 6860c806692efad631ba1b085cfdc952 2012-05-27T06:18:15Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=154664595&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120527_Etan_s_alleged_killer_on_suicide_watch.html A 51-YEAR-OLD Maple Shade man who is accused of murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York 33 years ago was put on suicide watch Friday, the anniversary of the boy's disappearance and National Missing Children's Day. Sun, 27 May 2012 06:18:15 GMT 935a5e1ddfa8f61616c42e81bb534e11 2012-05-27T06:18:15Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=154664575&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120527_This_is_why_they_call_it_Memorial_Day.html THEY'RE ALWAYS special, the Memorial Day services that unfold every year at the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Friendships are renewed, old stories are rehashed, and precious time is spent paying tribute to the 646 local soldiers who didn't make it out of 'Nam alive. Sun, 27 May 2012 06:18:14 GMT 59e076b634314c5045d5f934908dc719 2012-05-27T06:18:14Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153883955&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120525_Cops__Mother_killed_twins__tried_to_kill_self.html "I harmed my babies." That’s what a 41-year-old Tacony mother, bleeding from self-inflicted wounds to her wrists, told police when they arrived at her house on Ditman Street near Levick on Thursday. Fri, 25 May 2012 21:46:33 GMT 0cd241ba5ba784b40fb85bed44247aa2 2012-05-25T21:46:33Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153802895&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F153802895.html An author-signed book, a Hootie and the Blowfish CD, a Baltimore Orioles batting helmet, a curled newspaper with the look and feel of parchment, a certificate of journalistic excellence, a 1989 city-issued municipal telephone directory, a press kit filled with lies, a Howard Eskin bobblehead. That was the top layer, the crust of one of the trash bins standing like corrections officers around our newsroom, a/k/a public housing for several generations of interracial mice. We are about a month from moving day and, for many reasons, this is not a happy shop. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:17:21 GMT a6ee9f27a608f58326c6741401757d38 2012-05-25T18:17:21Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153903925&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120525_Council_OKs_online_appeals_of_parking_tickets.html TIRED OF TAKING off from work to appeal a parking ticket? Those days of running to the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication (BAA) will soon be over. Fri, 25 May 2012 17:02:03 GMT 802e75f1d9c4a2bb3fc5be4d18bb4403 2012-05-25T17:02:03Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153825005&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F153825005.html Nine city workers who were supposed to be cleaning up neighborhoods instead ransacked homes in Northeast Philadelphia between 2006 and 2008, stealing cash, guns, family heirlooms, furniture and TVs while on the job. Last year they pleaded guilty to the crime. A grand-jury report said the former workers, who were assigned to the Community Life Improvement Program (CLIP), "used their jobs as a license to steal the entire contents of houses" and were "abetted by a total lack of oversight." Many were tossed in jail. Fri, 25 May 2012 12:09:49 GMT fce3079b1d2737dc68f492e7fd741675 2012-05-25T12:09:49Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153865025&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120525_Patz_rsquo_s_family_believes_Pennsylvania_inmate_killed_Etan.html TWICE A YEAR, Stanley Patz sends an envelope to Inmate No. AJ0496 at a state prison in Luzerne County. Inside is a missing-child poster of Patz’s son, Etan, who vanished from the SoHo section of New York City 33 years ago Friday. There’s a small message scrawled on the poster for the prisoner, Jose Antonio Ramos, asking Ramos what he did to little Etan all those years ago. Fri, 25 May 2012 11:50:59 GMT 9850566a78689c8cb8d52888e5a26186 2012-05-25T11:50:59Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153877965&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120525_Neighbors_shocked_that_Etan_Patz_rsquo_s_confessed_killer_lived_among_them.html A SMALL DOG yapped at the front door while Rosemary Hernandez sat in her living room on an antique couch with her head down, rocking back and forth. She cried sporadically, looking frightened and confused Thursday, knowing a throng of reporters, photographers and cameramen wasoutside, encircling her two-bedroom home in Maple Shade, N.J. For 33 years, almost to the day, her husband, Pedro Hernandez, had lived with a loathsome secret. Fri, 25 May 2012 10:59:48 GMT ff2c848d7b2a824e2a5b570c4c5966d6 2012-05-25T10:59:48Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153858755&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120525_Bloomberg_takes_shot_at_Philly_with_stop-and-frisk_defense.html NEW YORK Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a shot at the New York Times on Thursday and threw Philadelphia under the bus in the process. Responding to an editorial in the Times that called Philadelphia’s court-ordered stop-and-frisk policy more enlightened than the Big Apple’s, Bloomberg fired back. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:30:08 GMT 5c237b23789300880da47264cf93b460 2012-05-25T04:30:08Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153872115&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120525_Two_13-year-old_girls_caught_in_cross-fire.html NEIGHBORS packed onto a narrow block of Myrtlewood Street between Cumberland and Huntingdon in Strawberry Mansion Thursday night for a prom celebration. Children played in the street, with red, white and blue streamers overhead and gold balloons spelling out "2012" undulating in the evening breeze from their post on a rowhouse porch. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:30:04 GMT fca1a6e8bbb9445ebc09e133cf99edaf 2012-05-25T04:30:04Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153826645&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120525_Cop_attacker_charged_with_stabbing_in_separate_case.html A MAN WHO was shot by a police officer in West Philly Saturday morning after allegedly beating the cop with his own baton allegedly stabbed someone at a Southwest Philly shelter three days earlier, police said Thursday. Sidney Clayton, 31, is now charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and related offenses in the stabbing, Officer Jillian Russell, a police spokeswoman, said. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:16:03 GMT 57681ebfc4a42dc85d956784a73f0917 2012-05-25T04:16:03Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167721&44=153797465&32=3796&7=195372&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20120525_Moving_is_moving_for_this_old_newshound.html An author-signed book, a Hootie and the Blowfish CD, a Baltimore Orioles batting helmet, a curled newspaper with the look and feel of parchment, a certificate of journalistic excellence, a 1989 city-issued municipal telephone directory, a press kit filled with lies, a Howard Eskin bobblehead.That was the top layer, the crust of one of the trash bins standing like corrections officers around our newsroom, a/k/a public housing for a several generations of interracial mice. We are about a month from moving day and, for many reasons, this is not a happy shop. Each year one in six Americans moves, usually voluntarily, but in this time of underwater homes and pop-up foreclosures, many people are forced into it. Thu, 24 May 2012 22:20:07 GMT 6adda24972b791f167be7d49d88b35a5 2012-05-24T22:20:07Z