TODAY'S TOP STORY
Get rid of the security grate, the Phila. zoning board told the owners. Within months, three windows were broken.
Kristen Kammerer's first thought was: Not again.
It was another broken window - the third time in six months that either the front window or the door at her Sansom Street tea bar had been shattered.
TODAY'S LOCAL & REGION NEWS
- The police department's new head of field operations faced a difficult first week with a brisk aplomb.As the new head of field operations for the Philadelphia Police, Deputy Police Commissioner Richard J. Ross Jr. might have preferred an easier week to start his new job.
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Princess, the 6-year-old runaway mare that bolted from its owner in Germantown on Saturday, is 31/2-months pregnant, according to the Pennsyvlania SPCA's chief veterinarian.
- So far, Mayor Nutter is a pretty popular guy in Philadelphia. But it's looks as though his appeal isn't limited to the city, or even to the region.
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Barry Morrison listened with a modest smile last week as one speaker after another extolled his "courage" and "passion" and "integrity."
- A former college student accused of stealing people's credit to travel the world with her Ivy League boyfriend is nearing a federal plea deal, her lawyer said.
- Saying he was on a "fact-finding mission", the Rev. Al Sharpton met yesterday with one of the three victims of a videotaped police beating.
- Photographer Tom Gralish takes a weekly look at our urban landscape.
- Many have not filed the legally mandated reports of how they have closed out their campaign accounts and distributed the money.Four months after a historic turnover in the New Jersey State Legislature, close to half its newest alumni have yet to fulfill their final duties as officeholders.
- Mother-son N.J. Guard sergeants deploying to IraqTEANECK, N.J. - Mother-and-son soldiers are set to go to Iraq in the same New Jersey National Guard unit.
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ELIZABETH, N.J. - Former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his estranged wife, having reached a deal on custody of their child, return to court today in a bid to settle other issues as they work to dissolve their marriage.
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TRENTON - A bad week likely looms for New Jersey's already cash-strapped budget proposal. Assembly and Senate budget committees will meet tomorrow and Wednesday to hear new tax-collection estimates from state and legislative budget officials.
- Charlie Siegel is leaving Pa. to be online-only from Fla.ERIE - Doug Green had always planned to set up the old Lionel train again, but after more than 30 years of good intentions, the Millcreek Township man decided to sell his boxes full of engines, cars and track to Train City.
- PITTSBURGH - A bride and groom accused of fighting with members of another wedding party at their Western Pennsylvania hotel now face more serious charges.
- Dispute could change how and where suds are sold.HARRISBURG - Michael Cortez never dreamed he'd be heading to the highest court in the state over a six-pack of beer.
- WASHINGTON - Here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress were recorded on major roll-call votes last week: House Federal mortgage relief. Voting 266-154, the House authorized a program in which mortgage holders would refinance hundreds of thousands of at-risk home loans in return for Federal Housing Administration backing of those loans and other benefits. Now befor
- Ho Chi Minh causes trouble for immigrant from Saigon - again.Nothing can erase the 11 harsh years Quang Le spent in a communist prison in Vietnam, return the wife who left him then, or dissolve his sadness at knowing his children licked discarded candy wrappers for their only taste of sugar after the war.
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SEPTA was late for its own party. More than a year late. But as if no one would notice, the transit agency yesterday hung banners proclaiming: "Celebrate 100 years. 69th Street Terminal and Route 100 Norristown High Speed Line."
- It traveled Germantown and Mount Airy, hitting cars and people and forcing a road closure.A runaway horse that bolted from its owner in Germantown, crashed into a car, and injured its occupants before leading authorities on a nearly two-mile chase was turned over last night to the Pennsylvania SPCA.
- Isaac Albright, 33, is the second friend accused of aiding the fugitive in the Liczbinski case.Police have charged a second person with helping Eric DeShawn Floyd elude a dragnet last week after the murder of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, and investigators say they're not finished rounding up friends who helped the fugitive flee.
- The African American Family Conference wants communities to take control of their fates.Presenters and attendees at a Philadelphia conference on African American families yesterday tackled the problems of the black community with a focus on small steps close to home.
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A man fatally shot himself behind a Willingboro restaurant late Friday after a gunfight with police, Burlington County officials said last night.
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NEWARK, N.J. - A new takeoff pattern intended to ease congestion at Newark Liberty International Airport has confused some pilots and led several times to planes turning in the wrong direction, according to the union that represents air traffic controllers.
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