http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F Inquirer local news coverage. en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:33:32 GMT 2009-11-20T12:33:32Z en-us http://media.philly.com/designimages/PhiComLogo_Header.gif http://www.philly.com Philly.com http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600417&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Longtime_firefighter_gets_light_sentence_for_two_Coatesville_arsons.html A former assistant fire chief accused in two Coatesville arsons this year walked into the Chester County Courthouse yesterday in shackles and exited without them, free to go home. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT d37edef7d602a9e545a41b395a9364cb 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600367&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Rowan_football_team_taps_ailing_boy_s_spirit.html No one thought Luke DeFilippo would come this far. Luke, 7, has a rare brain tumor, gliomatosis cerebri. When doctors diagnosed it in October 2003, they told Rick and Laura DeFilippo of Audubon that their baby had two months to two years left. But Luke has far outlived that grim prognosis. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 296dbc29dbea8c3f359b183436fec13e 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600332&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Annette_John-Hall__Killing_Bambi__coddling_Bambi.html It started about a month ago when my puggle, Angel, began barking at fleeting shadows when I took her out at night. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 78228fb76c67e561b4de6fe58f4a4d1d 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600337&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_16_months_in_jail_for_Germantown_rape.html A Germantown man who pleaded guilty in July to raping a woman who could not hear or speak was sentenced yesterday to eight to 16 years in prison by a Philadelphia judge. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:33:32 GMT 25074f9c21b37dd1ac0bc8921036e198 2009-11-20T12:33:32Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600077&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Rumson_flaunts_charms__hoping_regatta_will_stay.html RUMSON, N.J. - When they convene here six months from now for the first Dad Vail Regatta outside Philadelphia in more than half a century, thousands of collegiate rowers on the Navesink River will race past the Salt Creek Grille and take in a view of the splendid Oceanic Bridge and riverfront homes. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 57b68ec6475bde06b4c31b749437449c 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600397&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_District_OKs_bid_for_daily_gym.html The Downingtown Area School District agreed yesterday to allow a Lionville Middle School sixth grader coping with diabetes to take physical-education classes every day, as his family had requested. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 77b25b29c5d75aebe08cb86b9875b242 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600427&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Order_s_up_-_and_so_is_their_gig.html This time, police - and a pizza shop owner - were ready. A week earlier, a delivery call to an Upper Darby pizzeria had come from a blocked number, and the delivery man was robbed at gunpoint. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 1dd1e75698c2a88f193b1d0b58658729 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600067&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Corzine_warns_Christie_on__unenviable__budget_choices.html ATLANTIC CITY - Gov. Corzine's voice wavered as he choked out the words: "From the bottom of my heart, serving you as a U.S. senator and as governor have been the highest points of my life." Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:32:44 GMT 70ef0dd45c34c1229ace29eb0957453f 2009-11-20T12:32:44Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600437&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Farm_family_staves_off_sprawl_in_Bucks.html When 90-year-old Sam Snipes was a boy in the 1920s, Falls Township was a bucolic place with about 2,500 people. Nearly all the land was occupied by farms. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT f96b27446164c3e335d5004a4c1ffe64 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600432&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Chester_residents_applaud_arrests_in_stray-bullet_death.html A crowd of nearly 100 outside the William Penn Homes in Chester burst into applause yesterday when police announced first-degree murder charges against two young men accused in the death of a woman struck by a stray bullet there. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 2fb742523042f9ab1b7bb8092c7a6076 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600412&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Temple_U__adjunct_teachers_stage_a_protest.html Adjunct instructors, who say they make up nearly half of Temple University's faculty, called for better pay and working conditions yesterday at a demonstration in front of the campus bell tower near Paley Library. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 733fbf201eaf6e874221366d08aa00b3 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600377&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Camden_drug-ring__enforcer__guilty_of_murder__other_charges.html Two-Face was stoned-faced yesterday as a federal jury in Camden delivered a verdict that could send him to prison for the rest of his life. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 6e00b88c0ec4933986c826c719504732 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600072&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_John_Lewis_guilty_of_first-degree_murder.html John "Jordan" Lewis, the baby-faced North Philadelphia man whose string of six armed robberies ended with the Halloween 2007 slaying of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy, was found guilty of first-degree murder yesterday by a Philadelphia jury. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT b5a8a725a6d8b592d602fd0d9e6d4c84 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600422&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_City_cyclists_cheer_one_bill__boo_others.html A less-motorized metropolis was the subject of City Council bills yesterday - one to allow human-powered taxis, another seeking strict regulation of the city's estimated 300,000 bicyclists that cycling advocates immediately denounced. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 59690a76585728ff157536a449244dbd 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600407&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Student_and_educator_for_ABCs_and_Ph_D_.html Annemarie Jay had kissed hundreds of her first-grade students on the cheek as they said goodbye on the last day of school. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 7e04c517e3f191366b012f01c4e69b1f 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600402&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Owen_J__Roberts_board_hires_superintendent.html Weeks before six of its nine members leave office, the Owen J. Roberts School District board has hired a superintendent over the objection of many who wanted the new board to make the decision. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 8c7907083b846fb4c0a33e6592d4c03e 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600392&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Devon_subscribers_get_Media_Theatre_offer.html About 700 subscribers to the Devon Theater in Northeast Philadelphia, which has canceled its inaugural season, citing a cut in anticipated state funding, have a new alternative for their unused tickets: a theater 27 miles away. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT dd45fd60b15cfb59518d3329e06ffec4 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600387&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Phila__Education_Fund_bestows_Eddy_Awards.html The Philadelphia Education Fund last night presented its annual Eddy Awards to people and organizations that have helped improve education for youths in the Philadelphia region. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT e3c12ec4379f994db1df85c2a6177576 2009-11-20T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600357&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Ten_arts_programs_in_Chesco__Montco_get_grants.html Ten arts organizations and programs in Chester and Montgomery Counties will receive $143,485 in state funding, State Sen. Andy Dinniman (D., Chester) announced yesterday. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:33:32 GMT cfab4c9ee30efeb971eb255c57403de9 2009-11-20T12:33:32Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=70600362&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20091120_Three_charged_with_hacking_into_Comcast_service.html Three men have been indicted on charges of hacking into Comcast's e-mail and voice-mail service for its Internet customers during two days last year, federal prosecutors announced yesterday. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:33:32 GMT f882c0cb072438077ff8baf52a9c9da8 2009-11-20T12:33:32Z