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, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794494&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Life_on_the_lam_ends_for_Liczbinski_suspect.html For three nights Eric DeShawn Floyd and his girlfriend of two months, Tonya Lynne Stephens, lived like cockroaches in a boarded-up rowhouse in Kingsessing, relieving themselves in a bucket amid broken floorboards and busted furniture. She occasionally went out for food, cigarettes, and the crack cocaine they smoked to pass the time. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 63e4f728549011f2bd02c9657fcd69a2 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794489&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_More_Philadelphia_officers_cited_in_beatings.html Seven more Philadelphia police officers were removed from active duty yesterday in the probe of the news video that shows police beating and kicking three shooting suspects after a car chase Monday night. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 872ed407292507743c6eeebb5e206bdf 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794834&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_N_J__bill_allows_scholarships_for_poor_students.html A bill authorizing a pilot program of scholarships to allow low-income children to attend private or out-of-district public schools cleared its first step in the state legislature yesterday. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 1244a21c34026a5fbea216e8d3071b61 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794824&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_One_charged__one_sought_in_A_C__death.html ATLANTIC CITY - A 19-year-old from Somers Point apparently befriended two homeless men in Atlantic City and spent the night drinking with them on the beach before one of the older men killed him, prosecutors said yesterday. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 79b9e0969c8820019fc66f2f29fcc31f 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794829&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_McGreeveys_settle_on_child_custody.html ELIZABETH, N.J. - Former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his estranged wife yesterday settled child-custody matters as they moved closer to dissolving their marriage, their lawyers said. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 5347b4a52a5734e8942951cc958621a4 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794839&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Legislature_eyes_water_tax_to_fund_land_conservation.html TRENTON - New Jerseyans may decide in November whether to create a tax on water use in order to fund the preservation of farmland and open space. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT fe1c45928b642b1f688be705cf1f63ca 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794819&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Woman_escapes_abductor_in_Haddonfield.html A Haddonfield woman escaped as an abductor was driving her away in a van Wednesday, police said. The 50-year-old woman came out of her house in the 100 block of Park Place and began talking with the driver of a white van in her driveway. He then forced her into the van and started driving away, Police Chief Rick Tsonis said yesterday. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 66d23148919396ca1441107c8fea96ea 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794499&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_One_Dad_Vail_rower_already_is_triumphant__Long__hard_pull_to_victory.html As she does nearly every day in good weather, Hilary Armstrong pushed off from a dock on the Schuylkill and used her powerful arms, legs and torso to begin rowing her four-person boat. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 0e4acb77b1d0183e9c6548c96bcd3956 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794869&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Viewing_draws_crowd_to_Far_Northeast_.html More than 250 police officers yesterday made a solemn march - four abreast, up a slowly curving road from Archbishop Ryan High School to John F. Givnish Funeral Home - to look one last time upon the face of their fallen comrade, Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT adf84be31e8bbdf2b09f9762aa332cd1 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794849&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_A_religious_haven_for_the_estranged.html The cockeyed iron crucifix inside St. Miriam Catholic Church in Roxborough is just one clue that this is no ordinary Catholic parish. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 5e026128408f893636528d1caffbc296 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794859&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Casey__Next_HUD_chief_can_heal_rift_with_PHA.html Sen. Bob Casey yesterday voiced optimism that the nominee to take over the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will bring a "fresh approach" to the agency's dispute with the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 3a80653cc535bd2e39645d074057869e 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794894&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Montco_proposes_novel_funding_plan_for_road_project.html With federal and state funding prospects looking grim, Montgomery County officials have devised an unorthodox plan to pay for a road linking downtown Norristown to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a $160 million project considered essential to the community's long-delayed revitalization. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 37b16a956bb2d19b0e3ce58c5125c975 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794904&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Cost_doubled_to_build_Chester_County_safety_center.html In the five years since Chester County proposed building a public safety training center, the costs have nearly doubled. Now, instead of raising $20 million for the facility, officials are looking at a figure closer to $40 million, said John DiBuonoventuro, chairman of the Chester County Public Safety Training Center task force. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT c624b7bc4c155c2a2a316a0fc890432a 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794899&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_4_L__Bucks_police_forces_consider_a_merger.html Two of the four small boroughs are without police chiefs. The other two have part-timers. The time seemed right, some felt, to talk about forming Bucks County's second regional police department. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT fb160bde7ee15f57483d53010296bfcc 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794889&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Facebook_reaches_agreement_on_sex_predators.html Facebook, the world's second-largest social-networking Web site, has reached an agreement with state law enforcement authorities across the country aimed at protecting children from sexual predators. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT f6a31914c70d54986b8def718fe927d0 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794884&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_N_J__school_official_held_in_drug_thefts.html INQUIRER STAFF WRITER A vice principal at Gateway Regional High School was charged with stealing students' prescription drugs from the nurse's office, Woodbury Heights police disclosed yesterday. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT aa28373a80e0745a2921e103222caf6b 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794874&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_No_bias_found_in_lunchtime_detention_Camden_students_made_to_eat_off_paper_mats_on_the_floor_was_called__quot_unacceptable_quot__in_a_report_.html State education investigators have ruled that the Camden bilingual students who were made to sit on a gym floor and eat off paper mats during lunchtime detention were not victims of discrimination but rather of "an unacceptable and demeaning practice that placed the students at risk," according to a newly released examination report. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT eb8f01d6e8dee8a603ddaf7b32af282f 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794879&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Members_named_for_reform_commission_taskforce.html The Philadelphia School Reform Commission yesterday announced members of a task force that will make recommendations on how to improve school-district oversight and communications with city charter schools. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT de97477fb0bbf310490604812c863cf0 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794854&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_Phila__Council_bill_would_require_paid_sick_time.html All employers in the city would have to allow paid sick days for their employees under legislation introduced yesterday by City Councilman Darrell L. Clarke. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 778f28cca5f73122d2f5bce688c9700a 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166771&44=18794844&32=3796&7=195212&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Flocal%2F20080509_To_Submit_Obituaries.html The Inquirer welcomes obituary information from funeral directors, relatives and friends. Please submit information promptly. We want our obituaries to be timely. Recent photographs of publishable quality are desired. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT d6703d6820d97119675b948c15dfcc86 2008-05-09T07:01:00Z