Eight City Council employees, along with 20 friends and family members, used city-owned Blackberries in scam run by a Division of Technology employee who now must pay the city $30,000.
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has a major lead in campaign fund-raising but former U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey is closing the gap, raising twice as much as Specter in the first three months of 2010.
City Council moves forward legislation to cut the salaries of members of the Board of Revision of Taxes.
And the watchdog group Committee of 70 calls on the city to withhold funding from the troubled Clerk of Quarter Sessions office.