The Inquirer staff reports:

Eugene DiNatale, 62, of Trumbauersville, was sentenced in federal court today to 42 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and filing false corporate income tax returns on behalf of clients, U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy said.
DiNatale, owner and operator of DiNatale & Associates Ltd. in Rockledge, pleaded guilty April 6 to the tax fraud conspiracy and to seven counts of aiding and assisting the filing of false income tax returns.
Codefendant Chakawarn Sirirathasuk, a senior accountant for D&A who provided tax preparation services, has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
The schemes resulted in estimated tax losses to the IRS of more than $4 million <NO1>$4,341,284<NO>in unpaid employment taxes and <NO1>$75,234<NO>more than $75,000 in unpaid corporate income taxes between 2001 and 2004, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick ordered DiNatale to pay $4.3 million in restitution and a $3,000 fine.
 

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 The Inquirer staff reports:

The new Church Hill Road Bridge over Gallow Run in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, was opened this afternoon, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said.
Church Hill Road has been closed between Route 611 and Route 412 since March 2.
Under the $531,024 project, crews removed the old two-lane bridge, which was built in 1939, and replaced it with a concrete box culvert that is 28 feet wide and 18 feet long. The bridge has two 11-foot travel lanes and three-foot shoulders. The old Church Hill Road Bridge carried about 1,800 vehicles a day, PennDot said.
PennDot District Executive Lester C. Toaso said the Church Hill Road Bridge replacement project was part of Gov. Rendell’s Rebuild Pennsylvania initiative that invested an additional $350 million this past fiscal year to help repair or replace 411 structurally deficient bridges statewide.
 

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Inquirer staff report:

A 25-year-old man has been arrested and charged with shooting and killing a 21-year-old woman and her mother in Egg Harbor Township.

The Press of Atlantic City reports that Nicholas Nigro III, of Egg Harbor Township, is being held on $2 million bail at the Atlantic County Jail.

Police found Maryjane Buri-Mulder, 47, a casino cocktail waitress, and her daughter Paula Mulder shot dead yesterday in their home in the township’s Shire development.

Officials said no other suspects are being sought. They have not yet disclosed a motive.

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 The Associated Press reports:

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is closing the gap with GOP opponent Chris Christie in his bid for a second term, a new poll shows.

Independent candidate Chris Daggett also is gaining ground and is becoming a factor in the race.

The Quinnipiac University poll released today finds the incumbent Democrat has pulled to within 4 percentage points of Christie. Christie still leads 43 percent to 39 percent among likely voters surveyed. A Sept. 1 poll had Christie up by 10 points.

Daggett, the third party candidate, is pulling in 12 percent, 3 percentage points higher than on Sept. 1.

The telephone survey of 1,188 likely voters was taken Sept. 23-28 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.

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Staff photographer Clem Murray reports:

Motorists headed to - or driving on - the Schuylkill Expressway now have a new tool to help them navigate their trips.

Thirteen new electric message boards went into operation today, telling drivers how long it will take to travel to various interchanges.

Here, the message board on the westbound Expressway (I-76) at the interchange with the Vine Street Expressway (I-676) flashes the times to travel to the U.S. 1 and I-476 interchanges.

And the time to the U.S. 1 was accurate because it  took this driver the predicted 7 1/2 minutes to travel the 4 miles to get there.

Eight message boards are on the Schuykill and five others on roadways feeding into it.

PennDOT measures the travel times using vehicles with E-ZPass transponders that pass tag readers along the road.

“The sign reads the transponder and measures the time from point A to point B,” said agency spokesman Gene Blaum said. "This comes into the computer at the control center, and calculations are done through a computer algorithm."

PennDot hopes to put message signs on I-95 at Woodhaven Road, near Philadelphia International Airport, and at the Delaware line. 

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Sir'mone McCaulla

Inquirer staff report:

An Army reservist wanted in the killing of a man outside Manhattan’s main post office has been found dead in West Philadelphia.

The New York Daily News reports that Sir'mone McCaulla, 28, was found yesterday in his ex-girlfriend’s apartment, slumped in a tub with a plastic bag over his head in an apparent suicide.

McCaulla had been sought in the fatal stabbing of Christopher Gutierrez, 20, during a dispute that erupted Sunday when the two bumped into each outside the James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue, across from Penn Station.

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Staff photographer Clem Murray reports:

Crews worked through the night to fill in a sinkhole that appeared on the Whitemarsh Township side of Butler Pike between Germantown Pike and Plymouth Road yesterday afternoon.

They still had some more work to do as the morning rush hour got under way today.

The sinkhole, which was five feet deep, appeared after a water main break.

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Firefighters this afternoon battled a fire on the Ocean City Boardwalk.

The extent of damage at Johnson's Popcorn at 14th Street is not known. But Breaking News Network, which monitors official radio broadcasts, reports that the fire has been knocked down.

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Inquirer staff report

Forty-three passengers on a dolphin sighting cruise out of Atlantic City reportedly got more than they bargained for yesterday when rough seas forced them turn back and then ripped off a section of the boat’s bow.

The Press of Atlantic City reports that the Cruisin’ 1 with Capt. Jeff George at the helm encountered winds of 28 to 35 mph and 4- to 7-foot seas when he decided to turn back only 10 minutes out.

No one was hurt and the boat returned to its pier under its own power although a number of marine rescue craft responded to a distress call.

The boat usually does not operate on Mondays but booked a tour for a group of people who had off from school and work for Yom Kippur, the Press reports.

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