Staff photographer Clem Murray reports:

You’ve heard of high-water pants. Well, meet the high-water car.

Are the wheels too big for the car, or is the car too little for the wheels? You be the judge.

One thing is for sure about this car with “historic” plates, which was parked in a driveway on Browning Road in Merchantville. No little old lady from Pasadena is driving it to church only on Sundays.

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Inquirer staff report:

A 66-year-old man died this morning from injuries suffered in a house fire in North Philadelphia, officials said.

The victim, not identified, was rushed to Hahnemann University Hospital suffering from smoke inhalation, but did not survive.

The fire in a 3-store row home on the 1400 block of Girard Avenue was reported about 1:30 and declared under control within 15 minutes.

Other residents of the building escaped without serious injury. 

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 Inquirer staffer Robert Moran reports:

A double shooting in Southwest Philadelphia tonight sent two men to the hospital, one in critical condition, police said.
At 6:34 p.m., police were called to the 700 block of South 56th Street, where the two men had been shot, police said.
A 21-year-old was shot in the face and was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in critical condition, police said. A 19-year-old was shot in the right leg and right buttock. He was taken to HUP and reported in stable condition.
No arrests were reported.

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Inquirer staff writer Peter Mucha reports:

Police are investigating the daylight shooting that left a man critically wounded inside a van in North Philadelphia this morning.

The victim, described as in his 40s, was rushed to Temple University Hospital with a head wound after the 8:18 am explosion of gunfire at 10th and Clearfield Streets.

No word yet on a possible motive or suspects.

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Staff photographer Clem Murray reports:

Sitting on a railing by the Philadelphia Marine basin trying to watch the sun come up - but not having much luck today -  is Leon Mandipe, 28, of Center City.

Mandipe, who waits tables at Roy's Restaurant on Sansom Street at nights, says he still manages to get up
early three times a week to run six miles along Columbus Blvd. 

The forecast for today calls for partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the low 80s, cooler than yesterday. It will be come mostly cloudy tonight with a chance of showers after midnight.

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Staff photographer Clem Murray reports:

The sun reflecting off a PATCO train crossing the Ben Franklin bridge into Philadelphia this morning offers a portent of things to come.

Today's forecast calls for mostly cloudless skies with summery temperatures into the high 80s or low 90s.

Tomorrow, however, will be cooler with more cloud cover.

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Interstate 95 northbound just south of the Chichester exit is closed as police investigate a pickup truck that burst into flames around 5:45 this morning. (Clem Murray / Staff Photographer)

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Inquirer staff writer Peter Mucha reports:

About 5:45 this morning, a pickup truck became engulfed in flames on northbound I-95 in Lower Chichester, near the Delaware state line.

A report of a fatality, and possible exploding ammunition, could not be confirmed by phone calls to local or state police.

All lanes were blocked for more than an hour, as traffic was routed through the nearby Pennsylvania Welcome Center.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Staff photographer Clem Murray reports:

The shadow re-pointing the brick wall of the Friends' Select School on 16th Street near Race belongs to Eric Straiton.

Straiton, 38, works for the Webber Brick Pointing Company of Philadelphia. He says  his handiwork should last 20 years or so.

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Inquirer staff report:

Delaware is expected to still offer some form of limited sports gambling even though its bid to permit betting on single games has been blocked by a federal court.

 Under an exemption in the 1992 federal law banning sports betting, Delaware and three other states that had some form of sports gambling then, or in the past, were were allowed to continue offering it.

 In Delware’s case that was a short-lived NFL  parlay lottery in 1976 and yesterday the Third Circuit Court of Appeals essentially ruled that the first state could not offer anything beyond that.

Gov. Jack Markel says that while he was disappointed in the ruling “the state still has the legal authority to offer a sports lottery of parlays involving professional football games, which is a competitive advantage for our three racinos.”

A parlay is a combined bet on two or more games in which the bettor has to pick all the winners to collect.

Read today's Inquirer story on the court ruling here.

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