This afternoon we'll hear the mournful bells of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul toll after the Funeral Mass of yet another Philadelphia police officer.
A Phila. son killed in Vietnam will be reburied at Arlington.
Last Friday in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, people kept referring to "Michael's day."
As in Michael J. Crescenz, a 19-year-old from the West Oak Lane neighborhood and St. Athanasius parish who was killed in action in Vietnam, and whose valor earned him the Medal of Honor.
- Funeral services prompt road closures
- Finally, city can begin mourning Liczbinski
Elmer Smith: Half the columnists or commentators in this market can expect a call from a network or news service in the aftermath of one of these police stompings.
But unlike the Rodney King beating, this city is not about to go up in flames - despite what I think is a clear instance of police brutality.
But unlike the Rodney King beating, this city is not about to go up in flames - despite what I think is a clear instance of police brutality.
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Jill Porter: Toll on real estate: Townhouses going on the auction block
- THE TROUBLED real- estate market has taken its toll on the city's noble experiment in public-private housing that made neighbors of rich and poor in East Falls.
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Clout: O say, you can see Timmy Kelly on CBS 3
- LITTLE Timmy Kelly isn't so little anymore. The blind Bustleton kid with cerebral palsy who can sing his heart out (and has, for the Philadelphia Eagles, for President Bush, for Gov. Rendell) has been a nice little local story since 2001 when he sang a rousing "Star-Spangled Banner" at the first home game of the Camden Riversharks as a tiny 8-year-old.
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Daniel Rubin: In golf, writer finds slices of life
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So why a book about golf, I ask, if you hate golf, hate golf writing, and think the sport started by drunken, hairy Scots has become a tame, joyless Tiger Inc., where grown men walk around in clothes that look like something Mom picked out for them?
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Their mutual love, despite all odds, is no mother-in-law joke
- AND NOW, in honor of Mother's Day this Sunday, I bring you the story of Janet McCall and her daughter-in-law, Carmen Superville. Their adoration for each other is so strong, it has transcended race, culture and the death of Janet's son, John, to whom Carmen was married.
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Michael Smerconish: Justice was served by 'Officer X'
- The Philadelphia police officer who put down Howard Cain on Saturday, minutes after Cain executed Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, did society a favor. The criminal-justice system would never have brought about such a just ending.
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Worldview: The looming threat to Israel lies within
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When Israel's independence was proclaimed in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, as leaders of the nascent state sang "Hatikva" (Hope), few could have imagined the vibrant state that exists today.
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Monica Yant Kinney: Combating the quarry
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The way Hubert Brewster reads Highway Materials Inc. v. Hubert J. and Barbara L. Brewster, a Montgomery County quarry wants a judge to force him off his property so a big business can get bigger.
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Jill Porter: How many must die before gun lobby gets message?
- THE WOUNDS deepen. The city reels from the murder of Sgt. Stephen Liczbin-ski, and in the midst of it, there are more blows to our sensibilities:
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John Baer: A fair plan for choosing between them
- YOU KNOW she's not going away. You know the spin today, tomorrow, next week (bring on West Virginia!) will be about how she's a fighter who never gives up (bring on Kentucky!).
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