Fatal accident in S. Phila.

Police last night were investigating a fatal auto-pedestrian accident on Columbus Boulevard near Snyder Avenue in South Philadelphia.

Shortly before 8 p.m. an unidentified 29-year-old man was struck by a car as he tried to cross the street, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No charges were filed against the driver last night, police said.

25 years for dealer in death

A convicted drug dealer responsible for the 2005 shooting death of a sleeping teenager in Lindenwold, Camden County, in a drug-turf war, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Derrick M. Jones, 29, of Clementon, pleaded guilty in July to using a firearm for a drug-trafficking crime that resulted in the boy's death and to other federal weapons charges. Barry Robertson, 14, was killed by a bullet that ripped through the outside wall of his aunt's apartment. Jones admitted firing at the apartment seven times.

Catholic teachers have a deal?

The Camden Diocese said yesterday that it had reached a tentative deal on a new contract with teachers who have been on strike at three South Jersey high schools since Monday.

Teachers at Paul VI, in Haddon Township; Holy Spirit, in Absecon, Atlantic County, and Camden Catholic, in Cherry Hill, had been picketing over pay raises and benefit deductions for new teachers.

Andrew Walton, a spokesman for the diocese, said that no details about the agreement would be released until the contract is ratified, but said that teachers could be back in the schools by Monday.

New graduation tests approved

Pennsylvania's public high- school students will soon face a new set of tests in order to graduate. The state's Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 4-1 yesterday to approve the Keystone Exams starting next year. Some of the tests are expected to eventually replace the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exams that 11th-graders now take.

Robbery suspect arrested

Upper Darby police have arrested John Torres, a homeless man accused of helping to tie up and rob an elderly couple in their home in Silverside Heights, New Castle County, Del.

New Castle County police said that Torres would be extradited to face charges that he and Keith Czajka tied up an elderly couple Oct. 8 in their home before robbing them. Czajka is an acquaintance of the couple. Delaware authorities said that they would charge Czajka, who is in jail in Pennsylvania in an unrelated case, with the crime.