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  • 2nd District Officer pleads guilty to stealing from panhandler
    NEast Philly - February 10, 2012 - 12:37pm
    A Philadelphia Police Officer associated with the 2nd District has pleaded guilty to stealing from a supposed panhandler. Kevin Workman has been sentenced to three years’ probation for stealing from a woman he thought was a panhandler. She was actually an undercover police officer. Workman...
  • Timeline uncertain for Fisker's Delaware car plant
    Inquirer Business - February 10, 2012 - 12:27pm
    Fisker Automotive Inc., which this week said it was laying off 26 workers at a former General Motors plant in Wilmington that was being readied for the manufacture of hybrid cars, said Thursday that it was unclear when production would begin there, given protracted talks over financing with the U.S...
  • South Philadelphia: Potential Plans for Safer Streets Unveiled
    Philadelphia Neighborhoods - February 10, 2012 - 11:40am
    As local residents packed into a tiny room at the Guerin Recreational Center in South Philadelphia, a sense of anticipation filled the air. “This meeting represents a change in culture,” said Mark Keener, an urban designer and member of the Community Design Collaborative. The Bicycle Coalition of...
  • PREIT says its Plymouth Meeting Mall first to add medical center
    Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal - February 10, 2012 - 11:38am
    Remember when it was a big deal if a mall had a food court? Now there’s word that Plymouth Meeting will apparently be the first enclosed mall in the United States to get a health-care center. That’s according to mall owner Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE:PEI), which says the 23,...
  • Home Economics: Take advantage of the mild winter to get a jump on house repairs
    Inquirer Business - February 10, 2012 - 11:25am
    This winter has been a shifty one. One day is fair, the next, well, not particularly wintry. If the weather trends continue, spring cleanup this year should be a snap. No storm damage to worry about, for one thing; no ice dams on the roof, no clogged gutters, no overtaxed furnaces trying to keep...
  • Next American City Says We Can Level I-95
    :::Philebrity...media, culture, music and more::: - February 10, 2012 - 10:30am
    Yesterday, we mentioned the idea of tearing down I-95, and today we have news of people who have already thought in-depth about that idea. They are the people at Next American City, and they are hosting “Reimagining Urban Highways” at the Academy of Natural Sciences on February 23rd. As...
  • SEER Interactive named among the country’s 100 fastest ‘inner-city’ companies [Links]
    Technically Philly - February 10, 2012 - 10:30am
    Megatouch, with regional offices as we’ve recently covered, has released a brand new game for the iPad called “Nerdy Birds Social.” SEER Interactive Named 2012 Inner City 100 Winner [CityBiz List] City’s managing director turns loss of dad, daughter into mission to make...
  • Annette John-Hall: CNN pundit's tweets should spark discussion
    philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News - February 10, 2012 - 10:27am
    So, Roland Martin's suspension has some black folks up in arms. Looks like CNN's indefinite canning of its ascot-wearing, progressive pundit has many of his supporters indignant. Some of them have even begun an online petition drive to get him back on the network sooner.
  • Delaware County seeks to assure safety of shuttered refineries
    philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News - February 10, 2012 - 10:26am
    The closing of two oil refineries could become a financial disaster for Marcus Hook and Trainer, and Delaware County officials said Thursday that they were trying to make sure it didn't also become an environmental one.
  • Wounded pit bull bounces back, SPCA growls at dogfighting
    philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News - February 10, 2012 - 10:22am
    Left for dead, a severely injured pit bull found in Chester County on Monday has undergone a dramatic recovery and provided inspiration to animal-control officers.
  • Deal will keep 25 Northeast schools open after-hours
    NEast Philly - February 10, 2012 - 10:15am
    City and school district officials have  reached an agreement to keep gyms and theaters in public schools open on afternoons and weekends. Cost-cutting plans announced amid the district’s $61 million shortfall included closing the facilities at the end of the school day. Forty-eight schools...
  • Corbett signs off on funding Arlen Specter library
    philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News - February 10, 2012 - 10:12am
    HARRISBURG - During his 2010 gubernatorial campaign, Tom Corbett made the funding of an Arlen Specter library in Philadelphia the punch line of a campaign ad about wasteful government spending.
  • Drilling fee: Inadequate. Transportation plan: Nonexistent.
    It's Our Money - February 10, 2012 - 10:10am
  • The other goal amid dozens of Phila. drug raids
    philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News - February 10, 2012 - 10:07am
    One suspected drug dealer kept a four-foot alligator chained in his basement and two gigantic Burmese pythons in the dining room. He also had seven bundles of crack cocaine in a fish tank in the living room.
  • Report: Perelman complains he's being shut out of PMN bidding
    Inquirer Business - February 10, 2012 - 7:39am
    Philanthropist Raymond G. Perelman has become the second person to complain about being shut out of the bidding for The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com, according to the Associated Press.
  • Grad gives Villanova law school $5M for sports-law center
    Inquirer Business - February 10, 2012 - 7:07am
    The Villanova University law school announced it has received a $5 million gift to underwrite the creation of a center for the study of sports law, its largest gift ever.
  • This district had it coming
    Inquirer Editorial - February 10, 2012 - 4:57am
    Back in the early 2000s, when I was teaching at Villanova, I spent several months studying the hapless efforts of an out-of-state, out-of-touch, for-profit company, Edison Schools, to manage the Chester Upland School District. One day, standing outside a Chester charter school, I tried to greet...
  • A fading picture: Kodak leaving a business it once led
    Inquirer Business - February 10, 2012 - 4:43am
    ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Picture it: Kodak is exiting the camera business. Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it would stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames in a move that marks the end of an era for the beleaguered 132-year-old company.
  • Temple gals hook up with older, richer guys via SeekingArrangement.com
    Daily News Local News - February 10, 2012 - 3:34am
    PAULA'S NOT SOLD on the college dating scene. Because of her workload as a Temple University biochemistry student, she's more likely to be found cracking open books in her dorm than beers at a frat party. Besides, she thinks that guys her age are, like, so immature.
  • Some bumps in the road for 'historic' designation
    Daily News Local News - February 10, 2012 - 3:34am
    STEPHANIE KINDT lives in a spacious 113-year-old home in Overbrook Farms and is excited by the history of her neighborhood.
  • Clout: TV judge makes everyone pay
    Daily News Local News - February 10, 2012 - 3:34am
    TELEVISION court shows are tricky - the guests can come off as both winners and losers once the cameras are rolling.
  • Stu Bykofsky: War crimes haunt Iraq vet
    Daily News Local News - February 10, 2012 - 3:34am
    "I JUST WANTED the college money; that's all I wanted," says John Milton, shaking his head. "But I never went."
  • Perelmans shut out of "weird" bidding for PMN
    Daily News Local News - February 10, 2012 - 3:34am
    CROSS another wealthy potential bidder for Philadelphia Media Network off the list. The Associated Press reported yesterday that local philanthropist Raymond Perelman and his billionaire son, Ronald, complained in a letter to PMN's board on Wednesday that they were not being allowed to bid on the...
  • Man, 24, slain in Germantown
    Daily News Local News - February 10, 2012 - 3:34am
    Man, 24, slain in Germantown * Marion Street near Hansberry A West Oak Lane man was gunned down in Germantown early yesterday, and police are seeking the public's help to track down a man wanted in the shooting.
  • Here, and there, stately homes
    Daily News Local News - February 10, 2012 - 3:34am
    MANY of the homes in Overbrook Farms were built between 1893 and 1929 and designed by architects who became renowned, including Horace Trumbauer, whose firm helped design the Philadelphia Museum of Art; William Price, who designed hotels in Atlantic City and Miami Beach; and Charles Barton Keen.
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