500 Manhole Covers Stolen From City Streets In Past Year [NBC 10]
About 500 thefts in the last year has[sic] cost the water department and customers $50,000. That includes money spent for manhole cover locks.
“It’ll stop them. Once we lock them down, they can’t get them up,” the department employee said.
Police said thieves are trying to […]

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Nutter defiantly signs five gun laws [Inquirer]
The five laws - called everything from unconstitutional to criminal by critics - do the following:
Limit handgun purchases to one a month.
Require lost or stolen firearms to be reported to police within 24 hours.
Prohibit individuals under protection-from-abuse orders from possessing guns if ordered by the court.
Allow removal of firearms […]

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Guardian Angels get support, but no free fares, in Philadelphia [Inquirer]
With the following photo, which originally was to be shot in the Poconos, until the album title changed to “8th Street” at the last minute-

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‘Scumbags’ get no Peace in Upper Darby [Daily News (The People Paper!)]
Bonus: Upper Darby police chief Michael Chitwood gets to use the word “scumbag” in a press conference for the millionth time.

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SEPTA to increase after-school policing on subway - comments [Inquirer]
Some selections:

The entire Market St. East corridor needs to be redone and the ghetto element needs to be move elsewhere. The intense ghetto flavor increases the likelihood of a continuing violent crime wave.
Posted by franknstein
You’re right, dww. Unless this ghetto element is tamed, and tamed big […]

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