"Police check Facebook posting after killing" August 17, 2011|Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are investigating two theories in connection with the death of a man gunned down hours after a judge upheld felony charges against his former girlfriend, who was accused of offering $1,000 on Facebook for someone to kill him....
“I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father,’’ Corey White’s ex-girlfriend, 20-year-old London Eley of Philadelphia, wrote in a post this spring, according to a police affidavit.
“Say no more … what he look like … where he be at … need that stack 1st,’’ 18-year-old Timothy Bynum of suburban Darby wrote back, police said.
A “stack’’ is $1,000, investigators said.
Eley’s attorney said at Monday’s hearing that his client was merely venting about an argument she’d had with her ex-boyfriend and had no intention of following through.
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Someone else who got big stacks:
"Philadelphia schools chief agrees to go" August 23, 2011|Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - The city’s embattled schools superintendent abruptly left the district yesterday with $900,000 promised in severance, capping a tumultuous tenure that saw increased test scores and graduation rates but also clashes with community members, the teachers union, and elected leaders....
Arlene Ackerman’s tenure collapsed over the past few months as the district faced a colossal hole in its $2.8 billion budget, disputes with the teachers union, and criticism of everything from her salary to her management style.
She is credited with continuing the district’s rise in test scores as well as lowering class sizes in primary grades, creating a parent-outreach program, and launching an initiative to transform chronically failing schools.
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"Soldier sought in 4 slayings found dead after manhunt" August 29, 2011|Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - A soldier suspected of killing four people in Pennsylvania and Virginia was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in suburban Philadelphia after a daylong search during which he fired at and injured officers, authorities said....
Leonard John Egland, 37, of Fort Lee, Va., had recently returned from the latest of three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, said David Heckler, district attorney in Bucks County.
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"4 die in flash floods that swallowed cars
PITTSBURGH - Flash floods that killed four people and forced others to swim to safety or climb onto car roofs was a freak accident caused by heavy rainfall that overwhelmed the sewer system just as rush-hour traffic clogged low-lying city streets, officials said yesterday. A mother and her two daughters died in Friday’s flood after becoming trapped in their vehicle. Another woman’s body was washed into the Allegheny River. Back-to-back storms had pounded the city with 3 to 4 inches of rain (AP)."
PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are investigating two theories in connection with the death of a man gunned down hours after a judge upheld felony charges against his former girlfriend, who was accused of offering $1,000 on Facebook for someone to kill him....
“I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father,’’ Corey White’s ex-girlfriend, 20-year-old London Eley of Philadelphia, wrote in a post this spring, according to a police affidavit.
“Say no more … what he look like … where he be at … need that stack 1st,’’ 18-year-old Timothy Bynum of suburban Darby wrote back, police said.
A “stack’’ is $1,000, investigators said.
Eley’s attorney said at Monday’s hearing that his client was merely venting about an argument she’d had with her ex-boyfriend and had no intention of following through.
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Someone else who got big stacks:
"Philadelphia schools chief agrees to go" August 23, 2011|Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - The city’s embattled schools superintendent abruptly left the district yesterday with $900,000 promised in severance, capping a tumultuous tenure that saw increased test scores and graduation rates but also clashes with community members, the teachers union, and elected leaders....
Arlene Ackerman’s tenure collapsed over the past few months as the district faced a colossal hole in its $2.8 billion budget, disputes with the teachers union, and criticism of everything from her salary to her management style.
She is credited with continuing the district’s rise in test scores as well as lowering class sizes in primary grades, creating a parent-outreach program, and launching an initiative to transform chronically failing schools.
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"Soldier sought in 4 slayings found dead after manhunt" August 29, 2011|Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - A soldier suspected of killing four people in Pennsylvania and Virginia was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in suburban Philadelphia after a daylong search during which he fired at and injured officers, authorities said....
Leonard John Egland, 37, of Fort Lee, Va., had recently returned from the latest of three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, said David Heckler, district attorney in Bucks County.
--more--"
"4 die in flash floods that swallowed cars
PITTSBURGH - Flash floods that killed four people and forced others to swim to safety or climb onto car roofs was a freak accident caused by heavy rainfall that overwhelmed the sewer system just as rush-hour traffic clogged low-lying city streets, officials said yesterday. A mother and her two daughters died in Friday’s flood after becoming trapped in their vehicle. Another woman’s body was washed into the Allegheny River. Back-to-back storms had pounded the city with 3 to 4 inches of rain (AP)."
