Action News WEST PHILADELPHIA - May 24, 2012 (WPVI) -- A man is in critical condition after being shot by police in West Philadelphia. The incident occurred along the 400 block of North 53rd Street around 3:40 p.m. Police responded for the report of a man with a gun. Officials say when officers encountered the man, at some point, he produced the gun, resulting in police shooting the suspect. The man managed to run into a local business and was then transported to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for care. (Copyright ©2012 WPVI-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.) Get more Local/State » Tags:philadelphia, west philadelphia, police, shooting, local/state Continue reading →

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UPDATE: Two 13-year-old girls in critical condition after shooting in North Philadelphia NBC10 is reporting: One girl is in critical condition and the other in stable, according to police. The shooting happened just before 6:00 p.m. on the 2500 block of North Myrtlewood Street. @KennethMoton of 6ABC is on the scene: Breaking: Two 13-year-old girls shot during gun battle in N Philly on 2500 Myrtlewood. Both alive, one critical twitter.com/KennethMoton/s… — Kenneth Moton (@KennethMoton) May 24, 2012 UnPhiltered is tweeting with photos from the scene for @phillydailynews On the scene of a shooting on Cumberland Street in N. Philadelphiayfrog.com/ocvjakdj — Phillip Lucas (@UnPhiltered) May 24, 2012 This entry was posted on May 24, 2012, 7:08 pm and is filed under News. You can follow any ... Continue reading →

There was a lot of story buried in a piece the Inquirer published in April on one of its brand-new owners, Lewis Katz, the Camden-raised entrepreneur, sports-team owner and philanthropist: “Katz and his wife, Marjorie, have two children. The couple have lived apart for many years. Katz is in a long-term relationship with Nancy Phillips, an award-winning Inquirer investigative reporter.” On one level, the passage is remarkably French—identifying both Katz’s wife and his mistress without so much as the literary equivalent of a raised eyebrow. On another, it raises a host of questions, from exactly how these relationships work to what the heck will be going on at the Inquirer when one of its reporters is also a de facto owner. In the short term, ... Continue reading →

Social scientists are increasingly looking at online friendships and trying to figure out if they carry the same emotional baggage that real-world friendships do. A preliminary study suggests that breaking up, even if it’s on Facebook, is hard to do. The more you use Facebook, the more likely you are to experience “rumination and negative emotion” when someone unfriends you, according to a study published in the July 2012 edition of the scholarly journal Computers in Human Behavior. The study by Chapman University researchers Jennifer L. Bevan, Jeanette Pfyl and Brett Barclay is one of the first to look at the psychological consequences of so-called relationship termination on social networks. Other factors that increased the pain of being unfriended included: How close the person was ... Continue reading →

The news is spreading here in New Orleans and across the journalism world: the fabled Times-Picayune, as we all know it, may cease to exist. Visitors tour Hurricane Katrina front pages from The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans and the Sun Herald of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, as part of the 'Covering Katrina' exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC. (Image credit: AFP via @daylife) Writing in The New York Times, David Carr gave details in today’s edition of what seems to have been a closely guarded secret. According to his sources, Newhouse Newspapers, a division of Advance Publications, the Times-Pic’s owner, plans to discontinue the daily paper and embrace the model that it used in Ann Arbor, Mich. That means relying heavily on the ... Continue reading →