Aftermath

DONTA CRADDOCK and Ivan Rodriguez were brought to tears Wednesday afternoon upon hearing that they had been found guilty of four counts of second-degree murder and would spend the rest of their lives in state prison. "Sorry, Mom, for letting you down and everything. Even though I'm going to be in for the rest of my life, I'm sorry," Craddock, 21, softly said from the wheelchair he has been confined to since the fatal car crash he caused while fleeing a robbery scene on June 10, 2009.

UP NEXT Who: Eagles (2-3) at San Francisco (2-3) When: Sunday, 4:15 p.m. Where: Candlestick Park TV: Fox Radio: WYSP (94.1-FM), WIP (610-AM) Last meeting: Eagles won, 38-24, on Sept. 24, 2006. Series history: Niners lead, 17-9-1. Noteworthy: The 49ers have been using an alignment they call Big Sub, with four linemen, two linebackers and five defensive backs. EAGLES INJURY REPORT -- Brian Westbrook, rib contusion. Went into the locker room for X-rays, but returned to the game.

An injured worker is carried from the scene of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed Thursday while under construction in Bridgeport, Conn. At least a dozen workers were known dead, and rescuers were using ultra- sensitive microphones and trained dogs to search for survivors.

A short time before the Million Man March I read letter written to the Daily News which characterized Jill Porter as a racist. I read the paper and Ms. Porter regularly and decided that this was an observation no one could make for me and marched on to her next columns. On Oct. 18, as I walked through the paper, my journey was stopped by a brick wall called "March was glorious but Farrakhan isn't. " It was Jill Porter's latest. While she'll probably never admit to what really colors her opinion, her second sentence spoke volumns more than the entire column could ever do. She wrote, "In the aftermath of the Million Man March, a bigot is celebrated . . . " As I thought about how exhausted I was by the toll of the event on my body and the challenge to my mind, I wondered just what types of events have aftermaths.

Mark Lord, 31, of the 600 block of Loraine Street, Ardmore, was arraigned March 29 on charges of homicide by vehicle in the aftermath of a Jan. 26 car accident that killed a Havertown man. According to police, Lord failed to yield the right of way and turned left onto Manoa Road from Pembroke Road, striking a truck driven by Robert L. Eck, 65, of the 300 block of Eagle Hill Road, Havertown. The accident occurred at 5:47 p.m. on Jan. 26. According to Sgt. Charles Brooks of Haverford Township Police, Eck got out of the car and started to walk to a house on Manoa Road to report the incident.

A free public program on the effects of terrorism on public health and mental health will be presented at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 S. 22d St., at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 5. John Domzalski, Philadelphia public health commissioner, will moderate the event, which will feature Marci Layton, the assistant commissioner for communicable disease in the New York City Department of Health, and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, a faculty member of Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

A wooden stake stands where each body part was found. The tip of each stake is painted red. They spread by the hundreds across the scarred soybean field, pelted by the autumn rain yesterday. The thicket of stakes grows dense around the crater opened when the plane slammed down Monday, ending the lives of 68 people. Yesterday the field littered with the aftermath was opened to outsiders for the first time. Amid ordinary signs of the recent Indiana harvest comes the powerful realization that a sophisticated 45,000-pound aircraft and the bodies of 68 people splintered into pieces too tiny to recognize.

WASHINGTON - Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents' behavior in Colombia just before President Obama's visit for a summit meeting last week. Mark Sullivan, the agency's director, went to the White House late Friday to brief Obama. The Secret Service announced the new resignations, bringing to six the number of agency officers who have lost their jobs because of events at their hotel in Cartagena.

SOME HAVE likened the recruiting process to a cattle drive in an old Western movie. You hit the trail with so many steers in the herd, but are always apt to lose a few strays along the way. This year, more so than in the past, Penn State was unable to put its brand on some of the prime prospects who originally appeared to be destined for delivery to Happy Valley. But the Jerry Sandusky child-sexual abuse scandal and the long delay in naming Bill O'Brien as the Nittany Lions' new coach led to the decommitments of eight highly regarded players, four of whom signed binding national letters-of-intent with Ohio State yesterday.

"INTO THE Abyss" introduces us to a pair of flagrantly guilty killers - one about to die by lethal injection, one serving life. They are unrepentant, unwilling to admit to their obvious roles in a senseless triple murder. They tell the most preposterous cover stories and point the finger at one another. No honor among thieves/killers, no remorse, no sense of responsibility, no compassion for the victims or their suffering families, who are interviewed extensively. Nothing, really, to stir the slightest sympathy for the killers, plenty to fuel disgust.

UP NEXT Who: Dallas at Eagles When: Oct. 30, 8:20 p.m. Where: Lincoln Financial Field TV: NBC10 Radio: WIP (94.1-FM, 610-AM) Series history: Dallas leads, 59-45. The Cowboys have won four of the last five and the teams are 4-4 at the Linc. Last meeting: Dallas won, 14-13, at the Linc last January. INJURY REPORT: -- Michael Vick: Had the wind knocked out of him, Andy Reid said. Vick indicated he was out of the game because some dirt had gotten under his visor and into his face.

The sum of our fears is $460 billion. That's the federal budget for homeland security since 9/11. The most visible expression of that money - and that anxiety - is on display every day at every airport in the country: metal detectors, full-body scanners, uniformed screening officers, and lines of shoeless passengers shuffling through checkpoints. Transportation, especially air travel, has been transformed by America's efforts to avoid more terrorist attacks. Security procedures in the 10 years since 9/11 have brought travelers burdensome new realities.

Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks and America's Rush to War By David Willman Bantam Books. 448 pp. $27 Reviewed by Paul Jablow Mirage Man is something of an odd title for this book, but then again some of the best ones were taken. Like Ship of Fools or The Perfect Storm . It's a daunting task for a writer: Spin a captivating detective yarn where the outcome is known but unsatisfying, the villains are abundant and the heroes scarce. Willman, a prodigious researcher who covered this sordid tale for the Los Angeles Times, is definitely up to the task even if one conclusion seems a bit of a stretch.

In one of her photos of the boarded-up homes on Osage Avenue near 62nd Street, the block destroyed by fire when the city dropped a bomb there 26 years ago, Drexel University student Kara Khan shows what was left behind in one vacated, rebuilt house. "There were children's school projects on the wall still," Khan said. "Toys were everywhere. Piles of clothing. I was terrified when I opened the door and thought, 'Oh my God, does someone still live here?' " To Khan, 22, who will graduate from Drexel next Saturday, the photo of the vacant home full of a family's belongings is a metaphor for the neighborhood itself.

So, the Phillies beat the Reds, 5-4, in 19 innings in a game that started Wednesday night. It was the sixth-longest game in Phillies history and it finally ended when Raul Ibanez, who was 1-for-8, drove home Jimmy Rollins with a sacrifice fly. The game lasted so long that we almost forgot that Roy Halladay was the starting pitcher, so many hours ago. A look at some numbers from an epic Wednesday night and Thursday morning at Citizens Bank Park:...