Fatality

Star player on '79 Penn team fatally stabbed, reports say * Nether Providence, Delaware County Matt White, the star center of the University of Pennsylvania's 1979 Final Four basketball team, was found stabbed to death Monday, and his wife was being questioned, according to media reports. 6ABC reported that White had been found dead in his Nether Providence home in the afternoon. The Delaware County Daily Times cited police sources as saying that the incident was a fatal domestic dispute at the house on Parkridge Drive near Beatty Road, where White lived, according to public records.

Chester Police are investigating the slaying of a 22-year-old man. The man, whose last known address was in Upland, was found face down with gunshots wounds to the back and buttocks. The body was in the rear of a home on the 200 block of Ivy St. Police Sunday morning. Police said the man's name was being withheld pending notification of his family. Police received calls of shots fired in the general area where the body was found about 2 a.m. Sunday. However, when police searched the area, no evidence was found, said Chester Police Capt.

Police this morning continue their investigation into the fatal shooting of a would-be robber last night by the owner of a Tacony deli store. The shootout happened at about 6 p.m. Tuesday at Anna's Deli on the 4400 block of Princeton Avenue. Police say a 19-year-old man approached the deli's cash register, armed with a 9 mm handgun. He then fired two shots at the store owner's wife. That's when the deli owner, identified as a 55-year-old man, emerged from the back of the store with a 9 mm handgun and shot the would-be robber in the chest, according to police.

A fatal accident in Moorestown is causing heavy delays on Route 38 at rush hour, near the stretch of highway where the female driver died around 1:30 p.m., police said. In the single-vehicle accident, a woman driving alone and heading eastbound on Route 38 between Fellowship Road and Moorestown-Mount Laurel Road veered off the road and struck a pole and several signs before striking a second pole and coming to a stop. When Moorestown police arrived minutes later, Lt. Lee Lieber said, the driver was dead at the scene.

THE THREE-STORY brick building on a busy corner in West Philly normally would not draw a second glance. Dead house plants gather dust in the storefront windows of the long-closed business. Moldering mail piles in the foyer. Vandals have busted the windows and sprayed graffiti. Yet some passers-by pause to gawk and even press their faces to the dirty windows for a peek. People died in there. The building is where Kermit Gosnell ran his abortion clinic for 38 years. Authorities raided it in early 2010, thinking Gosnell was running a pill mill.

THE BOW AND ARROW was meant only to scare Kereti Paulsen, to defend a Berlin Borough home against a menace who claimed he was HIV-positive and threatened to poke everyone there with a hot needle. That's what Timothy J. Canfield's attorney said Wednesday in Camden County Superior Court, where the Berlin Borough resident was ordered held on $800,000 bail in the Monday-night slaying of Paulsen. Canfield, 25, pleaded not guilty to killing Paulsen. His attorney, Jeffrey Zucker, said Paulsen was a troubled heroin addict who stalked a former girlfriend who lived at the home at Brill Avenue and Egg Harbor Road in Berlin.

A 74-year-old woman died after being struck by an automobile Tuesday evening in Northeast Philadelphia, police said. About 6:15, the woman was walking across the 12800 block of Knights Road when she was hit by a vehicle, which stopped at the scene, police said. The woman was taken to Aria Health-Torresdale Campus, where she was pronounced dead at 6:44. The accident was under investigation. - Robert Moran

CAMDEN - Felony murder charges have been filed against a Camden man accused of attacking and repeatedly stabbing another city resident this month. Bail has been set at $800,000 for Alexander Santiago, 29. It wasn't known Saturday whether he had an attorney. Camden County prosecutors say Santiago was charged in the Jan. 13 stabbing death of 46-year-old William Ahing. They say Santiago was trying to rob Ahing in the 500 block of State Street at the time. The slaying was the first in Camden this year.

Two men were shot Sunday night, one fatally, on the 600 block of East Ontario Street in Kensington, Philadelphia police said. A 22-year-old man who was not immediately unidentified was wounded once in the chest and twice in his right arm. He was listed in critical condition at Temple University Hospital. The other victim, also not identified, was described as in his mid-20s to early 30s. He was struck in the torso and pronounced dead at the scene at 6:18 p.m. No arrests had been made.