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A RELIGIOUS GROUP spewing what the owners of One Liberty Place called hate speech against women, whites and gays can no longer demonstrate immediately outside the building's entrance, a judge ruled yesterday. The owners of the Center City building filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge. The group is frequently perched on street corners shouting at passers-by through bullhorns. Liberty Place Retail Associates, which owns the building, asked the state court to bar the group from gathering in front of the entrance to its 61-story tower at 16th and Chestnut streets.

For the last two years, the meeting held monthly in a bare Trenton conference room determined the fates of hundreds of New Jersey public employees, including scores of teachers and school administrators. But the process has nothing to do with disciplinary actions or tenure or anything like that. The meetings of the five-member Employee Residency Review Committee are all about where people can live if they want to hold onto their jobs. Under the New Jersey First Act, enacted in 2011, all New Jersey public employees must reside in New Jersey.

It had become fashionable in certain circles to mock tea party activists for their vocal warnings about the abusive power of government, with jokes, for instance, about tinfoil hats. But isn't paranoia useful if someone really is out to get you? That question seems relevant in the wake of reports that the IRS was targeting hundreds of right-leaning groups with tea party or patriot in their names for special scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. Officials demanded that the organizations send membership lists, meeting minutes, rosters of donors, their leaders' reading preferences, copies of their pamphlets - even, in some cases, records of posts on social media.

A US Airways executive told the Independence Business Alliance on Monday that Philadelphia's largest airline was pursuing and seriously committed to diversity in its workforce. Suzanne Boda, one of the three highest-ranking women at US Airways and the executive overseeing the airline's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employee group - called Spectrum - said that from chief executive officer Doug Parker down, US Airways was "proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Mike McLaughlin said Haddonfield's record wasn't 9-15 when the Bulldogs took the field for Monday's playoff opener. "We were 0-0, just like everybody else," said McLaughlin, Haddonfield's junior leftfielder. Taking full advantage of the fresh start of the state tournament, Haddonfield rapped 15 hits and scored a 13-5 victory over Colonial Conference rival Collingswood in South Jersey Group 2 action. McLaughlin was 2 for 3 with two RBIs and his 100th career hit, and Mike DeFeo and Mark Ostbye each collected three hits as eighth-seeded Haddonfield (10-15)

Riverside entered Monday afternoon's South Jersey Group 1 first-round baseball game at Maple Shade as the underdog. The two teams compete in the Freedom Division of the Burlington County League and the favored Wildcats had edged the Rams twice in the last two weeks by a combined margin of two runs. The third time proved to be a charm, though, as No. 11 seed Riverside upset sixth-seeded Maple Shade, 3-1, in nine innings. The Rams struck early as junior Cody Ercol drew a bases-loaded walk in the first inning.

PENNSYLVANIA Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille isn't on tomorrow's ballot, but a grassroots group with experience in judicial elections is calling for his ouster come fall. Castille faces voters in November in a yes-or-no retention election, an exercise almost always resulting in judges getting new 10-year terms. But Castille, a former Philly D.A. elected to the high court in 1993, retained in 2003 and head of the judiciary since 2008, has attracted his share of controversy.

Stephanie Celani not only knew the phone number of her patient John Pantalone, she also knew his weight to the half-pound when asked one day this month. That's because Celani, a registered nurse at Advocare L.L.C., a 380-member physicians group in Marlton, has been Pantalone's care coordinator for the last five months, since he was laid low by a serious infection acquired at a rehabilitation hospital. Celani calls Pantalone, 70, of Marlton, almost every day for information, such as his weight, blood pressure, and a figure that shows how his transplanted kidney is working.

An investment group led by George E. Norcross III and Ira Lubert announced Saturday it would bid on the bankrupt Woodcrest Country Club, adding a new player to the mix of potential owners of the Cherry Hill golf course. An auction for the club, which filed for bankruptcy last May and did not open this year, is set for Monday. Three other bidders - Camden County, the Union League of Philadelphia, and a Marlton real estate group - are expected to attend, said club trustee Bonnie Glantz Fatell.