Incident

NEW YORK - Carnival Cruise Lines prices have taken a dip this spring, according to pricing data, and some industry observers blame headlines about problems on several Carnival ships. Todd Elliott, owner of Cruise Vacation Outlet, said his agents had seen a drop in price of 20 percent or more for equivalent cruises. "Rates are far lower than I have seen in a while; for example, the Carnival Dream, seven nights, Eastern Caribbean out of Port Canaveral, May 4 is $299 per person," he said.

MORE BAD NEWS has come to former hero cop Richard DeCoatsworth, who resigned from the department last month under cloudy circumstances. DeCoatsworth, 25, is being investigated by his old department for allegedly threatening a man and a woman on a Port Richmond street on Jan. 25. "To sum it up, he pretty much threatened someone," Officer Tanya Little said yesterday. The incident occurred on Salmon Street near Lehigh Avenue, she said, and shortly after, the couple reported the alleged threat to police.

On any given day during the last several seasons you might have found five or six Eagles sprawled out in their locker stalls catching some midday zzzzs. In most cases, the players would build themselves a makeshift bed with pillow, their heads covered with a shirt or some other piece of clothing, their outstretched legs obstructing passage through the narrow lockerroom at the NovaCare Complex. There were other places to sleep - the lounge, the trainer's room - and, it seemed, plenty of opportunities for exhausted players to nap under Andy Reid.

An 18-year-old woman has been charged with simple assault after an "altercation" last week with Mayor Nutter's daughter, Olivia. Ciarra Ryan surrendered to Northwest Detectives on Monday, police said. The incident followed a track meet at a stadium on East Sedgwick Street in East Mount Airy on April 18, police said. According to court records, Ryan was accused of punching Olivia Nutter in the head and face and pulling her hair. Few details were available Wednesday about what led to the incident - police said there had been "a verbal altercation.

A man was arrested Tuesday in a scuffle with another man at the Occupy Philly site near City Hall. At 2 p.m., cops had the unidentified alleged assailant in handcuffs, while blood trickled down another man's face. "He's just high on drugs and wanted to start a fight with me," said the alleged victim, Brad Wilson. Wilson, who is homeless, said the other man had sucker-punched him. Police said the alleged assailant would be taken to Central Detectives, where he likely would be charged with simple assault.

The only thing louder than the hubbub surrounding what happened at an early-morning Holy Family University basketball practice one month ago today is the silence emanating from the school's administration. Basketball coach John O'Connor has resigned his position as a result of the controversy that followed an incident during the Jan. 25 practice in which he struck sophomore forward Matt Kravchuk. O'Connor said the extent of the contact was unintentional. Kravchuk, who filed a criminal assault charge, disagrees.

PENN STATE is without punter Anthony Fera, who has not been practicing due to his second alcohol-related incident. Fera, 20, a redshirt sophomore from Cypress, Texas, pleaded guilty on Aug. 4, to two summary offenses, according to court documents. He was charged with purchasing alcohol by a minor and disorderly conduct/fighting. Fera paid more than $650 in fines for the June 7 incident. In 2010, he was cited for purchase/possession of alcohol by a minor. That charge was dismissed.

Two men were killed Thursday night near Eighth and Jackson Streets in Camden in what authorities think was one incident. Daquanta Watts, 18, of Camden, had multiple wounds and was found lying in a grassy lot about 10:45, police said. He was pronounced dead about an hour later at Cooper University Hospital. David Rivera, 17, of Clementon, was discovered dead in an alley about a block and a half away, police said. Anyone with information about the case is being asked to call Investigator Pete Longo at 856-225-8400 or Camden Police Detective Vince Robinson at 856-757-7420.

FLYERS DEFENSE prospect Shayne Gostisbehere has been suspended for one game by the International Ice Hockey Federation for an incident that occurred on Monday during the United States' 9-3 victory over Slovakia at the World Junior Championships in Russia. Gostisbehere, selected by the Flyers in the third round of the 2012 draftm will sit out the USA's quarterfinal game against the Czech Republic on Wednesday. After a review, the IIHF Disciplinary Panel determined that Gostisbehere skated up behind Slovakia's Matus Matis and forcefully drove his stick between Matis' legs, striking him in the groin area.

TEN MINUTES into a Colwyn Borough Council meeting Thursday night, the mayor and council president were arguing and residents were yelling, prompting a man to cover his face with his baby to hide his laughter. "Bring out the playpen and rattles, here we go," one resident said under his breath. For the official business of the raucous meeting, the council rescinded the mayor's state of emergency and reinstated a controversial police supervisor who remains under investigation for an alleged Tasering incident involving a juvenile who allegedly was handcuffed in a holding cell.

LeSean McCoy is being sued by a woman who claims the Eagles running back sprayed her with a beverage on a party bus and then kicked her off the vehicle on the New Jersey Turnpike in December, according to court documents. She also claims she was struck during the episode, but no charges have been filed. The lawsuit was filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on May 10 by a woman using the name "Mary Roe. " According to the lawsuit, McCoy "invited 15 women to join him on a party bus that went from Philadelphia to a New York nightclub on Dec. 18, 2012.

An 18-year-old woman has been charged with simple assault after an "altercation" last week with Mayor Nutter's daughter, Olivia. Ciarra Ryan surrendered to Northwest Detectives on Monday, police said. The incident followed a track meet at a stadium on East Sedgwick Street in East Mount Airy on April 18, police said. According to court records, Ryan was accused of punching Olivia Nutter in the head and face and pulling her hair. Few details were available Wednesday about what led to the incident - police said there had been "a verbal altercation.

Philadelphia police arrested one of their own officers Wednesday for an alleged assault in 2011 - caught on surveillance video - and suspended him in anticipation of firing. The District Attorney's Office charged Aquil Byrd, 32, a 12-year veteran assigned to the Narcotics Strike Force, with simple assault and official oppression, both misdemeanors. Byrd was accused of assaulting a man Sept. 25, 2011, in North Philadelphia during the Puerto Rican Day Festival. The District Attorney's Office on Wednesday gave the following account of the 2011 incident: Byrd was among officers called to Front and Clearfield Streets in North Philadelphia to disperse a large crowd in front of a Chinese take-out restaurant.

A variety of violent incidents across Philadelphia Saturday night and Sunday morning left two people dead and five others injured, according to police. Two of those injured were in critical condition, police said. One man, 24, was found dead in a blue GMC Yukon SUV near Harrowgate Plaza shopping center, in Kensington, around 2:35 a.m. on Sunday. The victim, who police did not identify, had a gunshot wound to the head, police said. Another man, 31, was shot on the 4700 block of Penn Street, in Frankford around the same time, police said.

Florence police have requested information from the school district after reports surfaced that a high school student was restrained and bitten during a hazing incident that led to the suspension of four varsity baseball players. Florence Superintendent Donna Ambrosius said in a news release issued late Tuesday afternoon that the administration became aware of the incident March 22, launched an internal investigation, and took disciplinary action according to the school's code of conduct.

The mayor of tiny Marcus Hook, who just last year was a guest at the President's State of the Union address, is under investigation for allegedly shooting a gun in his house and giving alcohol to a 20-year-old whom he threatened to hold hostage. Potential charges against James D. Schiliro, 38, elected to a four-year term in 2009, include endangering another person and furnishing alcohol to a minor, according to court records. He has not yet been charged. Calls to Schiliro and Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan were not returned, and the lead investigator, Detective Robert T. Lythgoe, had no comment.

He was a guest at President's State of the Union address just a year ago. Now, he is under investigation for allegedly shooting a gun in his house and giving alcohol to a 20-year-old whom he threatened to hold hostage. Potential charges against James D. Schiliro, 38, include endangering another person and furnishing alcohol to a minor, according to court records. He has not yet been charged. Calls to Schiliro and Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan were not returned, and the lead investigator, Detective Robert T. Lythgoe, had no comment.

JIM GIVENS and his 10-year-old daughter, Sarah, were at home Saturday night - giving investigators details about how a hit-and-run driver plowed into her two days earlier - when the phone rang. Sarah's sister, Kylie, 14, had just been struck by yet another hit-and-run driver. "Two daughters in two days. I just couldn't believe it. It's crazy," Givens said Sunday afternoon, sitting next to Sarah, who had her right leg in a purple cast propped up on a pillow. Her tibia was fractured in two places and her hips are bruised - injuries that will keep Sarah, a figure skater, off the ice for about two months.

WASHINGTON - Two years after the nuclear crisis in Japan, the top U.S. regulator says American nuclear power plants are safer than ever, though not trouble-free. A watchdog group calls that assessment overly rosy. "The performance is quite good," Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Allison Macfarlane said in an interview. All but five of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors were performing at acceptable safety levels at the end of 2012, Macfarlane said, citing a recent NRC report.