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University City High's Steve Kane should have gone home yesterday with a basketball under his arm. After all, how often does a high school coach win his 300th game? "My players told me to take it, but I told them we're having pretty good luck with that ball," Kane said. "I told them we'll use it for the rest of the season. Then I'll get the kids to autograph it. Then I'll take it home and put it in a Lucite case right above the ball we used to win the Public League championship [in 1995]

A Sharon Hill Borough police sergeant who Mayor Tony Raffaele had suspended from the force primarily because he allegedly had investigated the mayor has been reinstated by the Borough Council. Sgt. Raymond Kane was ordered returned to duty with back pay by a 5-0 vote at a special council meeting Thursday night with about 100 residents in attendance. Council President Charles Hollenden and council member Dominic Corvaia did not vote because they testified Thursday. Raffaele also testified, saying that he suspended Kane based on allegations that Kane had conducted a council-initiated investigation of him. The one-month suspension was made public at the Oct. 8 council meeting when it was disclosed that Raffaele had suspended Kane at 4 p.m. Oct. 7 but did not inform the council of the matter until late in the day Oct. 8, according to solicitor Richard C. Tinucci.

Police found the wounded dog July 24 on the grounds of Doylestown Country Club, alive but suffering. "Kane," a 10-year-old American bulldog, had been shot at least 32 times with a .22-caliber pellet gun. Scattered on the ground near the animal were several hot dogs that appeared to have been injected with insecticide. The dog was euthanized shortly afterward. On Tuesday, Kane's owner - the former superintendent of the country club's golf course - was arraigned on animal-cruelty charges.

An off-duty Philadelphia police officer - who pleaded guilty to driving drunk and injuring two state troopers and a tow-truck driver when he crashed into their stopped vehicles on the shoulder of I-95 - was sentenced Wednesday to 111/2 to 23 months in prison. Matthew Sharkey, 25, turned and apologized to Troopers Matthew Sheeran and Michael Sadowski and tow-truck driver Will Kane. Then he added: "Sorry doesn't cut it at all. " Sharkey, who joined the police force in 2007 and was fired after the Feb. 20, 2010, crash, pleaded guilty in June to aggravated assault by vehicle while driving intoxicated and related charges.

A witness who had been scheduled to testify yesterday for the prosecution about lawyer Robert B. Burke backed out after reporting that he received a telephone threat about his mother early Wednesday, an FBI agent told a federal magistrate. FBI Agent Richard T. Kane said the witness, Anthony Cimino, told detectives that the caller said it was "a shame he had not had an opportunity to visit his mother" and made some reference to "finding his mother floating in her pool. " Kane said Cimino, of Fort Washington, considered the call a threat.

Since his arrest in February, Edward P. Nemchik had told authorities that he shot Ricky Lynn Schandelmeier in self-defense. In Bucks County Court on Wednesday, Nemchik told Judge Michael J. Cane what really happened: he shot Schandelmeier, who was unarmed, then planted the gun in his hand. "I made a mistake and tried to cover it up," Nemchik, 33, told the court. "If I told the truth, I would have been a lot better off. " Kane sentenced Nemchik to eight to 20 years in prison for the third-degree murder charge he pleaded guilty to Monday.

Is Chicago Mayor Tom Kane, the titular character in Starz's addictive new political drama, Boss , a good man? Is he a bad man? An evil man? Created and written by Farhad Safinia, Boss is a compeling, intimate, behind-the-scenes look at a larger-than-life big-city mayor and how he, his aides, his cronies, and his political enemies run their town. Happily, the show stays out of partisan politics - it never mentions party names or affiliations. Boss ' first of eight episodes premiered Friday (and is available through Video on Demand)

Is Chicago Mayor Tom Kane, the titular character in Starz's addictive new political drama, Boss , a good man? Is he a bad man? An evil man? Created and written by Farhad Safinia, Boss is a compelling, intimate behind-the-scenes look at a larger-than-life big-city mayor and how he, his aides, his cronies and his political enemies run their town. Happily, the show stays out of partisan politics - it never mentions party names or affiliations. Boss ' first of eight episodes premiered Friday (and is available through Video On Demand)

Municipal Court Judge Charles Rand has set aside the drunken-driving convictions of 11 of 12 motorists who were robbed by the arresting officer. The action came at a hearing in Oaklyn Municipal Court on May 7, after the state Attorney General's Office requested new trials be granted. The motorists were robbed of cash between August 1989 and May 1991 by former Oaklyn Police Officer Robert Kane, who has admitted to the thefts. Richard Carley, deputy director of the state's Division of Criminal Justice, said all of the drivers had been arrested by Kane while he was under investigation by the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.

What began as a routine Sharon Hill Borough Council meeting ended in a political inferno when it was announced that Mayor Anthony Raffaele had suspended a police sergeant for what he said was a council-initiated police investigation of his character. At the Thursday night meeting, the last council meeting before the November elections, Raffaele blasted the council for "ridiculing" him and using the police department to investigate him. "I've been called filthy names, and I've been threatened by council members," Raffaele said, "I've been investigated by this police department and council.

PATRICK MURPHY found himself in the wrong race at the wrong time. The former Bucks County congressman ran a political campaign for a job that voters apparently believe is better suited to a nonpolitician. His political experience didn't help. His political polish didn't help. And political support from pols such as Ed Rendell and Mayor Nutter didn't help. Running with a background in Congress and traditional political backing did not play at a time when so many are fed up with Congress and traditional politics.

WAY BACK in the '80s, Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox declared musically that "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves. " If they meant that a wealthy woman can pump a lot of family money into her own campaign and win a major statewide primary in the traditional no-woman's land of Pennsylvania, then Kathleen Kane has indeed come a long way, baby. In a close race for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, Kane - a former Lackawanna County prosecutor - defeated former Bucks County U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, supported by Mayor Nutter and recent ex-Gov.

HARRISBURG - Former Lackawanna County prosecutor Kathleen Kane declared victory Tuesday night in her hard-fought battle for the Democratic nomination for attorney general over former Congressman Patrick Murphy of Bucks County. Kane, 45, of Clarks Summit, who spent 13 years as an assistant district attorney, edged out Murphy to become the first woman of either party nominated to run for Pennsylvania attorney general. She will face Republican District Attorney David Freed of Cumberland County, who ran unopposed, in November.

Next week's primary gives voters a chance to weigh in on 15 contested state House races, a few special elections, a race for auditor general, and a battle for the Democratic candidacy for attorney general. It's not a long list of contests, but the Daily News focused on one big race for the sole endorsement we'll be offering this primary season: The race for attorney general. The interest in this race is due to the two strong Democratic candidates who could ultimately break the stranglehold Republicans have typically held on this office.

Calling her a woman with a "steel spine and a caring heart," former President Bill Clinton rallied a crowd Thursday in Willow Grove in support of Kathleen Kane's bid to become the Democratic nominee for attorney general. Three days earlier, President Obama's top campaign adviser, David Axelrod, said of her rival, Patrick Murphy: "I don't think Barack Obama has had a better friend in politics. " As the two Democrats vying to become the state's top prosecutor enter the final stretch before April 24's primary, both are drawing high-wattage backing and finding their past allegiances in another hotly contested party fight four years ago now stand to help or hurt them.

If Pennsylvania Democrats ever hope to elect a state attorney general, this would be the year, with two well-qualified candidates seeking the party's nomination in the April 24 primary. Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy of Bucks County and Kathleen Kane, a former Lackawanna County assistant district attorney, offer impressive legal resumes, and possess the skill and passion to excel as the state's top law-enforcement official. The winner will face the unopposed Republican, Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed.

Regional Democrats may be inclined to skip the polls April 24, given the paucity of contested primary races and so much focused on the GOP presidential candidates, but that would be a mistake. Republicans own the store in Harrisburg, and Tom Corbett, who ran on his attorney general record of prosecuting conniving legislators - always a crowd-pleaser - has turned out to be the most conservative governor in modern history. In 15 months, Corbett and the GOP-controlled legislature have taken a battering ram to basic civil rights.

James William Kane Jr., 85, of Bryn Mawr, a retired sales manager and decorated World War II veteran, died Saturday, Feb. 18, of complications from pneumonia at Bryn Mawr Hospital. A native of Chicago, Mr. Kane moved to the Overbrook section of Philadelphia with his family in 1939. He graduated from St. Joseph's Preparatory School in June 1944 and joined the Army in August. In January 1945, he landed in France with the 69th Infantry Division, and he was participating in combat by the end of February.

Larry Kane Journalist "We have hundreds of municipalities in three states. We have governors of states, township executive directors, county managers - and we have horrible purchasing options in this area. We need to get a conference immediately somewhere in this area, called by the governors, county executives and the mayor of Philadelphia to form an organization called A.P.A.: Area Purchasing Agency. "We've got millions of dollars of waste in government all through the area through antiquated purchasing procedures.

An off-duty Philadelphia police officer - who pleaded guilty to driving drunk and injuring two state troopers and a tow-truck driver when he crashed into their stopped vehicles on the shoulder of I-95 - was sentenced Wednesday to 111/2 to 23 months in prison. Matthew Sharkey, 25, turned and apologized to Troopers Matthew Sheeran and Michael Sadowski and tow-truck driver Will Kane. Then he added: "Sorry doesn't cut it at all. " Sharkey, who joined the police force in 2007 and was fired after the Feb. 20, 2010, crash, pleaded guilty in June to aggravated assault by vehicle while driving intoxicated and related charges.