Kelley

Monday's 95th running of the Boston Marathon will offer another occasion to celebrate the most enduring performer in the history of the event, one who is refusing, once more, to act his age. John A. "The Elder" Kelley, an 83-year-old medical marvel, will start the 26-mile, 385-yard course between Hopkinton and downtown Boston for the 60th time. That's right, the 60th time, and what's all this fuss about Nolan Ryan's 24th season? "I don't know where the years have gone," Kelley said earlier this week, his running ruminations influenced in equal measure by Mickey Rooney and George Bush.

Months of speculation ended yesterday as the University of Pennyslvania announced a change in top leadership at its financially troubled health system, which includes the flagship Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Penn President Judith Rodin said in a statement that Dr. William N. Kelley was being replaced as dean of Penn's School of Medicine and chief executive of its medical center and health system. Taking over on an interim basis is Dr. Peter G. Traber, 44, a Johnstown, N.Y., native who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1977.

B.G. Kelley, head boys' basketball coach at Philadelphia's International Christian High School, has stepped down after five seasons. "The time was right," said Kelley, who compiled a 94-27 record during his tenure. "Basketball has always been one of my passions. I flat-out love basketball. "I enjoyed my time there and I enjoyed the kids. I hope I helped them become better players - and young men. " Kelley, a 1959 graduate of Roman Catholic and a 1965 Temple graduate, will continue to teach writing at the school.

South Carolina might want to face Florida again in the Southeastern Conference tournament. It's about the only league team the Gamecocks match up well against. Tre' Kelley scored 17 points, made three free throws in the final 26 seconds and had a key steal down the stretch that helped South Carolina upset the No. 7 Gators, 71-67, last night. The Gamecocks (12-10, 3-6) ended the second-longest home winning streak in the nation at 20 games and swept Florida for the first time since the 1997-98 season.

It was a dramatic case of reality trumping mobfather fiction. The Rev. Joseph J. Kelley, a 43-year-old Catholic priest, stepped to the witness box of federal court last month and vouched for his "distant cousin," reputed mobster Joey Merlino. Then Kelley, testifying that he knew the jailed Merlino was charged with drug trafficking and threats, offered to supervise Merlino personally if he were granted bail. Kelley's day in court on July 28 was both a rarity and a "personal decision" that needed no clearance from higher-ups, according to Cathy Rossi, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Kelley, 10, likes to line up her dolls on chairs and be a teacher. She'll tell them to sit up straight and do their numbers. Then they'll sing, with Kelley's voice the loudest of all: "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!" Her brother, Donelle, 11, also has favorite indoor activities. He likes listening to music on the radio, playing chess and checkers, and doing book reports and games on the computer. They're doing well in school. Kelley gets A's in special-education classes, on a fourth-grade level.

Normally, a $30 million penalty against your employer, and the ensuing rash of bad headlines, isn't the best the way to launch your campaign to get re-hired. But that scenario didn't seem to hurt Dr. William N. Kelley, dean of the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, who's just been re-upped for a new five-year stint. Penn president Judith Rodin - who had announced a review of Kelley after the whopping settlement over Medicare billing abuses at a Penn medical practice Kelley headed - told faculty members in a memo early this month that she and provost Stanley Chodorow have recommended the doctor win a new appointment.

City Councilwoman Jannie L. Blackwell yesterday lost a skirmish in state court in her fight to get fired aide Michael Youngblood returned to her Council staff. Commonwealth Court Judge James R. Kelley refused to vacate a stay of Common Pleas Court Judge Russell M. Nigro's ruling May 6, which said Blackwell was entitled to rehire the aide immediately. The stay went into effect when Council President John F. Street, who fired Youngblood in February 1993, citing the aide's criminal record, appealed Nigro's ruling to Commonwealth Court.

When Dr. William Nimmons Kelley took over as the head of the city's biggest and most prestigious medical center, he inherited a hospital that was hemorrhaging tens of millions of dollars a year. But within a year of being named chief executive officer of University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Health System, the hospital posted its first profit in years. And since then, the profits have multiplied. What changed? The billing system. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer in October 1990, Kelley gave much of the credit for the financial turnaround to a revamped accounting system that coordinated the expenses and billing of the medical center's biggest departments: The hospital, the medical school, and the private faculty practice, known as Clinical Practices.

Glenolden Borough Councilman Albert J. Kelley is proposing that storm sewers be installed on Charmont Avenue, between Elmwood and North Ridgeway Avenues, to help alleviate a storm-water drainage problem there. Kelley told council members at their caucus meeting Thursday night that he had received several complaints from residents of those streets about storm- water buildup in their yards because there is no drainage system. Kelley said he would direct borough engineer H. Gilroy Damon to study the feasibility and costs of installing a sewer line along one side of Charmont that would hook up to a drainage pipe on Elmwood.

John Patrick Kelley, 74, of Brigantine, N.J., a lawyer in Philadelphia for more than 45 years, died of throat cancer Tuesday, Feb. 21, at Chandler Hall Hospice in Newtown. In 1989, Mr. Kelley helped establish what is now the law firm of Kelley, Jasons, McGowan, Spinelli, Hanna & Reber in Center City, representing defendants in product liability and mass tort litigation. In recent years, he did pro bono work, primarily for the Catholic Church and clergy, and was of counsel to the firm.

LOS ANGELES - Mike Kelley, 57, described by colleagues as an "irresistible force" in contemporary art, has died, police said Wednesday. Mr. Kelley was found at his home Tuesday, an apparent suicide, South Pasadena Police Sgt. Robert Bartl said. There was no further information on the artist's death; an autopsy was pending. "Kelley's work in the 1980s was part of how one defined the Los Angeles arts scene. He had a remarkable ability to fuse distinction between fine and popular art in ways that managed to perturb our sense of decorum," said Stephanie Barron, senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A family friend, concerned about Mr. Kelley, went to his home and called 911, Bartl said.

Brian Kelley, 68, a veteran counterspy who broke a code on how Moscow communicated with its agents and was mistakenly hounded later by the FBI, died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack and was found Monday, his wife, Patricia, said. Mr. Kelley spent 20 years with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, doing counterintelligence work, until 1984, when he moved to the CIA. While working in the agency's counterintelligence office, Mr. Kelley figured out a method used by Moscow to secretly communicate with its agents.

BEING THE daughter of Italian immigrants, Philomena Coppola Kelley knew how to cook Italian food, of course. But was she also expected to be able to build a patio by hand? This remarkable woman could do both. Whether rolling out her own pasta or mixing cement, Philomena was the expert. In addition, she raised four children and put them all through college, helped raise six grandchildren, lifted her beautiful singing voice in a church choir and liked to test her luck at bingo and Atlantic City casinos.

Oprah is the alpha and omega of pop culture. She's a kingmaker. The gold standard of celebrity. She's also our mother confessor. Our soul mate. She helps us with the hard choices we must make over our jobs, lovers, and kids; our brand of religion and our faith in consumer goods. She's also a total stranger who guards her self behind a carefully crafted persona. The 56-year-old talk-show host is a blank slate, a mirror onto which we project our own expectations.

Declaring there was no obvious explanation for the crime, a judge yesterday sentenced a North Philadelphia teen to 23 1/2 to 47 years in prison for shooting a Philadelphia Housing Authority police officer with an assault rifle in attempt to steal his laptop computer and service weapon. Common Pleas Court Judge Gwendolyn N. Bright issued the sentence against Zahir Boddy-Johnson, 19, who shot PHA Officer Craig Kelley, 51, in the abdomen. "You were working. You're obviously intelligent," Bright said.

Philadelphia Housing Authority Police Officer Craig Kelley told a judge yesterday how being shot last year took away so much of what he loved - working the streets, manning the security booth inside the Queen Lane Apartments high rise, protecting the people inside. Still limited to desk duty at PHA headquarters, "shuffling papers, crunching numbers," he said that being shot by a teen with a military-style assault rifle has taken away "my persona," the cop he had been for 17 years.

After more than two days of deliberations, a Common Pleas Court jury yesterday found a North Philadelphia teen guilty of all charges in the shooting of a Philadelphia Housing Authority police officer with an assault-type rifle at a Germantown apartment building. Zahir Boddy-Johnson, 17, was convicted of attempted murder, aggravated assault, and weapons offenses in the Feb. 17, 2008, shooting of Officer Craig Kelley inside a security booth at the Queen Lane Apartments at Queen Lane and Pulaski Avenue.

A Philadelphia police detective testified yesterday that a teen accused of shooting a Philadelphia Housing Authority police officer confessed to him during questioning a few hours later. Detective Phillip Mangold testified that he asked Zahir Boddy-Johnson, 17, whether he shot Philadelphia Housing Authority Police Officer Craig Kelley with an assault rifle Feb. 17, 2008, inside the security booth at the Queen Lane Apartments at Queen Lane and Pulaski Avenue in Germantown. Mangold testified in Common Pleas Court that Boddy-Johnson answered, "I did. " Boddy-Johnson is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm on a public street.

The hunt for one of two girls reportedly abducted from Philadelphia by their mother ended yesterday when the mother and daughter were discovered in a shopping center near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tammy Kong-Kham, 35, and her daughter Kimberly, 8, were found near a shopping center in Tamarac, several miles outside Fort Lauderdale, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. The pair, who had lived in a squalid sand pit for weeks, were reported to be in good condition and were taken to the Sheriff's Office headquarters.