Night Manager

About 14 years ago, when he was 50 years old, Chandrakant Patel brought his family to America from his native Bombay, India. "He wanted better prospects, a better life," said his brother-in-law Prakash Patel. He apparently found it, working steadily, raising four children, and enjoying seven grandchildren. That life ended abruptly Thursday evening at the Dunkin' Donuts on Route 202 in Upper Merion Township, where Patel, the night manager, had worked for the last six years.

A part-time bartender at the popular McFadden's Restaurant & Saloon in Northern Liberties has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the restaurant has deliberately discouraged nonwhite customers. Court documents quote a text message by the bar's general manager as telling a shift supervisor to cease a weeknight promotion that brought in African American customers. "We don't want black people we are a white bar!" the manager wrote in October, the lawsuit alleges. McFadden's parent company, East Coast Saloons L.L.C.

10 tonight CHANNEL 10 After the night manager tells the group that someone will be "checking out," a taxi arrives with instructions to take Janet (Daisy Betts) and the guest of her choice. Left behind, Tori (Kate Lang Johnson, right) makes a plea to the camera to be set free.

The night manager of a small motel in the city's Feltonville section that recently changed hands and, according to one neighbor, "really cleaned itself up," was found stabbed to death yesterday in a first-floor room of the motel, police said. Barbara Schwartzman, 45, who lived at the motel, had been stabbed repeatedly in the face, neck and chest, according to police. A resident of the motel - whom, according to neighbors, Schwartzman looked after like a son - was charged with murder in the slaying.

A kitchen worker at a Montgomery County restaurant who tried to rape the night manager during a three-hour ordeal early yesterday went home to his apartment and killed himself when he was confronted by police, authorities said. David Stowers, 27, fired a single shot from a 12-gauge shotgun into his head about 8:45 a.m. during a standoff with police officers who had surrounded his apartment in the 1200 block of Allentown Road, Towamencin Township, according to police and investigators with the Montgomery County coroner's office.

A waitress-customer dispute at Littleton's Diner in the city's West Oak Lane section escalated yesterday into gunplay when a friend of a waitress shot the night manager in both legs, police said. The night manager, Howard Sowell, 60, of Elkins Park, was in stable condition last night at Temple University Hospital. Police said they were seeking the waitress, whose first name is Natasha, and a male companion, possibly her boyfriend. The dispute started around 6:30 a.m. with the kind of disagreement that normally provokes nothing worse than a skimpy tip, Police Lt. Ron Hetzel said.

The night manager of a Center City adult bookstore shot and seriously wounded a holdup man early yesterday morning during a robbery inside the store, police said. The shooting occurred about 5:25 a.m. at the Book Bin II in the 1900 block of Market Street after a man identified as Matthew Sanders, 25, of the 1800 block of Morris Street in South Philadelphia, entered and announced a holdup, detectives said. Pointing a gun that was later determined to fire only blanks, Sanders demanded the store's money from manager Bobby Lee Nesbitt, 35, detectives said.

A lone gunman made off with an estimated $10,000 in cash late Sunday from the Genuardi's Family Market at the Shops at Flowers Mill, police said. Sgt. Ken Mellus of the Middletown Township Police said the gunman entered the supermarket at 10:15 p.m. and walked around for several minutes before going to the customer service counter under the guise of reporting a lost bracelet. While speaking to the night manager, Mellus said, the man pulled a dark-colored automatic pistol and told the manager, "Take me to the money.

Police yesterday obtained an arrest warrant for a North Philadelphia man in connection with last week's shooting of two employees of the Rib-It restaurant in Center City following a dispute over a bottle of wine. Police were searching for Troy Bailey, 25, of the 3000 block of North Stillman Street, on two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of reckless endangerment and violating the uniform firearms act. Police said one of the shooting victims picked Bailey's photograph out of a photo spread earlier this week.

An official-looking piece of mail arrived at Erik's Deli in a Chicago suburb the other day. Matt Mueller, the manager, opened the envelope and found some forms that the state of Illinois wanted him to fill out. They concerned a young man named Anthony, who used to be a busboy at the deli. Anthony was out of work and wanted the state to give him unemployment compensation. Mueller sat down and remembered what he knew about Anthony. In the beginning, Anthony had been a reasonably competent busboy.

A part-time bartender at the popular McFadden's Restaurant & Saloon in Northern Liberties has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the restaurant has deliberately discouraged nonwhite customers. Court documents quote a text message by the bar's general manager as telling a shift supervisor to cease a weeknight promotion that brought in African American customers. "We don't want black people we are a white bar!" the manager wrote in October, the lawsuit alleges. McFadden's parent company, East Coast Saloons L.L.C.

10 tonight CHANNEL 10 After the night manager tells the group that someone will be "checking out," a taxi arrives with instructions to take Janet (Daisy Betts) and the guest of her choice. Left behind, Tori (Kate Lang Johnson, right) makes a plea to the camera to be set free.

Pete Rose bet on the Cincinnati Reds "every night" when he managed them, and despite his lifetime ban because of gambling, he would like another chance in a major-league dugout. "I bet on my team every night," Rose said yesterday in an interview on ESPN Radio. "I didn't bet on my team four nights a week. So I wasn't sending a signal out to the people that I'm not going to use my closer on Friday night or Saturday night. I was wrong. " Rose said in his 2004 book that he gambled on his team in the late 1980s, after denying for 15 years that he bet on baseball at all. Major-league rules forbid any sort of wagering on the sport.

Describing him as a cowardly killer devoid of humanity, a Delaware County judge yesterday sentenced Kareem Bahiy to life in prison without parole for the 2001 slaying of a 25-year-old CVS night manager. Bahiy, 23, a chronic drinker and drug abuser whose criminal history dates to his mid-teens, had been convicted of shooting John DiOstilio in the chest during the early-morning attempted robbery of the Baltimore Pike store in Springfield Township. Judge Frank T. Hazel said that in his 21 years on the bench, he could recall two defendants whom he searched for a "flicker of humanity" and found nothing.

Kareem Bahiy, the gunman who said that he saw fear in the eyes of CVS night manager John DiOstilio before he pulled the trigger in a fatal robbery, was convicted last night of second-degree murder. The jury, which deliberated about three hours, had heard the medical director at the Delaware County prison recount Bahiy's statements about the last seconds of DiOstilio's life at the 24-hour CVS store in Springfield, Delaware County. Bahiy, 23, told her that he looked in DiOstilio's eyes as he held a gun on him in the early-morning hours of June 5, 2001.

A waitress-customer dispute at Littleton's Diner in the city's West Oak Lane section escalated yesterday into gunplay when a friend of a waitress shot the night manager in both legs, police said. The night manager, Howard Sowell, 60, of Elkins Park, was in stable condition last night at Temple University Hospital. Police said they were seeking the waitress, whose first name is Natasha, and a male companion, possibly her boyfriend. The dispute started around 6:30 a.m. with the kind of disagreement that normally provokes nothing worse than a skimpy tip, Police Lt. Ron Hetzel said.

Camelback has been good to Kenneth Kistler and, in turn, Kistler has treated it well, never taking advantage of it. He has been on the slopes for 35 winters now. He's seen the place change from what was basically a place for a few friends to make a little money while indulging a passion for skiing to what is now the largest ski area in the Poconos. He started as an assistant compressor man, freezing in the darkness while making sure the high-pressure snowmaking equipment was working right.

A lone gunman made off with an estimated $10,000 in cash late Sunday from the Genuardi's Family Market at the Shops at Flowers Mill, police said. Sgt. Ken Mellus of the Middletown Township Police said the gunman entered the supermarket at 10:15 p.m. and walked around for several minutes before going to the customer service counter under the guise of reporting a lost bracelet. While speaking to the night manager, Mellus said, the man pulled a dark-colored automatic pistol and told the manager, "Take me to the money.

The robber killed a Dunkin' Donuts manager for less than $200, then served customers from behind the counter, police said. Now, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office has identified a prime suspect in the Nov. 6 killing in Upper Merion. At a news conference in Norristown, District Attorney Michael D. Marino asked for the public's help yesterday in finding Christopher Wade Hammond, who turned 23 yesterday. Hammond, of Bryn Mawr, who was described by police as a heroin addict, is wanted for questioning in the slashing death of Chandrakant Patel, the night manager of the Dunkin' Donuts at 130 W. DeKalb Pike.

About 14 years ago, when he was 50 years old, Chandrakant Patel brought his family to America from his native Bombay, India. "He wanted better prospects, a better life," said his brother-in-law Prakash Patel. He apparently found it, working steadily, raising four children, and enjoying seven grandchildren. That life ended abruptly Thursday evening at the Dunkin' Donuts on Route 202 in Upper Merion Township, where Patel, the night manager, had worked for the last six years.