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December 10, 2012
4 The Eagles have won a team-record four games this season by one or two points. 3 Rookie defensive tackle Fletcher Cox has three sacks in the last five games and four this season. 2 The Eagles had just two penalties for 13 yards on Sunday. 271 Damaris Johnson's 271 punt-return yards are second all-time for Eagles rookies. DeSean Jackson had 440 in 2008.
SPORTS
December 10, 2012 | By Rick O, Inquirer Columnist
As a wide receiver and kick returner, Coatesville's Chris Jones, a breakaway threat on every touch, has regularly wowed spectators. But despite his impact for the Red Raiders and eye-catching statistics, the 5-foot-11, 165-pound senior has not drawn a similar reaction from college recruiters. "I'm surprised I'm not getting much interest," he said. "But with the recruiting process, you just never know. It's tricky. " Villanova head coach Andy Talley and top assistant Mark Ferrante were at Coatesville last week to touch base with Jones and senior quarterback Emmett Hunt.
NEWS
December 10, 2012 | By John P. Martin, Inquirer Staff Writer
When a Delaware County nursing home owned by Leland Beloff, the ex-convict and former Philadelphia city councilman, asked the state for a $1.5 million grant in 2006, the money was supposed to address a pressing need for senior housing in the community. The facility, Harlee Manor, got $1 million and used it to replace 53 traditional nursing-home beds with 17 personal suites. State auditors have since concluded that the home, as a private for-profit entity, should never have been eligible for the funds.
NEWS
November 25, 2012 | By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Ten months into 2012, the number of suspected suicides by active-duty soldiers has surpassed last year's total, even as the Pentagon struggles to stem the problem. According to the Army, there were 20 possible suicides in October, bringing the total for the year to 166 - one more than the total for 2011. The 20 figure for October was up from 15 in September. U.S. Army officials have been worried about the pace of suicides this year and were concerned the numbers would surge higher than last year despite efforts to increase programs and outreach.
SPORTS
November 19, 2012 | By Jeff McLane, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
It began as a social experiment. It will likely end as a failed football one. It's hard to remember it now after the many games, the highs and (increasing) lows, but Michael Vick was originally brought to the Eagles as a potential transformational figure, or at least that's how owner Jeffrey Lurie put it. "Could this man," Lurie said on Aug. 11, 2009, "become an agent for change?" Andy Reid wanted to help Vick, in light of the attempts by one of his sons to rebuild his life post-incarceration, but the coach was primarily motivated by signing a gifted athlete for so very little.
SPORTS
November 19, 2012
Where else would the kind of offensive display that occurred Sunday in Houston happen but in the Lone Star State? The 9-1 Texans had their hands full with the plucky 1-9 Jacksonville Jaguars, and the sole reason was the firepower both teams brought to bear. Consider: Houston's Matt Schaub passed for 527 yards to tie former Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon for the second-most passing yards in an NFL game. Norm Van Brocklin holds the record with 554 yards for the Los Angeles Rams in 1951.
SPORTS
November 19, 2012
  7 Average yards per rush for Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III.   3 Average yards per rush for Eagles star running back LeSean McCoy.   158.3 Perfect passer rating for Griffin. The rating for Eagles QB Nick Foles was 40.5.   7 Misses from Foles to DeSean Jackson. The wide receiver was targeted for nine passes but caught just two.   6 Losses in a row for the Eagles, their worst streak since 1994.   7 The Eagles ended that 1994 season with seven losses in a row.   8 The victory ended the Redskins' eight-game losing streak against rookie quarterbacks that began in 2006.
NEWS
November 9, 2012
THIS YEAR marks the golden anniversary of the James Bond movie franchise, the longest-running continuous series in the history of cinema. Here's the complete roster of movies and important component parts, from Honey Ryder to Strawberry Fields. Dr. No (1962). An obscure actor named Sean Connery, former body builder and soccer player, gets the lead in the first film adaptation of Ian Fleming's spy novel series, made for less than $1 million. It went on to gross the then-considerable sum of $60 million and launch a franchise.
NEWS
November 1, 2012 | By Peter Mucha, Inquirer Staff Writer
As of late afternoon, Peco still had 200,000 customers left to reconnect - more than got knocked off line by a wicked line of thunderstorms in July. But the number of restorations following the heartless havoc of Hurricane Sandy has already shattered the record. About 650,000 homes and businesses who lost power have it again, far exceeding the tally after a 1994 ice storm caused 520,000 outages. Count the three nearest South Jersey counties, and suburban Pennsylvania customers of two other utilities, and the cumulative outage total for the eight-county area was roughly 1 million.
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