Officer

The Underlying Logic of the Office By Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan Twelve. 320 pp. $26.99 Reviewed by Jane Von Bergen Delta Air Lines president Edward H. Bastian had good news for analysts gathered for a recent industry conference sponsored by JPMorgan. The airline, he told them, had a profitable quarter, the first in a decade. Why? In part because of savings from an oil refinery in Delaware County it bought from Conoco Phillips in 2012. An oil refinery? What's an airline doing running an oil refinery?

Thursday night saw both the season finale of Fox's American Idol and the final episode of the long-running NBC comedy The Office. One was sedate; the other was a tearjerker. Candice Glover was crowned the 12th winner of Idol . The 23-year-old from St. Helena Island, S.C., may have cinched the win with her final competitive performance, a stirring reprise of Ben E. King's "I (Who Have Nothing). " Glover's win over Texas country singer Kree Harrison was one of the most subdued in the history of the Fox series.

This time the painting was Monet's The Japanese Footbridge , an impressionist masterpiece depicting lush gardens and a lily pond. Ronald Sirianni of the Philadelphia Police Crime Scene Unit closed his eyes as instructed and concentrated as other officers fired off details: "Rust-colored water, falling foliage, a weeping willow-type tree . . . " With that, Sirianni opened his eyes and, though he had never seen the painting, selected it...

As part of a national salute to slain law enforcement officers, President Obama paid tribute Wednesday to Plymouth Township Officer Bradley Fox, who was killed in September. Fox was one of four officers singled out by the president during the National Peace Officers Memorial Service at the Capitol honoring those killed in the line of duty. "The brave officers we gather to remember today devoted themselves so fully to others - to serve and to protect others - that in the process they were willing to give their lives.

A police officer and a 21-year-old man were wounded in a shooting during a struggle early Tuesday in Delanco. Patrolman Francisco Ambrifi, 40, responded to a 911 call from a resident of the 400 block of Delaware Avenue about a man causing a disturbance on the street shortly before 4 a.m. The officer encountered a man who was "behaving in a disorderly fashion" and who "failed to comply with officer's orders," and a struggle followed. Ambrifi fired his gun, striking the victim more than once, Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi and Delanco Police Chief Jesse DeSanto said in a statement.

* THE OFFICE RETROSPECT. 8 p.m., NBC 10. * THE OFFICE finale. 9 to 10:15 p.m., NBC 10. WHEN NBC's "The Office" signs off tonight, Ardmore's Kate Flannery will be leaving her longest job ever - nine seasons as Meredith Palmer, "Office" alcoholic and all-'round good-time girl. Flannery, a comedian whose education at Archbishop John Carroll High School and University of the Arts no doubt prepared her for anything, gave us an exit interview. Here - with some condensing - is how it went: Is this your only office job?

Last week and total box office in millions. Weeks    Per    Rank/Title/Studio Last Week   Total    Out   Location    1. Iron Man 3 (Disney) $72.5   $284.9   2   $17,053    2. Great Gatsby (Warner Bros.) 50.1   50.1   1   14,169    3. Pain and Gain (Paramount) 5.0   41.6   3   1,514    4. Peeples (LionsGate) 4.6   4.6   1   2,259    5. 42 (Warner Bros.) 4.6   84.7   5   1,566    6. Oblivion (Universal)

WASHINGTON - President Obama on Saturday praised the nation's police officers for everyday acts of courage, saying they often rush into danger to do "some really tough stuff. " In a White House ceremony honoring some of the bravest, he said America need look no further than the Boston Marathon bombings to know what police are made of: "Police officers . . . running towards explosions, not knowing if there was something more on the way. Law enforcement from different agencies in different parts of the country working together as one united team to identify suspects and bring them to justice.

Philadelphia and Delaware County detectives, joined by at least one FBI computer specialist, raided Colwyn Borough Hall on Thursday in an investigation of a city officer who was hired to run the tiny borough's police department while still on active duty in Philadelphia. Colwyn Mayor Daniel Rutland said the three law enforcement agencies were involved in the search of the borough hall, the police department, and the office of Rochelle Bilal, the borough's new part-time director of public safety.

A Northamption Township police officer acted properly when he exchanged gunfire and killed an armed man who earlier had murdered his former wife, Bucks County authorities announced Friday. Northampton Township Officer Timothy Friel was trapped in his seatbelt when he returned fire with his non-shooting hand and killing Kenneth Philipp, who had earlier fatally wounded his ex-wife. Friel received minor injuries in the April 18th exchange. Friel "stood fast, he did not retreat around the car, he sheltered and returned fire," said District Attorney David Heckler.