Partners

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie married Philadelphia resident Tina Lai in a private ceremony this weekend. Lurie, 61, announced last July that he and Christina Weiss Lurie were getting divorced after 20 years of marriage. Lai will have no official role in the Eagles organization. The wedding was attended by family and close friends. "I am happy and excited as Tina and I begin our lives together," Lurie said in a statement. Lai, 39, is from a family that owns restaurants in Philadelphia, including the Vietnam Restaurant in Chinatown and the Vietnam Cafe in University City.

The Llanerch Country Club pair of John Cooper Jr. and Ben Lesniak shared the halfway lead with Russ Davis of Cape May National and Mickey Sokalski of Philmont at 6-under-par 66 in the $9,000, 36-hole Philadelphia PGA Better-Ball-of-Partners tournament yesterday at Pocono Farms Country Club in Tobyhanna, Pa. The two pairs lead three others by 1 stroke going into today's final 18 holes.

In 1971, partners Dom DiCicco Sr. and Joe Ostroski set a doubles record in the Greater Philadelphia Bowling Association championships when they combined for a 1,421 score. The 54th renewal of the tournament begins Saturday at the Thunderbird, Willow Grove and Devon Lanes, and the record-holding duo will be back. But this time they'll have different partners. DiCicco, 53, has decided to pair with his son, Dom Jr., leaving Ostroski, 76, to team with a friend, Mark Daddazio.

Tournament director Fred Christman and Wade Hersperger won the Better-Ball- of-Partners' Championship of the Golf Association of Philadelphia yesterday at Green Valley Country Club by 2 strokes. They birdied five holes and shot a 4-under-par 33-34-67. Defending champions Fran Nixon and Fran Donohue of Sandy Run tied for sixth place at 71.

The 177 partners at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, the city's largest and the nation's seventh largest law firm, earned $250,000 each in profits during 1986, the highest of any Philadelphia law firm, according to a survey released by The American Lawyer, a publication that reports on the legal profession. However, the amount disbursed in profits to Morgan Lewis' partners, only placed them in a tie for 56th place among the nation's top 99 law firms. The 41 partners at the New York law firm of Wacthell Lipton Rosen & Katz topped the charts, with each partner taking $1.4 million in profits out of the firm's net earnings, the New York-based publication said.

WILMINGTON - If Philadelphia has a second casino built, SugarHouse Casino could see its revenue drop by 24 percent, a gaming consultant testified in Chancery Court on Thursday. Because of shifts in the competitive local market for gaming, the owners of SugarHouse would be prudent to scale back their expansion plans, said Steven Rittvo, president of Innovation Group, a casino advisory firm. In 2009, when SugarHouse broke ground on Delaware Avenue in Fishtown, the goal was to have expanded the size and scope of the casino by now, including doubling the number of slots to 3,000 and adding a 10-story parking garage.

*  PARTNERS . 8:30 p.m. Monday, CBS 3. THERE'S A MOMENT in the Monday premiere of CBS' "Partners" that pretty much sums up my problem with the show. Louis (Michael Urie) is with his boyfriend, Wyatt (Brandon Routh) - who is a nurse and wonders why Louis keeps telling everyone he's a doctor - is startled to find out it really bothers Louis that Wyatt is really a nurse. "I just thought it was part of your shtick," says Wyatt. "Sweetheart, I am my shtick," replies Louis.

City Councilman James Kenney is to introduce legislation Thursday that would give a tax credit to employers who provide health-care benefits to same-sex partners, saying his bill would make Philadelphia, already a popular city for gays and lesbians to live, even more so. "A lot of changes we are making will make Philadelphia more attractive to LGBT people and make them want to settle here," Kenney said. "They are good job creators, good taxpayers, and good employees. " His legislation also would guarantee partners of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people the right to visit their loved ones in hospitals and make medical decisions for them.

Partners at LaBrum & Doak voted yesterday to close the 93-year-old Center City law firm by August. The decision to dissolve the firm came after they failed to agree on a reorganization strategy. The firm has 66 lawyers and 100 support staff members. "The decision does not surprise me . . . unfortunately," said Robert Denney, president of Robert Denney Associates Inc., a law firm consulting company in Wayne. "Some of the partners in the firm realized the need to focus on other areas of law [besides maritime and insurance defense]

Jim Young , raised in Apple Computer's hometown of Cupertino, Calif., developed the notoriously successful face-and-body comparison-voting site HotOrNot.com back in pre- Facebook days, while he was warming up for his doctoral dissertation at Berkeley. Cheyenne Ehrlich , raised in a meditation center, developed ClickTheButton.com , a PayPal predecessor, while he was an undergraduate at Vassar, and went on to help build firms in Silicon Valley and East Asia, from his home on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

Question: My husband and I are newlyweds. He had a long-term relationship with a woman who turned out to be married. When they started dating, she lied about it. He eventually found out but, by that point, had developed strong feelings for her and did not end their relationship. They have remained in constant contact over an 11-year period, with occasional weekends together (she lives in another state). She always stayed with the husband, claiming she was "staying for the children" - who, by the way, are adults!

SOME OF state Rep. Bill Keller's closest associates will gather Wednesday in federal court. It won't be a happy reunion. Mark Olkowski, Keller's longtime business partner, is scheduled to change his not-guilty plea after being indicted Jan. 29 on charges of filing false personal and business income taxes along with improperly collecting unemployment. Lorraine DiSpaldo, Keller's former chief of staff, is also scheduled to change her not-guilty plea after being indicted on Sept.

La Comunidad Hispana, the nonprofit health-care and legal-aid clinic in Kennett Square, wanted to reach out to Hispanics beyond Chester County. The Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia wanted to be known better to the folks served by La Comunidad, those beyond the city. "The consulate wanted to partner with us because we understand the population we serve, the same population they serve," La Comunidad president and CEO Margarita Queralt Mirkil said in an interview. So on Monday, a nurse from La Comunidad will begin the clinic's monthly presence at the consulate office in the Bourse Building on the east side of Independence Mall.

City Hall blossomed with Philadelphia pride Wednesday as elementary school students and civic leaders celebrated the 118th birthday of the city's flag - a unifying symbol that Mayor Nutter acknowledged "sometimes goes unnoticed in our daily lives. " Brenda Exon, cofounder of the nonprofit advocacy group Partners for Civic Pride, gave a history lesson on the Philadelphia flag, which depicts the city seal on a gold-and-sky-blue background. She said her group was trying to establish March 27, Philadelphia Civic Flag Day, "as an important day on the Philadelphia calendar.

Keith J. Mastronardo, 24, of St. Petersburg, Fla., an Upper Merion native who was a partner in a skin-care start-up seen on reality TV, died Tuesday, March 19, in a motorcycle accident in Florida. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Mr. Mastronardo was riding a motorcycle east on Belleair Road in Largo when he swerved to avoid hitting an animal and was thrown off the bike. Police said Mr. Mastronardo was hit by a car driven by Jerome E. Mullarkey, 77, of Clearwater. Mr. Mastronardo died from his injuries at Largo Medical Center; the driver and a passenger were unhurt.

Archbishop Ryan High School in the Northeast and Holy Family University today unveiled a new partnership that includes a dual-credit program. Archbishop Ryan students who complete Holy Family courses offered on Ryan's campus on Academy Road will receive both high school and college credits for their work. "Today marks an historic moment in our school's 47-year history," Ryan's President Michael McCardle said at a signing ceremony carried live on the websites of both Ryan and Holy Family University.

The court-appointed receiver for an investment partnership has sued developer Brook Lenfest, former head of the group, saying he cheated the other partners in a land deal by not disclosing that the parcel was slated for a new Center City hotel. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Common Pleas Court, receiver Davin S. Lamm contends that Lenfest defrauded Mariner Chestnut Partners L.P., which included Lamm and Marc Wiser, when he sold the land on behalf of the partnership to himself at auction for an amount substantially lower than the half-acre parcel at Broad and Chestnut Streets was worth.

A Camden man admitted Wednesday that he killed his longtime partner, who wanted to end their relationship, authorities said. William W. White, 60, who pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in Superior Court, told Judge Frederick Schuck that he beat Alma Reyes Brito, 49, with a gun and choked her after they argued in her home in June 2012, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. Brito was killed between the night of June 3 and 11 a.m. June 4, when a relative found her body.

By Mark Brzezinski and Jonas Hafstrom I nnovative - entrepreneurial - audacious - these words apply to this region just as much today as they did 375 years ago. On an early spring day in March 1638, Swedish and Finnish settlers arrived near present-day Wilmington, Del., and established the tiny settlement of New Sweden. Led by Capt. Peter Minuit, who a decade earlier had purchased from the Dutch what we now call Manhattan, these early pioneers braved a dangerous voyage across the Atlantic to found a colony that included parts of what are now Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

A WEST Conshohocken steelworker has sued his employer and the board of trustees of the Steelworkers Health and Welfare Fund for denying insurance coverage to the his husband. The same-sex couple filed the suit in federal court Monday against the board and ArcelorMittal USA, a Chicago-based company that operates the Conshohocken steel mill where Bryce Ginther works as an industrial electrician. Ginther, 54, married his partner of seven years, Kit Kineef, on May 15 in New York.