Philadelphia

Police were investigating the death of a 26-year-old woman found Saturday in the bathroom of a Center City condo owned by high-profile criminal defense lawyer A. Charles Peruto Jr. A maintenance worker found the woman unresponsive just after 10 a.m. in the building at South 20th Street and Delancey Place, said Officer Tanya Little, a Philadelphia police spokeswoman. The woman, whose identity police did not immediately release, was pronounced dead shortly before 10:30. A police source identified the woman as Julia Law. Law described herself as working for the Peruto firm as a paralegal, according to her profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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.

There's a point Ervin Mears Jr. wants people to understand, and it's the reason he filed a federal lawsuit when his son was ousted from the high school track team: "Children have rights," Mears, 68, said, "just like any adult. " In this case, he said, it's the right to run. On May 6, Mawusimensah Mears, a sophomore at Sterling Regional High School in Camden County, was kicked off the team, the suit says. Eleven days later, his father sued in Camden, naming the coach, athletic director, principal, superintendent, and school board.

EYEWITNESS NEWS anchor Susan Barnett is leaving CBS 3 and the CW Philly. Barnett has been at CBS since 2006, anchoring the evening newscasts since 2008. She anchored the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. broadcasts on CBS, and the 10 p.m. broadcast at the CW Philly, along with co-anchor Chris May . Her contract expired in March. "I have decided to not renew my contract with the stations at this time. I am incredibly thankful for having been a part of the CBS Philly family, but I feel that this is the right decision at this time," Barnett said in a statement yesterday.

Chapter 1: Beau from Minnesota Monday, she had written. A date. His first in Philadelphia. Uff-da! That's what Beau Zabel said when he was excited. And Beau Zabel was beyond excited. He had been in Philadelphia 42 days and he was swooning in the newness. Like big-boy summer camp. None of it felt real yet. The Italian Market rowhouse with his roommate, Meg Guerreiro, and Kismet, her Maltese Yorkie. His soon-to-start student teaching program. His daily explorations with his Not for Tourists Guide to Philadelphia.

Merion Golf Club's East Course occupies its acreage so divinely that it is sometimes hard to believe the famed Haverford Township layout didn't look exactly that way at the Creation. Surely, perhaps on the day he rested and got the golf bug, God designed Cobbs Creek to wrap itself gracefully, like a gently clutching palm, around three sides of the picturesque 11th green. And in the beginning, there must have been that towering oak that looms above two front-nine fairways, a natural hazard as imposing as it is splendid.

I've got something to say. It won't take long Just as long as it took you to snatch everything away   One fourth of the body is the leg You have crippled us Cursing us to hobble all of our lives. I cannot run cross-country on just one leg.   Rip song off of our tongues to find songs are not Velcro but flesh Snap the bows of the violins in case the students could ever get the idea that music is alive Because then you would have blood on your hands.

It's still Frank's, thanks. But because of the quiet sale of the 95-year- old local institution to an Elizabeth, N.J., bottler, Frank's Beverages are no longer made in Philadelphia. Frank's sodas, including cream, birch beer and the legendary Black Cherry Wishniak, are being manufactured and bottled these days in North Jersey, at the plant of C&C Cola. The grandson and great-grandson of founder Jacob Frank sold the business in August to C&C, owned by a fellow independent bottler who'd been wooing them for some time.

STANDING IN line in the post office the other day, I was delighted at the response when two customers at the window were short of cash. Each time someone quickly supplied the 10 cents and 48 cents needed. And a lady asked an elderly woman (me) to go ahead of her in line! Did you know that on Nov. 26, Mayor Nutter participated in a reading from scripture in City Hall at the invitation of the American Bible Society? Indeed, the mayor read from Psalms and was followed by the president of the Westminster Theological Seminary and then by many others.

Friday's front page brought news about two of Philadelphia's genial, if quite different, old gentlemen - G. Stockton Strawbridge and Peter Camiel. Mr. Strawbidge, 77, the Grand Old Man of Market Street East, was receiving the Powell Award for his civic accomplishments; Mr. Camiel, the one-time boss of the city's Democratic Party (but who is somewhat more famous as the man who proved Frank Rizzo a liar), had died at 81. The easy thing is to talk about Mr. Strawbridge's grand and glorious achievements and contrast them with Mr. Camiel's amusing if venal activities in trying to make the world a better place for, among others, the state's beer distributors in whose behalf he labored ceaselessly while a state senator.

Things we learned from the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion: Philadelphia sports fans aren't the ogres nearly everyone imagines them to be, at least not the fans who showed up at Merion this week. They were, for the most part, positive, polite, and well-behaved. Even those who heckled, such as those targeting Sergio Garcia, didn't bring their "A" game. "The things they yell, they're very common," Garcia said Saturday. "They're not very creative. " Garcia won't be back anytime soon.

The Philadelphia Amateur begins Tuesday with 36-hole stroke-play qualifying at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square and St. Davids Golf Club in Wayne. A field of 133 will compete for 32 spots in match play, which will be at Aronimink. The championship will continue with two rounds of match play Wednesday and Thursday, and conclude with a 36-hole final Saturday. Two-time winner Michael Hyland of Little Mill leads a list of six former champions in the field. COLLEGES: Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel still has three years of eligibility at Texas A&M, but a tweet the quarterback sent out Sunday has some wondering how long he will stay.

Chapter 1: Beau from Minnesota Monday, she had written. A date. His first in Philadelphia. Uff-da! That's what Beau Zabel said when he was excited. And Beau Zabel was beyond excited. He had been in Philadelphia 42 days and he was swooning in the newness. Like big-boy summer camp. None of it felt real yet. The Italian Market rowhouse with his roommate, Meg Guerreiro, and Kismet, her Maltese Yorkie. His soon-to-start student teaching program. His daily explorations with his Not for Tourists Guide to Philadelphia.

On the Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Camden, the former Sears, Roebuck & Co. store is slowly coming down - but not without the eyes of city inspectors closely watching. Is the work area surrounded by a barricade? Is water available to wet down the dust? Is the appropriate equipment being used, and is it being operated safely? The inspectors visit the site daily, taking photos of the progress, said James Rizzo, construction expert in Camden's Department of Code Enforcement, Building Bureau.

Though there are no natural-gas wells near Southeastern Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia region will receive nearly $3.4 million of the $202.5 million collected last year from the state's Marcellus Shale impact fee. Philadelphia alone will get nearly $1.3 million from the fee imposed on "unconventional" wells drilled into deep shale formations, according to figures released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Four suburban counties will split about $2.1 million.

Philadelphia will receive nearly $1.3 million of the $202.5 million collected last year from the Marcellus Shale impact fee, according to figures released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Disbursements to counties and municipalities, which declined slightly from 2011 because the price of natural gas dropped, are based on a combination of population and well-drilling activity. Montgomery County will receive $673,000; Bucks County, $525,000; Delaware County, $469,000, and Chester County, $422,000.

Crazier things have made it, even made it big, in the American marketplace, but fungal furniture - furniture made from mushroom roots - may be a little too "out there" for most people. Yet "out there" - in the marketplace - is where Brian McClellan, 23, and Merjan Tara Sisman, 21, aspire to be with the mushroom chair and pendant lights they created for their senior project at Philadelphia University this year. "I hate mushrooms, sadly. The texture is too funky. But I love their growing capabilities," says McClellan, who graduated in May and is working part time as a bartender while he refines the design of his pendants.

A memorial service will be held Wednesday, June 12, for Samuel E. Line Jr., 89, of Newtown Square, a decorated World War II veteran and Bell Telephone executive who died Saturday, May 18. Mr. Line died of congestive heart failure at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Born in Harrisburg, Mr. Line was a graduate of John Harris High School, Harrisburg, and Harvard College, now Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in government in 1943. Mr. Line was a watch and division officer with the rank of lieutenant junior grade in the Navy.

Chances are you will see a sleepy Phil Mickelson playing his opening round Thursday morning at Merion. Mickelson returned home Monday to suburban San Diego to practice and to attend the eighth-grade graduation of his daughter Amanda on Wednesday. A spokesman for the four-time major champion said Mickelson was expected to leave Wednesday night on his private jet and arrive in Philadelphia at 4:15 a.m., less than three hours before his scheduled tee time.   USGA takes on slow play The normally staid and proper United States Golf Association has turned to the late Rodney Dangerfield, of all people, for the title of its new program designed to combat slow play among recreational golfers.

NATE WASHINGTON and his best pal, Bill Jones, were having a glass of wine one day and one of them said, "Well, what do we do next?" Nate had just gotten out of the Air Force and Bill the Navy, and they were at loose ends. "I know," one of them exclaimed. "Let's go to college. " That's how fateful, life-changing decisions are sometimes made. So Nate went to Temple and Bill went to Pittsburgh on the GI Bill. After graduating from Temple in 1957, Nate went to work for the city Recreation Department and advanced through the ranks to become the recreation commissioner in the '80s.