Sunglasses

DOVER, N.J. - Authorities said that a New Jersey man awaiting a court appearance for stealing sunglasses from a car stole a police chief's sunglasses from his car outside police headquarters. Police in Dover on Wednesday charged Zachary Mills, 20, with burglary of a motor vehicle and theft. Mills was scheduled for a court hearing on charges of stealing a debit card, a sweatshirt and sunglasses from a car in Rockaway on Tuesday. Detective Sgt. Richard Gonzalez told the Daily Record of Parsippany that an officer investigated after noticing a light on inside Dover Police Chief Harold Valentine's vehicle.

The judge said the subway robbery victim was "justified" in shooting to death a man who had stolen his $235 pair of designer sunglasses last year. "I think he reasonably believed he had to protect his life," said Common Pleas Judge Lisa A. Richette yesterday in acquitting Larry Collins, 26, of murder and manslaughter charges. "He had just been the victim of a crime, and I know the (shooting) victim was carrying a gun," she said. Because Collins, of Brown Street near 41st, did not have a license to carry the gun used to kill Antwine Murphy, 18, on Nov. 25, 1989, Richette found Collins guilty of a weapons offense.

Sunglasses. They aren't just for sun glare - or for summer - anymore. They're a fashion accessory. And they're everywhere. Think about it. Have you ever seen so many sunglasses around? Fashion models wear them strolling down the runway. Athletes wear them while giving interviews. Actors and actresses wear them in films. Joe Camel wears them on his billboards. Did you like the specs in "Waiting to Exhale"? Made by an Italian firm called Exotica. How about John Travolta's eyewear in "Broken Arrow"?

The fancy sunglasses would have to come off, snarled the kid who was pointing a toy gun as though it was real. But the teen sporting the $200 designer shades wouldn't hand them over. Not without a fight. So fighting is what it came to yesterday morning at Point Breeze Avenue and McClellan Street in South Philadelphia. Actually, police said, it was a duel. While the teen who wanted to steal the glasses had a toy gun, the boy who wore the glasses had a real gun. The toy gun wielder, Kareem Dandy, 16, of Ringgold Street near Morris, lost his life.

It seems obvious: sunglasses should protect your eyes from the sun. In reality, it's not quite that simple. Sunlight is harmful to the eyes, health experts agree, but they haven't reached a consensus on which of its components ought to be screened out. Everyone agrees that ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation should be screened out because it is a primary cause of age-related cataracts. More controversial are the roles of ultraviolet A (UVA), a longer wavelength of invisible radiation, and of blue light, the first wavelength in the visible spectrum (the rainbow of hues that makes up white light)

The popular principal at Christ the King Regional School in Haddonfield is accused of stealing an expensive pair of designer sunglasses after telling the store's clerk he worked for the FBI, authorities said. Yesterday, Cherry Hill police released details surrounding the criminal charges against Claudio Cerullo, 40, of Aston. He surrendered to police Tuesday and was placed on unpaid administrative leave Wednesday, authorities said. Cerullo was charged with theft, theft by deception, and impersonation of a public official.

Last winter when Dad's vision started to get increasingly cloudy and parking the car in the garage wasn't quite as precise as it used to be, he told me that he suspected he had cataracts. Indeed, he did. This spring before his 66th birthday, Dad had two cataract surgeries. Now he sees almost 20/20 - better than he had seen in 20 years. He purchased milder prescription glasses, even though he really needs them only for reading. He also bought sunglasses with UV protection, which will protect his eyes from the dangers of ultraviolet light.

This summer, a certain blockbuster movie has made sunglasses even cooler than usual, and most of the inhabitants of planet Philadelphia ("the humid planet") seem to be out shopping for a pair. To find out what looks best on different faces, we asked five Real Women Roadtesters to try on seven popular designs and pick the pair they found most flattering. The five you see here (from left, a Ray-Bans knockoff, a DKNY knockoff, a Gucci knockoff, a Versace knockoff and a Ralph Lauren knockoff)

Who knew thatOctomom's masturbation porno shoot was really just training her hands for a boxing match? Octomom, a/k/a Nadya Suleman, will be in Atlantic City June 23 to either box or pillow-fight an undetermined challenger. Suleman's self-pleasuring porn film has started shooting, according to TMZ, but no distributor or release date has been identified. When we interviewed her last year, Suleman was horrified and offended when we asked if she would ever consider the porn offers she had received.

After six years in business, Jason Wildman had become exhausted customizing, importing and distributing sunglasses with the names and logos of about 300 professional sports teams and colleges. "Keeping track of inventory was a nightmare," said the Rydalresident, who ran the company, Ultimate Vision, in Huntingdon Valley from 1992 until last year. So Wildman, now 30, sold off his low-end sports-sunglasses company in September, and began devoting all his time to promoting a brand of high-end sports sunglasses called Native Eyewear.

Who knew thatOctomom's masturbation porno shoot was really just training her hands for a boxing match? Octomom, a/k/a Nadya Suleman, will be in Atlantic City June 23 to either box or pillow-fight an undetermined challenger. Suleman's self-pleasuring porn film has started shooting, according to TMZ, but no distributor or release date has been identified. When we interviewed her last year, Suleman was horrified and offended when we asked if she would ever consider the porn offers she had received.

DETROIT TIGERS third baseman Miguel Cabrera will rest for a week after being struck in the right eye Monday by a one-hop smash hit by the Phillies' Hunter Pence. Cabrera has a non-displaced fracture under the eye and received eight stitches, but Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski said yesterday that Cabrera's vision is "perfect" and he won't go on the disabled list. "Thank God, I had my sunglasses on," Cabrera said. "It just took a bad hop and I was unlucky.

DOVER, N.J. - Authorities said that a New Jersey man awaiting a court appearance for stealing sunglasses from a car stole a police chief's sunglasses from his car outside police headquarters. Police in Dover on Wednesday charged Zachary Mills, 20, with burglary of a motor vehicle and theft. Mills was scheduled for a court hearing on charges of stealing a debit card, a sweatshirt and sunglasses from a car in Rockaway on Tuesday. Detective Sgt. Richard Gonzalez told the Daily Record of Parsippany that an officer investigated after noticing a light on inside Dover Police Chief Harold Valentine's vehicle.

The sunglasses are not an attempt to look cool. Or even kool. For the next few days, however, Jeff O'Reilly might want to wear them nonstop, thus giving himself a better chance of fending off autograph hounds. Many guys are familiar with hitting home runs in Roxborough's cozy John Boyce Field, which is used by Roman Catholic High for baseball games. O'Reilly smacked one yesterday, in fact, and it raised his high school career total, both the field and overall variety, to two. Ah, but the 6-2, 235-pound righthander, a senior at Cardinal O'Hara, also pitched five innings of no-hit ball and wound up allowing two safeties while - drum roll, please - posting a 4-0 Catholic Red shutout.

The sunglasses are not an attempt to look cool. Or even kool. For the next few days, however, Jeff O'Reilly might want to wear them nonstop, thus giving himself a better chance of fending off autograph hounds. Many guys are familiar with hitting home runs in Roxborough's cozy John Boyce Field, which is used by Roman Catholic High for baseball games. O'Reilly smacked one yesterday, in fact, and it raised his high school career total, both the field and overall variety, to two. Ah, but the 6-2, 235-pound righthander, a senior at Cardinal O'Hara, also pitched five innings of no-hit ball and wound up allowing two safeties while - drum roll, please - posting a 4-0 Catholic Red shutout.

A tattooed serial bank robber struck again Saturday morning at a Cottman Avenue CitiBank, the FBI said. Officials believe the same man, in his late 20s or early 30s, robbed a South Broad Street Wachovia Bank on July 23, a Citizens Bank on Bustleton Avenue on July 26 and a Conestoga Bank on South Broad Street on Aug. 2. In Saturday's robbery, the suspect robbed the teller wearing a brown hat, no sunglasses, a dark t-shirt with a long gray...

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The popular principal at Christ the King Regional School in Haddonfield is accused of stealing an expensive pair of designer sunglasses after telling the store's clerk he worked for the FBI, authorities said. Yesterday, Cherry Hill police released details surrounding the criminal charges against Claudio Cerullo, 40, of Aston. He surrendered to police Tuesday and was placed on unpaid administrative leave Wednesday, authorities said. Cerullo was charged with theft, theft by deception, and impersonation of a public official.

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Police stopped hundreds of motorists near the scene. A $10,000 reward emerged. Dozens of officers, detectives and cadets combed nearby woods, searched case files and other records, and interviewed colleagues and loved ones yesterday for clues in the baffling shooting death of Bucks County lawyer Eric Birnbaum. By day's end, officials had no new public insights into the slaying of the 51-year-old lawyer Wednesday morning outside his office. "We have put all resources into solving this murder," said David Zellis, Bucks County first assistant district attorney.