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A 92-year-old woman was fatally struck by a car Thursday when a fellow resident of a Cherry Hill senior housing complex lost control of the vehicle in the facility's parking lot, township police said. Rose Weber, who was pushing a walker in the lot of the Raymond and Gertrude R. Saltzman House in the 1400 block of Springdale Road, died at the scene shortly before 3 p.m. Authorities believe Shirley Braverman, 82, "stepped on the gas instead of the brake" while backing out of a space on the north end of the parking lot, said Lt. Sean Redmond.

The Herschel Walker Watch is on, with the Oct. 17 trade deadline looming and the Dallas Cowboys entertaining offers for their Pro Bowl running back. Walker was at practice yesterday but refused to give any clue whether the trade rumors about his departure from Dallas would come true. "I don't think about it," Walker said. "Right now I'm concentrating on playing football for the Dallas Cowboys. " Walker has been a stranger in the Dallas offense. In Sunday's 31-13 loss to Green Bay, he carried 12 times for 44 yards.

National League MVP Larry Walker of the Colorado Rockies' will undergo arthroscopic surgery on a troublesome right elbow Tuesday in Denver and is expected to miss most of spring training. The team expects the rightfielder to be 100 percent healthy by opening day. Walker felt pain in his elbow after swinging and missing a pitch in the Rockies' 160th game of the season on Sept. 26. Later in that at-bat, Walker belted his 49th homer of the season. He never got a chance for No. 50 as the pain in the elbow prevented him from playing the final two games.

Rep. Robert S. Walker was named yesterday to a top GOP leadership position in the House. The conservative Pennsylvania Republican, whose 16th Congressional District includes Lancaster, was one of two chief deputy whips appointed by Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (R., Ga.). Walker, who was elected in 1976, is an ally of the outspoken Gingrich, who waged a successful battle last month for the second-ranking House GOP leadership post. Gingrich succeeded Rep. Dick Cheney of Wyoming, who resigned to become secretary of defense.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Does Herschel Walker want the Dallas Cowboys to make him the NFL's highest-paid player? The Dallas Times Herald quoted unnamed sources as saying Walker would try for the highest pay in the league, a distinction held now by Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway, who is getting $4 million over five years. But agent Peter Johnson said he merely wants Walker to become the highest- paid Cowboy, and added that his client's demands will not be "outrageous.

Former Eagle Herschel Walker apparently is heading up the New Jersey Turnpike to join the New York Giants and take over the third-down and return- specialist job that opened when Dave Meggett signed with New England. Walker and the Giants spoke last week, and a team source told the Associated Press a deal was expected to be struck over the weekend. "We're not in a position to comment on the situation yet," Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said yesterday. Walker, who was released last week by the Eagles, told the Star-Ledger of Newark on Friday that he was excited by the prospect of returning to the Meadowlands, where he started his career with the New Jersey Generals of the USFL, and playing for Dan Reeves.

Willie A. Walker Jr., 51, a WPVI-TV (Channel 6) cameraman who brought skill, sensitivity and news judgment to his Philadelphia stories, died of liver disease Friday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He lived in Glenside. Mr. Walker worked at television stations in Charleston, S.C., and Buffalo, N.Y., before coming to Philadelphia in 1986 to work for Channel 6's Action News. "Willie was reassuring to work with," said Denise James, a Channel 6 reporter. "He was not afraid to immerse himself in community problems.

Some athletes, like boxers for example, tape a photo of their next opponent to the medicine cabinet mirror. They want to see the enemy first thing in the morning, last thing at night. With Keith Walker, it's goal posts. And why not? The yellow uprights are, after all, the natural enemy of a field goal kicker. Walker, a 5-4 kicking giant for Army, tacks a hand-drawn picture of his foe above his locker before each game. "I look at the uprights on the goal posts and I just picture the perfect kick," said Walker, a senior whose two field goals helped lift Army to a 20-15 victory over Navy Saturday at Veterans Stadium.

The incumbent drove up in a white Corvette, wearing a richly tailored suit, soft leather loafers and his congressional cuff links. The challenger arrived in a faded blue 1988 Pontiac Safari station wagon. His suit was rumpled. His shoes were scuffed oxfords. His tie was the red and blue colors of the University of Pennsylvania. And he was tagged with the line "multimillionaire businessman" by the incumbent, something his wife said might be true if they sold everything they owned.

E. Perot Walker, 89, a teacher who fired the imaginations of generations of students at Chestnut Hill Academy, died April 7 of complications associated with Parkinson's disease at Cathedral Village, a retirement community in Roxborough. Before moving to Cathedral Village about five years ago, Mr. Walker had been a longtime resident of Lafayette Hill. Former students say Mr. Walker seemed to have stepped right out of Central Casting and into the classroom when he started teaching at Chestnut Hill Academy in 1948.

A 92-year-old woman was fatally struck by a car Thursday when a fellow resident of a Cherry Hill senior housing complex lost control of the vehicle in the facility's parking lot, township police said. Rose Weber, who was pushing a walker in the lot of the Raymond and Gertrude R. Saltzman House in the 1400 block of Springdale Road, died at the scene shortly before 3 p.m. Authorities believe Shirley Braverman, 82, "stepped on the gas instead of the brake" while backing out of a space on the north end of the parking lot, said Lt. Sean Redmond.

MADISON, Wis. - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett won the Democratic primary Tuesday in Wisconsin's historic recall election, leaving him with a short four weeks to make the closing argument that Republican Gov. Scott Walker should be booted from office after 16 contentious months on the job. Walker easily defeated token opposition in the GOP primary Tuesday, so Barrett's win set up a June 5 rematch of the 2010 governor's race. It was an election that failed to hint at the turmoil to come.

OAK CREEK, Wis. - Gov. Christie parachuted into the middle of the country Tuesday to lend some of his self-styled Jersey tough-guy firepower to a beleaguered and controversial Republican governor on the front lines of the war to roll back spending on public employees. Carrying his union-battling reputation, his possible vice-presidential-candidate aura, and his perch as No. 2 at the Republican Governors Association, Christie rallied the faithful and helped fill the coffers of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is facing a recall election.

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has raised more than $13 million in three months for a recall election, easily shattering the fund-raising record he set last year. Walker became the target of a recall election after he pushed through legislation last year eliminating most public union workers' bargaining rights. His showdown with labor leaders and their Democratic allies made him a celebrity in Republican circles and enabled him to rake in cash at a pace never before seen in Wisconsin.

Shadows always are dancing on the old brick walls of Franklin Field during the Penn Relays. If you look closely enough, you can see the reflection of Jesse Owens' 220-yard leg for Ohio State in the sprint medley in 1936, and Larry James' anchor leg in the mile relay for Villanova in 1968, and Usain Bolt's half-human/half-hovercraft performance for Jamaica's 4x100 relay on that sunny Saturday afternoon in 2010. But there isn't a wall wide enough to contain the legacy of Dr. LeRoy Walker.

LeRoy Walker, 93, the first African American president of the U.S. Olympic Committee who attended the Penn Relays for six decades as a coach and referee, died Monday in Durham, N.C. Dr. Walker spent more than 40 years at North Carolina Central, first as track coach and later as chancellor. During his career, he coached eight Olympians who won a total of 11 medals, including back-to-back golds by hurdler Lee Calhoun in 1956 and 1960. Dr. Walker became the first African American coach of the U.S. Olympic men's track and field team in 1976 and led the squad to 22 medals, including six gold.

A woman known as the "Black Madam," who was accused of administering a buttocks injection last year that killed a woman from London, was arrested Wednesday night in the East Germantown section of the city, police said. Padge Victoria Windslowe, 42, had gone to a house in the 100 block of East Pastorius Street for a "pumping party" - where women receive illegal silicone injections - when she was arrested about 8 p.m., said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives. She was charged Thursday with criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, theft by deception, deceptive practices, possession of an instrument of crime, simple assault and reckless endangerment of another person.

Bail was set at $10 million this morning for a woman arrested by Philadelphia police and charged with injecting another woman with silicone in an illegal buttocks enhancing procedure. Padge Victoria Windslowe, 42, who has been linked to a death of a British woman following a similar procedure a year ago, also must surrender her passport, the District Attorney's Office said. Windslowe must post $1 million to get released on bail. A transgender "gothic hip-hop artist" known as the "Black Madam," Windslowe was arrested Wednesday night at an East Germantown home where she was to host a "pumping party," police said.

'BLACK MADAM,' the transgender "gothic hip-hop artist" best known for allegedly administering the illegal butt injection that killed a 20-year-old British woman last year, was arrested last night in connection with another potential deadly injection. Black Madam, whose real name is Padge Victoria Windslowe, 42, of West Philadelphia, was arrested in an East Germantown home where she was to host a "pumping party," police said. She had been walking free for more than a year since Claudia Seye Aderotimi died after receiving a butt injection at an airport hotel on Feb. 7, 2011.

Mary Walker Brown, 84, of Philadelphia, a Baptist and Methodist choir director, died Saturday, Feb. 18, after a stroke at the Vitas Hospice of Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. Born in Louisville, Ga., Mrs. Brown graduated from William Penn High School in 1946 and earned a degree in music education at what is now West Chester University in 1950. Mrs. Brown's daughter, Donna Brown Ginyard, said she was a music teacher at the Gay Street Elementary School in West Chester from 1950 to 1952 before teaching at Thomas M. Peirce Elementary School in Philadelphia from 1952 to 1961.