Teen sought in fatal shooting

The 19-year-old victim was pistol-whipped before being shot in his chest and abdomen. He died three hours later at a hospital.

Homicide investigators continue to search for the teenager who gunned down a 19-year-old male last Thursday on the 900 block…

PAL honors child victim

It’s an honor that no parent would ever seek for her child — but one Elizabeth Cutner received all the same.

A new Police Athletic League center has opened at 20th and Catharine streets, named for Cutner’s daughter, Michelle.

City sticking it to rink?

Lou Lozzi spent more than half his life at Rizzo Rink, learning to skate circles around the competition in ice hockey and roller hockey.

The 16-year-old won a city roller-hockey championship in 2002, and followed that up with an appearance in USA Hockey’s…

Class of their own

One in a series of stories on the last independent year of St. John Neumann and St. Maria Goretti high schools.

Without Adria Vitale, St. Maria Goretti High might never have established a varsity soccer team.

Church find has familiar ring

It could have been a scene out of the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds:

Pigeons flying around wooden beams in almost “attack formation,” about 18 inches of pigeon droppings on the floor and dozens of bird carcasses. All were inside a local church’s…

Sports briefs: 5–13–04

ALL-CITY CLASSIC

The Philadelphia U.S.A. basketball program will hold its 10th annual Stay in School Adidas All-City Classic on June 5 at La Salle University. Tip-off for the first game is at 1 p.m. The top freshmen, sophomores and juniors from the Philadelphia…

Miss Spelling

Most fully grown adults would pause for a minute or two if someone asked them to get up in front of a room full of people and spell “cosmozoic.” Or “gnomonics.” Or “spadiceous.”

Yet 12-year-old Tricia Ann Powles intends to tackle hundreds of similarly difficult words while…

Konak

Konak 

228 Vine St. 

215–592–1212 

Credit cards accepted 

Restrooms down a long flight of stairs 

Authentic Turkish fare

Tax-reform meetings

“The property tax hurts people on fixed incomes. House values are going up, and so does the tax.”

Peter A. Pacitti, 

20th and Mifflin streets

Game, set, match

Smooth playing surfaces and taut nets will greet area tennis players this summer as the Fairmount Park Commission finishes work on 10 new courts near the Pattison Avenue and Broad Street entrance to FDR Park.

Epic struggles

Troy

R 

Starting tomorrow at area theaters 

Two-and-a-half reels out of four