Latest News – Philadelphia & Seattle
A Philadelphia police officers veteran has been charged with soliciting an undercover officer he thought was a youth boy, said authorities yesterday.
The one year long examination began after a 15-year-old Northeast Philadelphia boy told police that a man had approached him and proposed cash to take naked photos, Chief Inspector Anthony DiLacqua told reporters.
The boy refused, but after that he saw the exactly same man driving around the neighborhood. He copied down the license plate and contacted police.
The car appertained to Adrian Makuch, a 21-year veteran of the force.
In different actions, the board agreed on uses for most of its remaining economic-development money:
1.5 million to underwrite the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017.
12.9 million to the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp. for lending to small businesses and different ‘projects that will improve the regions economic climate.’
Elliott Bay Book Company, a landmark free bookstore in Seattle, published tonight that it is pulling up stakes.
36 years later, it will move from Pioneer Square, downtown, to the highly urban Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Like many free bookstores, Elliott Bay has been struggling with multiple pressures chain stores, internet competition and the economic crisis. Supplementary, Seattle insiders have been frustrated by downtown parking challenges, panhandlers and Dan Savage, at least its basement reading room.
A probable move has been rumored for months, and Seattleites seem to be split about whether or not its a great idea.
While the bookshop will be missed in Pioneer Square, it will also be welcomed in Capitol Hill.
Not only does the neighborhood have a powerful commercial region, a lively nightlife and lots of pedestrian traffic, but it lost longtime indie Bailey/Coy Books last month