Dobbins class is trying to be a cut above

Morgan Zalot | Philadelphia Daily News
If Kyle Savage could give anyone in the world a haircut, it would be President Obama, he joked recently as he stood outside the barbershop class at his school.
“I’ve been cutting since I was 13,” the junior said. “I always had a thing for hair.”
Savage, 18, is hoping to use [...]

Funeral for first little one killed by car

Morgan Zalot | Philadelphia Daily News
Aaliyah Griffin, 6, one of three little girls who were killed Wednesday when a car barreled onto a packed sidewalk in Feltonville, will be laid to rest this morning.
Services will be held later this week for the two other girls, Gina Marie Rosario, 7, and Remedy Smith, 11 months, and [...]

Camelot aids troubled Philly kids

Morgan Zalot | Philadelphia Daily News
Charles Perkins, 18, was released from the Bridge drug-rehabilitation center just in time to be crowned prom king at Shallcross School’s senior prom.
“I was at [at the Bridge] for three months, and my school still was involved,” said Perkins, who was placed in Shallcross during 11th grade after being caught with [...]

SHATTERED LIVES: A Feltonville neighborhood mourns the killing of 3 girls, 1 woman

Dana DiFilippo & Morgan Zalot | Philadelphia Daily News
IT WAS the kind of night that drove people outdoors, the hour late enough that homework and dinner were done, the dusky sky clear enough to give a brief respite from the week’s incessant rain.
In Feltonville, Latoya Smith plopped her baby in a stroller and sat on [...]

Tough-sentencing bill starts Pa. House journey

Morgan Zalot | Philadelphia Daily News
For Larry McDonald, whose son Police Sgt. Patrick McDonald was gunned down in the line of duty last fall, the passage of House Bill 1567 would mean that his son didn’t die in vain.
“Very simply put, 33 days after Daniel Giddings was paroled, he murdered my son,” McDonald said at [...]

Accused bank robber not elderly, but depressed

Morgan Zalot & David Gambacorta | Philadelphia Daily News
Turns out the shuffling thief who held up a Center City bank on Monday isn’t so elderly, after all.
Jerry Lee Stanton, who was arrested yesterday by FBI agents at the West Philadelphia personal-care home where he lives, is actually 59 years old – not in his 70s, [...]

West Phila. man sought in slaying

Morgan Zaot | Philadelphia Daily News
A warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of a West Philadelphia man identified as one of the shooters in the May 31 gunbattle that killed the step-grandson of Philadelphia boxing legend Joe Frazier, police said.
Rodney Evans, 32, of Ludlow Street near 55th, is wanted in connection with the shooting [...]

26-year-old woman is city’s first swine-flu victim

Morgan Zalot | Philadelphia Daily News
Swine flu claimed the life of a 26-year-old woman on Sunday, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced yesterday. It is the city’s first swine-flu fatality.
“When these cases are suspected and confirmed, the Division of Disease Control [does] a follow up with family and close contacts,” said Department of Public [...]

SEPTA, cop sued in man’s slaying

Stephanie Farr & Morgan Zalot | Philadelphia Daily News
An attorney representing the wife and the estate of a man who was shot and killed last year by an off-duty SEPTA cop filed a civil suit in Montgomery County Court yesterday against the cop and SEPTA.
Although District Attorney Risa Ferman’s criminal investigation into SEPTA Police Sgt. [...]

2 Kensington men rewarded in rape suspect’s capture

Morgan Zalot | Philadelphia Daily News
Two Kensington men each received a $5,750 reward yesterday for their roles in the capture of Jose Carrasquillo, 26, who allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl on her way to school Monday morning.
“These guys stepped up to the plate,” said Fraternal Order of Police President John McNesby, adding that $1,500 of [...]