Good Morning. Here are some of the top stories from around the region today.
WEATHER
It’s certainly a shock walking out of the door today. It was downright cold after a couple of days of the 70s. Expect the high to not get much above 50 degrees today and there will be plenty of rain around.
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ELECTION DAY
NEWS
Facing child-porn raps, Radnor Commissioner Philip Ahr resigns
Philip Ahr resigned as Radnor Township’s 7th Ward commissioner on Monday, clearing the way for the appointment of a replacement by the board of commissioners. The board voted 4-0 at a special meeting to accept his resignation. But Ahr, a 66-year-old Democrat, might be facing more than the 130 child pornography-related counts than have already been lodged against him. After he turned his township-issued iPad into township Manager Robert Zienkowski, Zienkowski asked a township detective to analyze it before it was turned over to another employee to use. The detective allegedly found “deeply concerning and disturbing” material on the device, police said. The iPad was turned over to Delaware County detectives who are handling the investigation.
Mom saved from heroin overdose by son gets home monitoring
An Upper Darby woman who pleaded guilty to theft and child endangerment charges in September was sentenced to six to 23 months Monday with the minimum to be served on electronic home monitoring. Sandra DiCianno, 31, will also receive credit time for a short prison stint and inpatient treatment under the sentence handed down by Delaware County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard N. Cappelli.
Lower Providence robber sent back to prison for violation
A Lower Providence man who previously served time behind bars for robbing a township business while armed with a BB gun in 2014 is back in prison for violating his sentence with an arrest for retail theft in Upper Merion. Daniel J. Rogan, 33, of the 100 block of Nester Drive, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to one to three years in a state correctional facility after he admitted that he violated the probation and parole period he was serving in connection with the 2014 incident. The sentence was imposed by Judge Joseph P. Walsh.
Salford woman admits to DUI crash that injured teen passenger
A Salford Township woman potentially faces prison time after she admitted to driving under the influence of illegal drugs and causing a crash that seriously injured a teenage boy who was a passenger in her car. Karleen Elizabeth Okoh, 33, of the first block of Highview Drive, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to charges of aggravated assault by a vehicle while driving under the influence of controlled substances and driving under the influence of controlled substances in connection with the Nov. 27, 2016, one-vehicle crash in the 300 block of Ridge Road in Salford.
Driver in custody after WCU students injured in hit-and-run
Two West Chester University students were injured in a hit-and-run accident on South Campus Drive near Pomona Hill Drive at 8:48 a.m. Monday morning. Police say a car drove onto the sidewalk headed south when it struck two students at the bus stop. The car then veered down the hill. Damaged bricks and car parts could be seen at the spot which is in front of the softball field.
Ex-official of Pennsburg school convicted of improper contact with student
The former director of communications for a private school in Pennsburg has been convicted of charges he had inappropriate social media communications with a 15-year-old boy at the school. Edwin Desean Stubbs, 26, most recently of Newark N.J., was convicted in Montgomery County Court of charges of unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communication facility and corruption of a minor in connection with incidents that occurred between March and May 2016 while he was director of communications for The Perkiomen School, a private college preparatory high school in Pennsburg. Judge Thomas C. Branca rendered the verdict after a non-jury trial.
SPORTS
Carson Wentz, Doug Pederson will use Eagles off week to improve
The bye week upon the Eagles, it is an opportunity for the coaches and players to do a little clean-up. “Absolutely,” Carson Wentz said Sunday, after a 51-23 victory over the Denver Broncos. “We’re never going to settle.” So pass Doug Pederson a pressure washer. OK, make it a mop.
McCaffery: Doug Pederson can’t let Carson Wentz hype muffle Eagles story
Doug Pederson coaches the Eagles, all of them, the quarterbacks and the defensive backs, the tackles and the tacklers, those making plays and those preventing them. For that, he knows he must brace against the 21st-century sports trend about to explode. That’s what the head coach did Monday, before his 8-1 Eagles began a bye-week sabbatical.
76ers start West Coast trip with Embiid on bench for ‘load management’
The Philadelphia 76ers are the only team that can stop Joel Embiid. Perhaps the best center in the East starts a West Coast road trip on the bench. Something called “load management.” Oh, Sixers fans think the excuse to sit Embiid is a load of something, for sure.
