The Philadelphia Inquirer

SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. - The wait was long and the wind was freezing. The big black limousine hurtled past in an all-too-momentary blur. But for hundreds who lined the streets of the Lehigh Valley today, it was their first sighting of President Obama in the flesh. Full Story »

Police today announced the arrest of Kadeem Cook, 18, of the 200 block of West Champlost Street in Olney. He's the man who police said robbed a woman at gunpoint Wednesday night while she was walking along the 1000 block of Nedro Avenue, taking her purse and cell phone. Full Story »

Authorities today are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 58-year-old Camden County man at a Collingswood apartment complex. Full Story »

President Obama, offering "some encouraging news" on the jobs front to a Lehigh Valley audience, called on businesses to start hiring again and urged banks to do their part by lending money to businesses again. Full Story »

Seasonal flu vaccine will be available to Burlington County residents age 65 and older at a clinic on Tuesday in Westampton, the county health department said today. Full Story »

Authorities are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 58-year-old Collingswood man at The Heights at Collingswood apartments in the 500 block of N. Newton Lake Drive. Full Story »

HARRISBURG - Sean Ramaley was a fresh-faced law school graduate eager to learn politics when he landed a job in 2004 as a legislative aide to then-Democratic power broker Rep. Michael Veon. Full Story »

Hadeem Cook has been charged with being the North Philadelphia robber who used a stolen cell phone to take a self portrait of himself with a gun only to have the photo end up on his victim's computer. Full Story »

Comcast Corp. yesterday began courting Washington lawmakers and Wall Street investors to win over skeptics to its $30 billion proposed merger with entertainment giant NBC Universal Inc. Full Story »

The National Weather Service says an inch or more of snow is likely by Sunday morning, but that amount could double. Full Story »

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A second homeless man has been arrested and charged with stealing a watch from a respected Puerto Rican musician who died waiting for care at a hospital emergency room. Full Story »

A drive is well underway to create a bronze likeness memorializing legendary Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas. What began as a petition on Facebook has grown into a fund-raising project with small models already created by a professional sculptor. Full Story »

A truck driver was killed last night when his rig slammed into a utility pole on Route 130 near the Black Horse Pike in Haddon Township. Full Story »

The results are in and the Philadelphia Zoo's baby girl orangutan has a name. Full Story »

Law enforcement officials are looking for a man who robbed a Center City bank yesterday saying he had a bomb. Full Story »

Months ago, with little public awareness, the Delaware County wastewater treatment plant got a state permit to accept wastewater from natural gas-drilling operations hundreds of miles away. Full Story »

Thomas McFarland will go to trial in Cape May County on charges that he dumped hundreds of pieces of medical waste into a Jersey Shore waterway and fouled Avalon beaches in August 2008. Full Story »

Rutgers University's 2,000 administrative workers have agreed to accept one-year delays of their 2009 and 2010 raises in return for a management pledge of no layoffs. Full Story »

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner urged the Delaware River Port Authority yesterday to ban the use of exotic financial instruments known as "interest-rate swaps." Full Story »

Getting an early start on his administration, Gov.-elect Christopher J. Christie yesterday named former State Sen. Richard Bagger his chief of staff. Full Story »

Nearly every holiday season in Tovah Ross' memory has included gift-wrapping at the Cherry Hill Mall.During the annual fund-raiser for Camden County Hadassah, the Jewish women's service organization, Ross has sat at her mother's elbow and learned the tricks to tying a bow around a bowling ball and disguising a jogging stroller in snowman-covered paper. Full Story »

TRENTON - A day after the New York legislature killed a bill to allow same-sex marriage, New Jersey's version of the legislation appeared very much alive. Full Story »

Donald Washington Sr., 79, a well-known Philadelphia-area jazz saxophonist and retired Food Fair worker from Haddon Heights, died of lung cancer Tuesday at home. Full Story »

Samantha Marie Grosse, 22, of Lansdale, a senior at the University of Florida, died Monday at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia after an 18-year battle with cystic fibrosis. Full Story »