PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge ruled that the city’s police department did not violate the civil rights of a Muslim officer when it forbade her from wearing a head scarf on the job. Kimberlie Webb, 44, who has been on the force more than 10 years, filed a discrimination lawsuit in October 2005 after the department said she could not wear a khimar at work because the religious symbol violated uniform regulations. U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III on Tuesday sided with the city and dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the police department did not discriminate or retaliate against Webb. […]

BY KATHY BOCCELLA OF THE INQUIRER Susan Tabas Tepper, [NOT pictured] the Main Line millionaire accused of attacking her nanny in a rage over unfinished chores last month, waived a hearing on simple assault and harassment charges today and will face trial on Aug. 8 in Montgomery County Court.The Villanova banking and hotel heiress smiled as she arrived at the District Justice office in Narberth in handcuffs. She is currently in Montgomery County prison, where she has been held since May 23 on charges she violated her probation stemming from a Feb. 26 assault conviction. Tepper, 44, looked pale and […]

BY RICK MORAN In 1789, Congress was charged with the difficult task of locating a Capitol city that would satisfy the concerns of the two sections, north and south. The current Capitol of New York was deemed unacceptable by most — except New Yorkers for the most part. Congress had earlier carved out some land near Trenton, New Jersey to serve as the Capitol but southerners put their foot down and refused to appropriate any monies to build anything on the site. The Senate compromised by moving the Capitol to Philadelphia following the second session of the new Congress while […]

A Common Pleas Court jury today found Jeffrey Marsalis — accused of drugging and raping seven women whom he met on Match.com — guilty of two counts of sexual assault and not guilty on five other counts. The jurors failed to reach a verdict on one count of rape. The jury of eight women and four men began deliberating last Thursday after 2 ? weeks of testimony highlighted by the appearances of the seven women who accused Marsalis, 34, of drugging and raping them. The assaults occurred from 2003 to 2005, they said. Marsalis was found not guilty on the […]

WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’: The Woggles perform tonight at the North Star Bar. The Woggles are a garage band in the wooly, frat-rock party-animal tradition of ’60s bands like the Sonics. All the songs sound like steroid-fed mash-ups of “Louie, Louie” and “Shout,” and on a good night, it’s all you can do not to stand up between songs and shout, “Otis! My man!” Based in Atlanta, the Woggles are fronted by a Don Imus lookalike named Manfred Jones, who, on this night, is hands down the hardest-working man in garage rock. By the second song his sweat-soaked black tuxedo shirt […]

Lightning struck a 14-year-old Cherry Hill boy [NOT pictured] yesterday afternoon, stopping his heart, setting his shirt on fire, and eventually landing him at the Temple University Hospital’s Burn Center, where he was in critical but stable condition this morning. Just after 5:30 p.m., as thunderstorms moved through, a resident in 300 block of Monroe Avenue heard the loud boom of a lightning strike and looked out the window to see a boy lying on the ground with his shirt on fire, according to Lt. Bill Kushina of Cherry Hill police. The resident called 911, ran outside and used his […]