Philadelphia — Wearing nothing but spatters of fake blood and a banner that mimics Burberry’s signature pattern and reads, “When Plaid Goes Bad,” sultry PETA member Amy Jannette [not pictured] will protest outside a Burberry store in Philadelphia tomorrow today. Other PETA members will hand out leaflets and show PETA’s fur-farm expose — narrated by world-famous fashion designer Stella McCartney — to let shoppers know how countless animals suffer and die to become part of a Burberry coat. Date: Wednesday, May 30, Time: 12 noon sharp Place: In front of Burberry, 1705 Walnut St.

(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA The FBI swarmed a home in Kensington Tuesday and captured Philadelphia’s most wanted female fugitive. Agents and police converged on the house and quickly apprehended Ann Kirby. Kirby is accused of viciously beating her nine-year-old step-daughter and then going on the run for two years. While Kirby was on the run, sources said she collected welfare under different identities and even gave birth to two children of her own. Kirby was the only female on the Philadelphia FBI’s top 10 most wanted list. KYW: Here’s Your Cuffs, What’s Your Hurry? No Really, We Got Nothing But Time

An Indian computer engineer who groped female passengers during a London-to-Philadelphia flight in March and later caused a commotion in a courtroom here was sentenced yesterday to 69 days in prison, or time served. Thirumurthy Nakka Boomaiah of Chennai, India, is expected to be deported. He had pleaded guilty to interfering with a flight crew and faced a sentence of as long as six months. Boomaiah was arrested March 21 at Philadelphia International Airport after passengers and crew complained that he had rubbed the legs and genital areas of female passengers and thrown water in the face of a flight […]

POTTSVILLE, Pa. – Dick Yuengling Jr., fifth-generation owner of the brewery that bears his name, called his employees together a few weeks before their labor contract was set to expire to talk about the future of the business. “Read between the lines,” he told them at one point, according to government documents on the management-union feud that followed. Depending upon whom you ask, Yuengling’s speech was either a pep talk to urge employees to work harder or an ultimatum to dump the Teamsters union, which is what they did. Union leaders say Dick Yuengling told the workers that he would […]

[Artwork by ROBERT SHETTERLY] Sheehan said she had sacrificed a 29-year marriage and endured threats to put all her energy into stopping the war. What she found, she wrote, was a movement “that often puts personal egos above peace and human life.” But she said the most devastating conclusion she had reached “was that Casey did indeed die for nothing … killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think”. “Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how […]

Tour guides will show you this city on foot, trolley, double-decker bus or horse-drawn carriage. But can you believe what they say? That is a concern of some Philadelphia hospitality officials, who worry that the city’s most valuable asset — its history — is being tarnished by unreliable tour guides who mix up dates and spice up the biographies of famous founders like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. The issue has sparked debate and a led to a proposed ordinance to test and license guides. The Liberty Bell alone had 1.8 million visitors last year, and tourism in the region […]

The rusty portion of the bridge at the Philadelphia end has waited many months for a new coat of paint while the governors of Pennsylvania and New Jersey squabbled over a proposed channel deepening of the river. But with the dispute settled May 17, the Delaware River Port Authority board is now ready to entertain bids on the Ben Franklin work, officials said. Contracts for the bridge jobs could not be awarded earlier because Gov. Rendell, the DRPA chairman, refused to call a meeting while the dredging issue was unresolved. This summer, the board is expected to choose a painting […]