12:30 Report: Your News Update
Rewards for good behavior: Police chief Charles Ramsey is calling for the city to repair police stations that have become decrepit and downright nasty. He cites cracked walls, exposed wiring and leaky sewer pipes as “unacceptable” working conditions for the police force, which can boast that homicides are down about 25 percent so far this year. [KYW]
Today’s word = Philly: Mayor Michael Nutter was first up to face Comedy Central’s self-obsessed satirist Stephen Colbert in a series of four episodes to be shot in the city this week. Colbert challenged the mayor’s gun control laws and grilled him on his support of Hillary Clinton. Tonight, Michelle Obama takes the hot seat, with Gov. Ed Rendell on Wednesday night and Clinton herself on Thursday. [Daily News; video at Comedy Central]
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!: The circus is in the city for an 11-day engagement at the Wachovia Center. The traveling menagerie announced its arrival with a parade down Broad Street of horses, performers and elephants waving Flyers flags. [Inquirer]
He had to go now, and now he’s got to go: Police in Newark, Del., caught a man urinating in public at a rest area off I-95 — just a few feet from the bathroom. Turns out the man was also wanted in Philly on a charge of assault with a gun. He is being held in Delaware until an extradition hearing. [6 ABC]
