12:30 Report: Your News Update
Bring it on: Sixty wanna-be Eagles cheerleaders flashed their spirit fingers at the final auditions for the 2008 season held last night at Penn. The girls found out this morning who landed one of the 38 available spots on the squad. Goooooo team! [Inquirer]
He’s no kindergarten cop: A Pennsauken police officer was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for distributing child porn. He sent offending e-mails from a police department computer — duh, because he didn’t want his own children to find the images and videos on his home computer — and was caught by an undercover operation in Memphis. [Daily News]
What’s less is more: The Art Museum has finally scraped together the last bit of cash needed to purchase the Thomas Eakins masterpiece The Gross Clinic by selling one of the artist’s less famous pieces. The museum and the Pennsylvania Academy have been on a fundraising spree for the last 18 months to raise the $68 million to keep the depiction of Philadelphian Dr. Gross under the Art Museum’s roof. [Inquirer]
Man hit by SEPTA train: A man’s body was found on the tracks along the SEPTA R2 regional rail line in Delaware this morning. Police say that the man, who they presume was a pedestrian, was hit by a train. They continue to investigate whether he was alive prior to being hit. [CBS 3]
