| Suspect caught after chase
A chase by vehicle and foot ended at Davis Estates Apartments with the capture of one of two suspects Wednesday night. Officer David Curley said he clocked a car driven by Tracy Lynn Marable, 28, Old Pencil Mill Road, at 45 mph in a 30 mph zone on Coney Island Road. Marable allegedly sped up, ran a stop sign at the East Depot Street intersection and led officers to Anthony Lane and the apartment complex, where she and a passenger attempted to flee on foot after coming to a dead end in the parking lot. Verbal orders to stop were allegedly ignored by Marable until she "appeared to run out of breath," Curley said. "I took her to the ground to be handcuffed." The passenger, a man Marable told police she knew only as "Creep," ran behind one of the complex's buildings and disappeared.
Popular coffee shop has gone to the dogs
And Renton's Sue Rider couldn't ignore his need for a home, or his jowly -- and strangely captivating -- visage. So Rider, a self-described sucker for a pooch in need, adopted Dozer, a bulldog pup whose mother was pregnant when she was rescued from a Spokane puppy mill. Ten years later, Dozer lives the canine good life, a pampered -- and popular -- dog-about-town. He doesn't move as fast as he once did, so Rider accommodates him by pushing him around her Kennydale neighborhood in a stroller. When snow and ice hit and the stroller was no longer practical, Dozer stubbornly insisted on being pulled around on a sled -- by Rider's boyfriend, who complained, "He has that sled-dog thing all wrong." Rider also bought a Mini Cooper and put a mattress in the back -- the better to accommodate Dozer and his companions, a young bulldog named Beanie and an elderly, one-eyed Chihuahua-cross (also rescued) named Peepee.
No auction for Phila. School District's works of art
The Philadelphia School District's art collection remains off the auction block - and the district's top administrator believes it will stay that way. "I doubt they will sell now. I don't think there's support to sell the paintings," Chief Executive Officer Paul Vallas said yesterday. His comments came after a School Reform Commission meeting at which the commission took no action on selling the art. The commission last month tabled a resolution to consider selling a portion of the collection. The resolution was put forth by Commissioner Daniel Whelan, who is no longer on the board. Commission Chairman James Nevels said yesterday that the resolution had been withdrawn and that the commission would move ahead with a study of the art to determine its ownership and worth.
Longtime antique store owner dies at 77
When Shirley Dalton died early last week, Hutchinson's downtown antiques district lost one of its longtime business owners.
Dalton, 77, owned Down Home Antiques at 129 South Main. She died Jan. 8. Jim Seitnater, Hutchinson's downtown development director, said Dalton was an early presence in an effort that blossomed into a corridor of small businesses. "She was one of the original members in the antique district," Seitnater said. "She did some nice improvements on a great building there on the corner at B and Main. She helped lead the way like so many others in the area." Lloyd Armstrong, who owns Armstrong's Antiques three buildings north of Down Home, said when his shop opened, Dalton's store was one of few options for antique shoppers. Back then, Down Home was in a building in the next block south, just north of Smith's Market, Armstrong said.
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