Former Gov. Ed Rendell says he has assembled a group of corporate and political leaders that has offered to buy the owner of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com.

AT ONE TIME or another, there was probably a joke that began, "So Ed Rendell, Ed Snider and 'Johnny Doc' walk into a bar . . . "

Standing in a dense crowd of students and faculty in the lobby of Rowan University's Wilson Hall on Friday, marketing professor Berhe Habte-Giorgis was ecstatic.

For 30 years, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has set the pace and won the race - not for the cure of the disease, but for trademarks, sponsors, alliances, and clout.

A top Harrisburg Republican said Friday that the legislature might consider moving back the April 24 primary election to make time for a commission to create new maps for all 203 state House seats and 50 Senate seats.

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said Friday that he was angry that "a senior member of the archdiocesan staff stole more than $900,000 of our people's resources," but was relieved the missing money would have relatively little impact on the Catholic Church here.

Drexel University, in partnership with a Texas-based developer, has launched a $97 million student-housing and retail-development plan along Chestnut Street.

The City of Philadelphia wants to hire an efficiency expert. Believe it or not, this may be a first for the city government.

HARRISBURG - The jury in the corruption trial of State Rep. Bill DeWeese deliberated for a second full day Friday without reaching a verdict.

Expressing regret and quoting Shakespeare, a Chester County Court judge declared a mistrial in a murder case Friday after three full days of testimony.