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1. A jammed gun saved a Camden police officer from being shot in the face, reports Barbara Boyer. While the officer remains in good condition, the 19-year-old suspect is in jail, with no bail set.

2. The body of Fred Anton, an 83-year-old Center City man known as a Republican power broker in Pennsylvania politics, was recovered from the Delaware River.

3. The cooler temperatures on the way signal a full-blown La Nina event coming. That means cold, wet and snow for our region. Or it means, as the government's Climate Prediction Center says, that the odds are tilted toward a mild winter for Philadelphia, the entire Northeast and roughly two-thirds of the rest of the country. Don't worry, Tony Wood has figured it out for us.

4. Frankie's blood did not wash away. Maybe police thought that it would, writes Helen Ubiñas, the way the rain pounded the pavement that Sunday night. Or maybe the dark had made it hard for them to see the sidewalk, still stained deep red when his family arrived the next morning at Hancock and Susquehanna.

5. Tricia Nadolny traveled to Utuada, an interior town in Puerto Rico that has lost its connection to the outside world after Hurricane Maria destroyed the one bridge into town. Now residents use a makeshift roped-pulled rafts to make the crossing, she writes in her latest dispatch from the Hinterlands.

6. Prosecutors have concluded their racketeering case against payday lending pioneer Charles Hallinan on Thursday, after 21 days of testimony that painted him as a predator who capitalized on the financial distress of low-income borrowers to whom he loaned money at annual interest rates approaching 800 percent, writes Jeremy Roebuck.

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1. It was billed as a "get out the vote" breakfast for African American ward leaders in Philadelphia. Then the rumors and recriminations started. Get your PhillyClout fill right here.

2. Eagles pray in hot tubs, closets and on vibration plates, players tell Bible Study magazine.

3. The Center City and Schuylkill skylines may be turning into glasshenge, but humans still yearn for buildings with the scale, texture and heft of masonry structures, writes Inga Saffron. The newly re-clad building for the East Market development provides that tactile experience. But will it be a harbinger of change?

4. All over the city, new apartment and condominiums are being built as mixed-use buildings — retail goes on the ground floor so the street is lively, and upper levels are set aside for living. But what happens when a building owner decides to mix the commercial space with the residential space?

5. The University of Pennsylvania plans to build 250,000 square feet of new undergraduate student housing on what's now open space near the corner of 40th and Walnut Streets, beside the Free Library of Philadelphia's West Philadelphia Branch.

6. Baseball has long had unique personalities, and the Phillies' new manager, Gabe Kapler, is one. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Kapler, columnist Mike Sielski writes, is in step with the modern media age, and the modern major-leaguer.

7. Philadelphia is looking for a few good ideas to harness the potential energy flowing through the city's waterways. No, seriously.

1. You think it's unseemly to enjoy the humiliating comeuppance of these men who use their power for sex? Columnist Ronnie Polaneczky says: Spare me.

2. One month after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, a nation's collective shrug has been painful to watch. Will Bunch asks: How can we treat mass gun murder with the same urgency as terror attacks?

1. Coal miners in Pennsylvania and elsewhere are so confident Trump will restore their industry that they're turning down alternate-career training. [Quartz]

2. Can Germany fix Facebook? A new law seeks to protect "human dignity" on the internet. [The Atlantic]

3. When you die, you'll probably be embalmed. Thank Abraham Lincoln for that: The president was an "early adopter" of embalming technology, helping to bring the modern death industry to the mainstream. [Smithsonian]

4. Opioids haven't solved chronic pain. Maybe virtual reality can. [Wired]

5. The origin story behind the Indiana Jones ride: One of the creators of several classic Disneyland rides tells the story. [Los Angeles Magazine]