PHILLY SCHOOL DOUBLES AS NIGHTCLUB

This is perhaps one of the most bizarre stories of the year.  A cafeteria where hundreds of Philadelphia charter school students have been eating their lunches during the week has been doubling as a nightclub at night and on the weekends, offering dancing and drinking despite an expired liquor license.  City and school officials are not happy about the arrangement between Club Damani and the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, which serves about 450 children in kindergarten through eighth grade.  Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said in a letter to Harambee on Monday that "a school and anightclub cannot coexist in the same space and the arrangement must cease immediately."  Liquor licences can be denied to establishments within 300 feet of a school.  In this case, the school moved into a building that already was licensed to sell liquor.  The location was once an Italian-American social club that held a liquor license since 1936.  The club transferred the licens to the school-affiliated Harambee institue in 2002, but it expired in 2008.  Neighbors are extrememly upset and complain that partygoesr are tossing their empty cans and bottles near the school and trashing up the place.

PASTOR'S HUSBAND ATTACKED IN CHURCH

A Western Pennsylvania man was charged with simple assault for allegedly attacking a pastor's husband during a Palm Sunday church service.  Police said the 31-year-old man was jaile don three counts of simple assault stemming from Sunday's incident at the Christian Church in Wilkinsburt, jsut east of Pittsburgh.  Witnesses said the man attacked the pastor's husband during the service and had to be restrained by members of the congretation until police arrived.  Police said the victim suffered a cut on his ear and forehead and teeth marks on his hand in the attack.  The suspect was arraigned Sunday and was jaile din lieu of $1,000 bond.