Philadelphia Zoo wants to make it easier to visit

LOCAL HEADLINES

1. Zoo Wants to Make It Easier to Get There (Inquirer)
2. Nutter Announces New Employee Package (Tribune)
3. What’s Cooking in Philly: Pizza Museum (CBS3)

WEATHER

• Humid and rainy
• HIGHS: 77°
• WIND: SSW 12 mph

TODAY IN HISTORY

• 1941 – The Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams plays a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics on the last day of the season and gets six hits in eight trips to the plate, boosting his batting average to .406 and becoming the first player since Bill Terry in 1930 to hit .400.
• 1918 – A Liberty Loan parade in Philadelphia prompts a huge outbreak of the flu epidemic in the city. By the time it ends, an estimated 30 million people are dead worldwide.
• 1901 – Ed Sullivan, who will become the host of the longest-running TV variety program, The Ed Sullivan Show, is born in New York City.
• 1991 – Jazz trumpet legend Miles Davis dies in a California hospital at the age of 65.