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Education

Don’t discuss the Jan. 6 insurrection with students, a Bucks school district tells teachers

A Bucks County school district has instructed teachers not to “wade into” discussions with students about the insurrection “due to the current polarization.”

4 years ago

Brianna Ocampo, 8, receives her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Lurie Children's hospital registered nurse Yorman Gomez at Northwest Community Church in Chicago, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital's mobile vaccine clinic visited Belmont Cragin to help ensure adults and kids can be fully-vaccinated for the holiday season. 
The clinic was not be providing Dose 1 of the vaccine, and only provided youth and adult Dose 2, Dose 3 and booster vaccines. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Health

U.S. urges COVID boosters starting at age 12 to fight omicron

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has agreed, recommending that younger teens — and those 16 and 17 — should get a Pfizer booster five months after their last sho

4 years ago

More than $100,000 will be used to engage people in clean water stewardship through freshwater mussel education, and to fund its 2022 Pennsylvania Coast Day event. (courtesy of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary)
Community

Projects to improve the ecosystem along the Delaware and river access in Chester receive $575K from DEP

The grant funds will help pay for 12 education, design, and engineering efforts to protect and restore the 3-county Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone.

4 years ago

Koren Norwood, a Camden County health educator, assists Steve Shirk, of Audobon, with the COVID test packet, which includes a QR code to get to the website. Shirk was one of dozens to arrive to a new drive-in COVID testing site in Camden on Jan. 5, 2022. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Health

Camden County opens new drive-in COVID test site amid demand

Amid a surge in cases and hospitalizations, Camden County opens a new site to help address demand for COVID testing.

4 years ago

Todd Bernstein, founder and director of the Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service at Girard College announces the slate of activities for this year’s event. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Philly’s mostly virtual MLK Day of Service to explore theme of ‘Combating Racism and Building Community’

The 27th annual Day of Service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. will focus on issues of health justice, voting rights, gun violence, early literacy, and living wage jobs.

4 years ago

File photo: Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings (Cris Barrish)
Politics & Policy

Delaware AG Jennings says elections ‘still under threat’ ahead of insurrection anniversary

A group of Democratic attorneys general call on their Republican counterparts to follow the rule of law when it comes to ensuring fair elections.

4 years ago

crime scene
Courts & Law

Outlaw vows to reduce homicides in Philly as shootings continue to surge in 2022

Philly police say they can reduce crime by reassigning officers to street duty and creating a new unit designed to curb non-fatal shootings.

4 years ago

Sussex Correctional Institution (State of Delaware)
Courts & Law

Delaware ACLU in federal court to fight ‘unprovoked violence’ against prisoners

The first of several lawsuits coming from the civil rights organization accuses a correctional officer of leading the beatings of two men last year, a month apart.

4 years ago

A group of people stand around a podium.
Health

Montco experiences ‘unprecedented’ surge in COVID-19 cases, yet hospitalizations aren’t rising as quickly

At a Wednesday briefing, Montgomery County Commissioners Chair Valerie Arkoosh said she’s ‘cautiously optimistic’ of a peak in two weeks.

4 years ago

People wearing face masks walk through Philadelphia
Health

COVID cases ‘skyrocketing’ in Philadelphia, says health commissioner

COVID-19 cases are rapidly rising and Philadelphia’s health commissioner is warning people to be boosted and either double mask or wear an n-95.

4 years ago

FILE - Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy V. Ferguson court case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011.  Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling, is being considered for a posthumous pardon. The Creole man of color died with a conviction still on his record for refusing to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans in 1892.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)
Courts & Law

Governor pardons Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling

Keith Plessy, whose great-great-grandfather was Plessy’s cousin, called the event “truly a blessed day for our ancestors … and for children not yet born.”

4 years ago

Police confer at the scene of a fire on North 23rd Street
Community

‘I feel broken’: 8 children among 12 people killed in Fairmount rowhouse fire

City property records indicate the Philadelphia Housing Authority owns the single-family home, which had been converted into two apartments.

4 years ago

People shelter in the House gallery as pro-Trump insurrectionists try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol
Politics & Policy

‘We were trapped’: Trauma of Jan. 6 lingers for lawmakers

In interviews with The Associated Press a year later, many of the lawmakers recall that they thought they were going to die.

4 years ago

The homepage of the Central Bucks School District's website
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Central Bucks School District, in deep need of substitutes, urges community members to apply

Staff shortages forced the 17,000-student district to close Monday. It’s asking people with bachelor’s degrees to apply for teaching and support jobs.

4 years ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists yell on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol
Politics & Policy

Former N.J. Gov. Christie Whitman leading efforts to bolster ‘fragile’ U.S. democracy

Well before Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, former N.J. Gov. Christine Todd Whitman was sounding the alarm.

4 years ago

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