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File photo: Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer holds the trophy after Rutgers defeated Arizona State 64-45 in the regional final of the NCAA women's basketball tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Monday, March 26, 2007. Stringer has announced her retirement, Saturday, April 30, 2022, after 50 years in college basketball. She finished with 1,055 wins, fourth all-time among Division I women’s basketball coaches.
Education

Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer announces retirement

She led the Scarlet Knights to the NCAA title game in 2007 when they lost to Tennessee.

4 years ago

A police officer inspects a destroyed area following a Russian missiles attack on Thursday in Fastov, south of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Politics & Policy

Ukrainians plead for Mariupol rescue; Russian advance crawls

Ukrainian forces are fighting to hold off a Russian advance aimed at capturing an eastern industrial region along with Ukraine’s last holdout in the southern city of Mairupol.

4 years ago

Virginia Maksymowicz holds one of the cast-plastic tools she created for her sculpture, ''Tools of the Trade,'' now installed in the North Waiting Room of William H. Gray III 30th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

First new sculpture in 70 years for Philly’s 30th Street Station

Amtrak built a wall on wheels to accommodate Virginia Maksymowicz’s “Tools of the Trade,” honoring hand labor in the national rail system.

4 years ago

Cars and trucks are visible driving northbound on the New Jersey turnpike on a sunny day.
Courts & Law

New Jersey launches license plate cameras to combat soaring car theft rate

New Jersey will use $10 million in federal funds to install license plate readers along highways and on police cars in hopes of tracking down stolen vehicles.

4 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid looks into the stands in an NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Arts & Entertainment

Sixers’ Embiid has broken orbital bone, as East semis loom

Embiid was injured late in Philadelphia’s victory at Toronto on Thursday night, when the 76ers were closing out the Raptors and finishing off a six-game win.

4 years ago

A Philadelphia Gas Works sign
Politics & Policy

A budget battle: Clean energy advocates say PGW is seeking to block transparency in budgetary proceedings

PGW has requested changes to public participation in budgetary processes calling them “overburdensome” and “inefficient.”

4 years ago

Philadelphians, including Mayor Jim Kenney, joined hands to raise awareness of sexual voice at the WOAR Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence at their Hands Around City Hall event on April 29, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Circle honoring victims of sexual assault closes out Philly advocacy event

The event came as Sexual Assault Awareness Month winds down.

4 years ago

A pedestrian passes the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Money

Tech stocks sink again, Nasdaq has worst month since 2008

The Nasdaq fell 4% for the second time this week and finished April down 13.3%, its biggest monthly loss since 2008.

4 years ago

A sepia-toned photograph shows an older man standing with a young boy in front of a fountain.
Community

An Ephrata church that became a haven for USSR refugees decades ago now plans to help fleeing Ukrainians

Ilya Tlumach was 7 when he arrived in Lancaster County in 1989 from western Ukraine. His family was fleeing religious persecution under the former Soviet Union.

4 years ago

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File photo: Students from W. B. Saul High School and Samuel Gompers Elementary School helped the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation plant black gum trees on the Belmont Plateau on Arbor Day, April 29, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

On Arbor Day, iconic Philly tree replaced with three new ones

On Friday – Arbor Day – groups of students helped plant the new trees, which in time may grow to be 80 feet tall.

4 years ago

Former Tennis player Boris Becker arrives at Southwark Crown Court for sentencing in London, Friday, April 29, 2022. Becker was found guilty earlier of dodging his obligation to disclose financial information to settle his debts
Courts & Law

Former tennis star Boris Becker gets 2 1/2 years in prison for bankruptcy offenses

The three-time Wimbledon champion was found to have transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars after his June 2017 bankruptcy from his business account to other accounts.

4 years ago

The Family Law Center in Pittsburgh is seen on Wednesday, March 16, 2022.
Politics & Policy

An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns

The AP identified several concerns about the technology, including questions about its reliability and its potential to harden racial disparities in the child welfare system.

4 years ago

A silhouette of a health worker administering a COVID-19 vaccine
Health

FDA sets June meetings on COVID vaccines for youngest kids

The meeting announcement follows months of frustration from families impatient for a chance to vaccinate their little children.

4 years ago

Bright flames are visible in a building that is partially destroyed.
Community

Relatives: Former U.S. Marine killed fighting in Ukraine

According to relatives, a former U.S. Marine has been killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in what’s the first known death of a U.S. citizen fighting in Ukraine.

4 years ago

Clean-up crews work at the explosion site in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday, April 29, 2022. Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday evening.
Community

Ukraine slams Kyiv attack amid new Mariupol rescue effort

Ukraine’s leader has accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

4 years ago

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