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the Delaware River
Courts & Law

Camden’s 2021 crime numbers are flat, but still decreased

Camden continues a trend of low crime numbers, though the numbers for 2021 are flat when compared to the previous year.

4 years ago

Sean Forman, president of Sports Reference LLC. (Courtesy of Sean Forman)
Money

Why a Philly business decided to sit out the sports betting boom

Sports Reference LLC could have parlayed its millions of users into millions of dollars from sportsbooks. The company’s president explains why it didn’t.

4 years ago

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Catherine Hicks is sworn in as the president of the Philadelphia NAACP.
Community

Catherine Hicks marks six months at the helm of Philadelphia’s NAACP chapter

Hicks, who is also publisher of Philadelphia Sunday Sun, reflected on that time and what’s ahead for the chapter with WHYY’s Cherri Gregg.

4 years ago

Listen 7:00
US President Joe Biden addresses a press conference. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
Community

Deadly Fairmount blaze moved President Biden to call Philly fire union leader

Biden called the head of Philadelphia’s fire union Monday night to discuss the devastating rowhouse fire and future funding for the city’s Fire Department.

4 years ago

In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department announced the charges against Rhodes on Thursday
Courts & Law

Justice Department charges Oath Keepers head with Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

Stewart Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

4 years ago

People view the Supreme Court building from behind security fencing on Capitol Hill
Courts & Law

Supreme Court halts Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. businesses

At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S.

4 years ago

(Courtesy of Island Waterpark)
Arts & Entertainment

Ground is broken on $100M indoor water park in Atlantic City

Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein has broken ground on a $100 million indoor water park on the Atlantic City Boardwalk

4 years ago

M. Elizabeth Magill poses for a photo
Education

Lawyer who once clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg to serve as Penn’s next president

M. Elizabeth Magill will succeed Amy Gutmann, Penn’s longest-serving president. Magill will join Penn from UVA, where she serves as a provost.

4 years ago

Nicholas Lattazi posted photos of himself outside the Capitol on TikTok on January 6. He was also seen entering the building. (U.S. District Court documents)
Courts & Law

A fourth Delaware man is charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

More than a year after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a Millsboro man has been charged with trespass and disorderly conduct inside it on Jan. 6, 2021.

4 years ago

Vivek Shandas, a professor of climate adaptation at Portland State University, takes a temperature reading of almost 106 degrees in downtown Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, in Portland, Ore. People have headed to cooling centers as the Pacific Northwest began sweltering under another major, multiday heat wave. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
Weather

The heat stays on: Earth hits 6th warmest year on record

Global temperatures, averaged over a 10-year period to take out natural variability, are nearly 2 degrees (1.1 degrees Celsius) warmer than 140 years ago, their data shows.

4 years ago

The former PES refinery site in South Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly hits a ‘crossroads’ of environmental justice at ex-PES oil refinery

Hilco, the shuttered refinery’s new owner, is seeking permits to continue to store and sell petroleum — and surrounding communities feel betrayed.

4 years ago

Many coronaviruses in the form of a 3D illustration.
Health

COVID-19 pill rollout stymied by shortages as omicron rages

The problem is that production is not yet at full strength and that the pill considered to be far superior, Pfizer's, takes six to eight months to manufacture.

4 years ago

David McCormick poses for photos
Politics & Policy

Ex-hedge fund CEO enters topsy-turvy Senate GOP primary race in Pa.

The Republican primary field is in upheaval with the exit of the Trump-endorsed candidate, Sean Parnell, creating a vacuum still being filled by new candidates.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks from a podium
Politics & Policy

Biden to double free COVID tests, deploy federal ‘surge’ team to N.J.

The teams will support Henry Ford Hospital, University Hospital in Newark, the University of New Mexico hospital, Coney Island Hospital, and Rhode Island Hospital.

4 years ago

The scene of a house fire in West Deptford
Community
6abc

Woman killed, 2 homes collapse after fire in West Deptford

Police said the victim's family members who made it out of the home — a 57-year-old man, a 26-year-old man, a 31-year-old woman, and a 1-month-old boy — were treated by EMS.

4 years ago

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