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Two pups tug on the same toy during Puppy Bowl XVII.
Community

Meet the Delaware Valley rescue pups competing in Puppy Bowl 2022

On Sunday, Feb. 13, Puppy Bowl XVIII will feature 16 dogs from animal rescue organizations across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

4 years ago

In this Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, photo, a man uses a cell phone in New Orleans. With suicides on the rise, the government wants to make the national crisis hotline easier to reach. Once implemented, people will just need to dial 988 to seek help. Currently, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline uses a 10-digit number, 800-273-TALK (8255). Callers are routed to one of 163 crisis centers, where counselors answered 2.2 million calls last year
Health

A 988 crisis line is coming. Mental health services ask: How do we stretch even more?

The aim is to make it easier for those having mental health issues to access intervention services and, ideally, avoid interactions with police.

4 years ago

FILE - Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks before President Joe Biden signs the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Politics & Policy

Last straw: Fed-up Arizona Democrats censure Sen. Sinema

Sinema is growing increasingly isolated from some of her party’s most influential officials and donors after helping to scuttle voting rights legislation

4 years ago

File photo: (From left) Regina King, and Ian Alexander, Jr. in Backstage Creations Giving Suites at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Arnold Turner/Invision for Backstage Creations/AP Images)
Arts & Entertainment

Ian Alexander Jr., only child of Regina King, dies at age 26

King said in a statement that her son was 'such a bright light who cared so deeply about the happiness of others.'

4 years ago

(6abc)
Community

Don’t approach lab monkey missing after Montour County crash, people told

State troopers urged people Saturday not to look for or capture the monkey after a crash the day before on a state highway near an Interstate 80 exit in Montour County.

4 years ago

Oronde McClain. (Courtesy of Oronde McClain and the McClain Foundation)
Community

No longer a victim: How one survivor dealt with Philadelphia’s gun violence

Oronde McClain, who was shot in the head at age 10 in Philadelphia, shares his story with WHYY host Cherri Gregg.

4 years ago

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Police secure the scene outside a six story residential building, left, where two NYPD officers where shot responding to a domestic disturbance call in Harlem, Friday Jan. 21, 2022, in New York
Community

1 NYPD officer killed in Harlem shooting, suspect from Allentown

The officers had been responding to a call Friday about an argument between a woman and her adult son.

4 years ago

Water main break in Kensington on Jan. 18, 2022. (6abc)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Busted water mains flood Philly streets as city fails to hit pipe replacement goals

Philadelphia Water Department officials defended a 2018 rate increase by saying it would help the city meet water main replacement goals.

4 years ago

Zoë Patchell of the Delaware Advocacy Cannabis Network hopes lawmakers ''finally listen to the majority of their constituents.'' (Courtesy of Zoë Patchell)
Politics & Policy

Advocates for recreational marijuana in Delaware ‘optimistic’ this is the year

Gov. Carney opposes legalization but if the bill receives the required three-fifths majority to pass, that would be enough to override a veto.

4 years ago

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to a reporter at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
Politics & Policy

McConnell responds to uproar over comment about Black voters

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the criticism he received over a comment made about African American voters is outrageous and offensive.

4 years ago

A worker processes mail-in ballots at the Cumberland County Bureau of Elections on Nov. 4, 2020. (Cumberland County Bureau of Elections)
Politics & Policy
WITF

Election experts say Pennsylvania’s voting process is well-protected from ballot tampering

State election law and Dept. of State guidance show ballots are counted and re-counted, a process that's open to a representative for each candidate and party.

4 years ago

File photo: Comedian Louie Anderson appears in Los Angeles in July 1987.   (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
Arts & Entertainment

Louie Anderson, comic, Emmy winner for ‘Baskets,’ dies at 68

Anderson’s publicist Glenn Schwartz says the comedian died Friday in Las Vegas.

4 years ago

Pharmacist Kenni Clark prepares a booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at City of Lawrence's
Health

Philly delays vaccine mandate for city workers (again) due to union disputes

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has indefinitely postponed the vaccine mandate for the city’s unionized employees.

4 years ago

(Oak Leaf Media/ Courtesy University City District)
PlanPhilly
Money

Wanted: After pandemic hiring crunch, SEPTA hiring hundreds of people to fill open jobs

The transit agency is on a hiring binge that it hopes will restore its workforce after two years of pandemic-related attrition and hiring freezes.

4 years ago

People attend the March for Life rally on the National Mall in Washington, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. The March for Life, for decades an annual protest against abortion, arrives this year as the Supreme Court has indicated it will allow states to impose tighter restrictions on abortion with a ruling in the coming months. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Courts & Law

Anti-abortion protesters optimistic at March for Life in DC

Thousands of anti-abortion protesters marched in the nation’s capital with a growing sense of optimism about the prospects this year of a sweeping rollback of abortion rights.

4 years ago

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