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Flooding in Eastwick during Tropical Storm Isaias in 2020
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Eastwick residents want Biden’s infrastructure plan to fund Philly’s first climate migration

The infrastructure bill signed into law creates aid opportunities for communities like Eastwick harmed by flooding.

4 years ago

FILE PHOTO: Officers at the Cumberland County Prison walk the halls, Thursday, April 3, 2003, in Carlisle, Pa. (Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo)
Courts & Law
WITF

Coroner says prisoner at SCI Camp Hill died by suicide

A prisoners' rights advocate notes, this is the fourth prisoner death in Pa. in the past eight days.

4 years ago

Volunteers wearing balloons lead Philadelphia's 100th Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Courts & Law

After Wisconsin tragedy, Philly police are confident in their Thanksgiving Parade safety plan

After police say a man intentionally plowed through a crowd of holiday parade marchers in Wisconsin, Philly law enforcement say Thursday’s Thanksgiving event will be safe.

4 years ago

Rev. Al Sharpton speaks outside Legislative Hall in Dover Monday afternoon in support of legislation that would open up police misconduct records to public scrutiny. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Rev. Sharpton pushes for Delaware police accountability bill in Dover rally

Efforts to make police misconduct records more available to the public in Delaware got a boost from civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton Monday afternoon.

4 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner wipes his eyes after speaking about the shooting of a pregnant woman over the weekend. (Tom Mac Donald/WHYY)
Courts & Law

‘Extremely disturbing’: Philly approaches 500 people murdered in 2021

Philadelphia’s District Attorney said he is worried police do not have enough resources to solve and investigate a historic number of murders.

4 years ago

Keidy Ventura receives her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Health

N.J. coronavirus update: State pushes boosters, especially in under-vaccinated areas

State Police will be helping to set up clinics in Burlington and Somerset counties in the coming weeks. A Gloucester County site has been operating since September.

4 years ago

Electrical power generation lines are seen below storm clouds in a rural field near Newtown, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Money
State Impact Pennsylvania

With energy prices high, Pennsylvanians urged to review utility options

The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects households that use natural gas for heat will spend 30 percent more than they spent last winter on average.

4 years ago

Republican Sean Parnell launched his U.S. Senate campaign on May 11. (Lucy Perkins/90.5 WESA)
Politics & Policy
WESA

GOP Senate candidate Sean Parnell ends campaign after losing custody bid

Hours after losing a bid to obtain sole custody of his three children, Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Sean Parnell announced he is suspending his campaign.

4 years ago

Hold for Business Photo-- Swayne Hall--A Norfolk Southern freight train hauling coal makes it way through downtown Pittsburgh Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Politics & Policy

Largest coal-fired power plants in Pa. to close after new wastewater rule

Those that intend to close include two of Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plants, Keystone and Conemaugh outside Pittsburgh.

4 years ago

Solome Walker looks down at a bandage on her arm
Health

How COVID shots for kids help prevent dangerous new variants

When the virus spreads unseen and unabated, health experts say, more people contract it and variants may arise.

4 years ago

Oct. 28, 2021: Gov. Phil Murphy, right, at a clinic for COVID-19 vaccination booster shots in Trenton. (Rich Hundley/NJ Spotlight News)
Health
NJ Spotlight News

Health officials stress COVID-19 booster shot before the holidays

All adults who received the initial vaccine are now eligible to further boost their immunity, CDC says.

4 years ago

An
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

What we know about the firm hired by the GOP to review Pennsylvania’s 2020 election

Taxpayers will pony up $270,000 to Envoy Sage, which says it has exposed “fraud among non-governmental organizations.” Little else is known about the group.

4 years ago

A family photo hangs on a wall in the dining room
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

What you need to know about the killing of Christian Hall by Pennsylvania State Police

Nearly a year after his death, Hall's parents are calling for a new investigation.

4 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman stands at a podium
Politics & Policy

A Pa. state lawmaker hasn’t become governor in 70 years. Jake Corman hopes to be the exception

Harrisburg insiders haven’t fared well in bids for governor in recent decades. Jake Corman is trying to break that mold.

4 years ago

Deputy Attorney General Mark Denney
Courts & Law

Del. expands mandatory investigations of police use of force in cases of serious injury

A special division of the Attorney General’s Office was previously only required to investigate use of deadly force by police.

4 years ago

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