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File photo: Philadelphia School District students at Samuel Powel Elementary School and Science Leadership Academy Middle School returned to in-person learning on August 31, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Safety, cultural competence, real world learning: Philly students speak out about school needs

At a town hall Tuesday, Philly students shared what they want to see in their schools and from the next superintendent, amid a search for the district’s new leader.

5 years ago

Alt Right demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017
Courts & Law

Jury awards $26M in damages for Unite the Right violence

A jury has ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay $26 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville.

5 years ago

'GoPuff keep saying that we make between $15-25 an hour,' said Candace Hinson, 29, who works at the company's Manayunk facility. 'They do not tell the media that they do not reimburse us for mileage. They do not give us anything for gas. They don't cover car repair.'  (Liz Tung/WHYY)
Money

‘We built this company’: Workers at Philly-based Gopuff mount one-day strike

A common complaint among protesters outside the company’s headquarters in Northern Liberties was that Gopuff workers earn much less than the company advertises.

5 years ago

In front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art dancers perform a portion of the Nutcracker during the 100th Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Community

Philly announces road closures and route for 2021 Thanksgiving Day Parade

The Thanksgiving Day Parade — the nation’s oldest of its kind — steps off at 9 a.m., with 6abc’s pre-show coverage starting on TV at 8:30 a.m.

5 years ago

Mural Arts Executive Director Jane Golden opens the dedication ceremony for a George Floyd tribute mural in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood. The mural was painted by local artist Randal Whitfield on the wall of Tang Pharmacy at 5th Street and West Olney Avenue
Community

‘Never Forgotten’: George Floyd mural returns bigger and better after offensive graffiti

Created in partnership with Mural Arts, the 110-foot artwork in Olney is a replacement for a smaller version that was defaced by white supremacist graffiti.

5 years ago

Former Bordentown Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr.
Courts & Law

Hate crime trial for former N.J. police chief will go to the jury on Monday

The defense only called one witness, an FBI agent on the case who called it “atypical.” Federal prosecutors and Frank Nucera Jr.’s attorneys will give closing arguments on Mon

5 years ago

The Queen stage in Wilmington, Del.
Arts & Entertainment

Wilmington’s Queen, other Delaware concert venues share $30 million of federal aid

Delaware concert venues like Wilmington’s The Queen will share more than $30 million in federal grants through the Save our Stages Act.

5 years ago

Judge Lori Dumas
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

With incumbent’s concession, Dems have flipped a Pa. Commonwealth Court seat

Dumas will become the sole person of color on the 10-member court. That makes her just the second out of 31 judges on all three Pennsylvania appellate courts.

5 years ago

A woman makes her way through the 30th Street Station
Health

Vaccines making Thanksgiving easier, but COVID hot spots remain

More than 500,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 since last Thanksgiving, for an overall death toll of over 770,000.

5 years ago

A police officer drives in Philadelphia
Courts & Law

Philly police dispatchers indicted for collecting pandemic unemployment, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say the employees fraudulently collected Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, while also collecting their city paychecks.

5 years ago

Vacant retail buildings in downtown Norristown
Weather

Montgomery County declares Code Blue ahead of bitter cold temperatures

The Code Blue will be in effect from 8 p.m. Tuesday through 8 a.m. Wednesday, when either the temperature or wind chill is expected to be below 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

5 years ago

Storage is shown at the Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery in Detroit, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The world is awash in oil, there's little demand for it and we're running out of places to put it. That in a nutshell explains this week's strange and unprecedented action in the market for crude oil futures contracts, where traders essentially offered to pay someone else to deal with the oil they were due to have delivered next month.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Politics & Policy

U.S. to release 50 million barrels of oil to ease energy costs

The move is aimed at global energy markets, but also at U.S. voters who are coping with higher inflation and rising prices ahead of Thanksgiving and winter holiday travel.

5 years ago

A tanker ship being loaded with LNG
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

New Jersey towns join push to block ‘bomb trains’

Critics say that transport of the fuel in tank cars — dubbed “bomb trains” — through densely populated areas exposes populations to a risk of catastrophic explosions.

5 years ago

Johnny Bobbitt Jr., (left), Kate McClure, and Mark D'Amico pose at a gas station
Courts & Law

N.J. man in GoFundMe scam pleads guilty to federal charge

Mark D'Amico, his ex-girlfriend Katelyn McClure, and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had made up a story that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, prosecutors say.

5 years ago

Customers line up at the meat counter
Keystone Crossroads
Money

From the pump to potatoes: Inflation hits home for the holidays

Going into the holidays, some families have been able to hedge against higher consumer costs. But, for others, the economic anxiety is real.

5 years ago

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