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Officials: Police-involved shooting leaves 1 man dead in Vineland, New Jersey

Officials say one officer of the Vineland Police Department fired his service weapon, fatally wounding an unidentified male.

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People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021 is set to be inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on “Saturday Night Live,” but the surging omicron variant of the coronavirus means there won’t be a live audience to see it happen.

Arts & Entertainment

‘SNL’ ditches audience, limits cast and crew amid omicron

The sketch comedy show announced Saturday afternoon that the night’s episode would tape without a live audience and with only limited cast and crew.

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Free rapid, at-home test kits were available at a city-run vaccine clinic in the Harrowgate neighborhood Saturday.

Health

Philly launches COVID test giveaways at Saturday vaccine clinic. 9 more are scheduled next week

Participants were limited to two free kits, each of which contains two tests. The goal is to increase testing amid the current COVID surge.

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President Joe Biden arrives at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. Today is the anniversary of Neilia and Naomi Biden's death

Politics & Policy

Biden marks anniversary of 1972 car crash that killed wife

President Joe Biden on Saturday is commemorating the 49th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and infant daughter.

5 years ago

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines sit ready for use at a Dallas County Health and Human Services drive up vaccine site in Mesquite, Texas, Nov. 30, 2021. While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc in the U.S. There is much that is unknown about omicron, including whether it is more contagious than previous versions, makes people sicker or more easily thwarts the vaccine or breaks through the immunity that people get from a bout of COVID-19

Politics & Policy

OSHA vaccine mandate penalties to start Jan. 10

The federal agency separately says there will be no citations of companies regarding its testing requirements before Feb. 9.

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Health

Philly company Spark Therapeutics investing $575M toward gene therapy center on Drexel’s campus

Construction is set for late 2022. The center aims to bring gene therapy experts together to treat conditions like blindness, neurodegenerative disease.

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Health

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The COVID-19 variant omicron now reported in New Castle and Montgomery Counties

The variant has infected four people in New Castle County, Delaware and one person in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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File photo: A worker passes a Dominion Voting ballot scanner while setting up a polling location at an elementary school in Gwinnett County, Ga., outside of Atlanta on Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Politics & Policy

New front in GOP’s election ‘investigation’ draws protests

State lawyers asked a court Friday to stop a digital data exchange scheduled for Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania’s sparsely populated Fulton County.

5 years ago

In this 2020 photo, COVID-19 test kits are laid out on a table at the testing site at 2600 Mt. Ephraim Ave., Camden, New Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Health

Free at-home COVID tests kits available in New Jersey

You do not need an email address and no credit card is required. Officials say the new program is to increase access and availability of tests.

5 years ago

A person fills up a jug of water from a faucet.

Health

New Pennsylvania funding will connect more homes with PFAS-tainted wells to public water

More than $15.8 million in PFAS remediation grants were awarded to local municipalities and water authorities in Bucks and Montgomery counties.

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D.C. is sending $30M to fast-track cleanup of toxic soil in Philly

The federal dollars will allow the EPA to move forward with remedying an environmental injustice.

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A BinaxNOW rapid COVID-19 test made by Abbott Laboratories rests on a table in the room where student-athletes at Pacific Lutheran are tested three times a week, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Tacoma, Wash.

Health

Philly Health Department offering free at-home COVID tests at vaccine clinic Saturday

Residents can collect two free rapid COVID-19 test kits per person at Saturday morning’s vaccine clinic at Community Academy of Philadelphia.

5 years ago

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Health

After a Philly student dies of complications from COVID-19, teachers ask for a temporary return to virtual

While it’s not clear how the student contracted COVID, and minors tend to have much milder coronavirus symptoms on the whole, the current wave of new cases has many on edge.

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