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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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A closeup of Philadelphia City Hall.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Closing Philly’s digital divide will take influencers — the offline, neighborhood kind

One in six Philadelphians remains unconnected even after years of public and private sector efforts. More effort is needed on the ground in the city’s neighborhoods.

5 years ago

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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 years ago

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