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Afghan refugees arrive at PHL airport.
Politics & Policy

Philly welcomes over 500 Afghan evacuees, and more are coming soon

Mayor Jim Kenney said the city anticipates “Operation Allies Refuge PHL” to pick up speed in the coming days. Here’s how you can help.

5 years ago

New Orleans Police detectives Adam Buckner, left, and Alexander Reiter, look over debris from a building that collapsed during Hurricane Ida in New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Hurricane Ida knocked out power to all of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities on a deadly path through the Gulf Coast that is still unfolding and promises more destruction. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Weather

Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, leaves the grid a shambles

Ida’s landfall came on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier, about 40 miles west of where Category 3 Katrina first struck land.

5 years ago

A destroyed vehicle is seen inside a house after a U.S. drone strike
Community

U.S. says drone kills IS bombers targeting Kabul airport

The strike came as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul’s international airport.

5 years ago

President Joe Biden watches as a Navy carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak
Politics & Policy

Biden travels to Dover to pay respects to U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan

Biden traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to meet privately with the families of those killed and then attend the “dignified transfer” of the fallen troops.

5 years ago

Trucks and cars move northbound on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

It’s time to tell our regional planning overlords to stop throwing money at highways

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s Connections2050 plan could be our chance to change the math on highway spending.

5 years ago

Officer Hayden Remphrey
Education

Cherry Hill P.D. sends officer to ’20th grade’ in Facebook post about online safety

It’s a visual aid on how to protect the identity of children while sharing those pictures of the first day of school.

5 years ago

Jabina Coleman (center) surrounded by members of the Breastfeeding Awareness and Empowerment Cafe (BAE Cafe) , a group for Black birthing mothers in PA to connect and support each other through their birthing journeys. (Photo courtesy of Jabina Coleman)
Health

Racial gaps in breastfeeding are closing. Philly area Black birth workers are one reason

Black women historically had the lowest rates of breastfeeding initiation, but new data shows that’s changing. Community support makes the difference.

5 years ago

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Nick Ludwig, Delco Skatepark Coalition board member, doing a boneless at Grays Ferry Skatepark in Philadelphia
Community

Delco has only three skateparks. Meet the group that wants to change that

The group has a mission: to convince municipalities to construct at least five new adaptive and inclusive skateparks across the county.

5 years ago

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew reacts in the second half of an NFL preseason football game against the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021
Arts & Entertainment

Eagles trade 2022 pick to Jaguars for Gardner Minshew

Minshew joins a QB room that already has starter Jalen Hurts and veteran backup Joe Flacco.

5 years ago

President Joe Biden listens as he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington
Politics & Policy

U.S. airstrike targets Islamic State members in Afghanistan

The attack came amid what the White House called indications that IS planned to strike again as the U.S.-led evacuation from Kabul airport moved into its final days.

5 years ago

Afghanistan refugees arrive at Philadelphia International Airport
Community
6ABC

Hundreds of refugees from Afghanistan arrive at Philadelphia International Airport

Philadelphia is just one of two selected cities to receive refugees from Afghanistan.

5 years ago

(6ABC)
Courts & Law
6ABC

Girl, 7, dead after shooting following football game at Academy Park High School

A football game between Academy Park and Pennsbury High School had just ended when shots rang out.

5 years ago

Mosquito (James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)
Health

‘Prime time for getting bitten’: State and local officials target mosquitoes preemptively to thwart West Nile virus

No one is sounding the alarm: It’s been an average year so far for West Nile cases in mosquitoes. But wet, warm conditions might mean trouble ahead.

5 years ago

Maudy Mendez, owner of Maudy's Hispanic Cuisine located on East Market Street in Georgetown, takes a brief break from cooking on Wednesday.    (Butch Comegys/Delaware State News)
Community

Post pandemic, Latino businesses in southern Delaware strive to regain footing

Latino-owned businesses have tended to receive less support from the government and have had a harder time recovering from pandemic-related losses.

5 years ago

An overturned lifeguard stand warns swimmers that the Park Place beach in Ocean City, New Jersey is unguarded because of a staffing shortage. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Community

Jersey Shore worker shortage worsens as Labor Day approaches

Staffing issues at the shore are getting worse as students go back to school and the few foreign students brought in for the summer on temporary visas return home.

5 years ago

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