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Transportation funding report could launch years of debate in Pa.
The report comes amid a stalemate over increasing funding for highway construction in Pennsylvania, and as states increasingly experiment with a vehicle-miles-traveled fee.
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‘OK not to be OK’: Mental health takes top role at Olympics
Biles cited mental health struggles for pulling out of the gymnastics team competition and the individual all-around, highlighting a discussion coursing through sports
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No mask mandate, but Pennsylvanians urged to follow guidance
Wolf's comments came just before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed course Tuesday on some masking guidelines.
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Hit-and-run driver who ran over woman twice in Center City arrested in Montco: Police
Police say the victim, who had just left work at a Center City restaurant, later died of her injuries.
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Penn researching ways to avoid side effects of key treatment for serious COVID cases
A type of steroid is the only treatment proven to improve the outcome of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. But it can have major side effects, like elevated blood sugar.
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Listen 1:33Will this round of Pa. redistricting be another all-out war? It’s all in the details
Being willing to split towns and counties might actually be more fair, mapping experts argue — even though it goes against old school conventional wisdom.
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How repairing homes reduced crime in Philly neighborhoods
New research published in the Journal of American Medical Association found that repairing even one home can reduce crime by 21.9% on the block.
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Tensions over COVID-19 school safety plans boil over in Bucks County
Central Bucks parents and pediatricians clashed Tuesday night over the school district’s plan not to require students, teachers, and staff to wear masks this fall.
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3 tech giants report combined profits of more than $50B
Three tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet — reported combined profits of more than $50 billion in the April-June quarter.
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Angela McIver was one of Mayor Jim Kenney’s picks to sit on Philadelphia’s Board of Education after the state-run School Reform Commission dissolved four years ago.
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Man convicted of killing N.J. woman who mistook his car for Uber
A South Carolina man was convicted Tuesday of the 2019 abduction and murder of a 21-year-old college student from Robbinsville, New Jersey.
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Man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life
Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death penalty in the four other deaths, which are being prosecuted in a different county.
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‘This is how I’m going to die’: Police officers testify on Jan. 6 insurrection
The four officers gave emotional, occasionally angry, accounts of the attack, in which they were beaten and verbally abused as the mob of Trump’ supporters overwhelmed them.
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Delco DA Stollsteimer announces criminal charges in Brookhaven fuel spill
District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says a Lee Transport Systems employee making a delivery allegedly caused an environmental “catastrophe.”
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Burlington County hosting pop-up COVID vaccine clinics for students
With little more than a month before school begins, Burlington County is partnering with school districts to get students fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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