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Trucks and cars travel down the highway.
Urban Planning

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.

5 years ago

Simone Biles watches gymnasts perform after she exited the team
Health

‘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

5 years ago

Edna Cruz makes coffee while wearing a mask inside her cafe
Health

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.

5 years ago

A car is pictured behind crime scene tape
Courts & Law
6abc

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.

5 years ago

A a registered nurse works on a computer while assisting a COVID-19 patient
Health

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.

5 years ago

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A close-up of a Pennsylvania congressional map.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Will 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.

5 years ago

A worker replaces a main electrical service line on a home
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

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.

5 years ago

Parents gather outside a Central Bucks school board meeting to protest or defend the board’s decision to open schools in the fall without requiring protective face masks. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

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.

5 years ago

FILE- In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo the logo for Alphabet appears on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. S&P Dow Jones Indices is shuffling the line-up of three of the 11 groups that make up the benchmark S&P 500 index. On Monday, 20 companies in the index including famous names like Facebook, Alphabet and Netflix will find a new home. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Money

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.

5 years ago

Angela McIver’s exit from the city’s school board leaves Mayor Jim Kenney with the task of finding a replacement weeks before the fall semester begins for public school students. (City of Philadelphia / Mayor’s Office)
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Former Philadelphia school board member Angela McIver addresses sudden resignation, board effectiveness

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.

5 years ago

Prosecutor Dan Goldberg points to defendant Nathaniel Rowland's car circling the block as Samantha Josephson waits for an Uber while delivering closing arguments during Rowland's trial, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Richland County Circuit Court in Columbia, S.C. Rowland was convicted Tuesday for the 2019 abduction and murder of the 21-year-old college student, who mistook his car for her Uber ride. (Tracy Glantz/The State via AP, Pool)
Courts & Law

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.

5 years ago

210727-Canton- Robert Aaron Long enters Superior Court of Cherokee County in Canton on Tuesday morning, July 27, 2021, for his plea hearing in the spa shootings. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Courts & Law

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.

5 years ago

U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn becomes emotional as he testifies before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021 at the Canon House Office Building in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Oliver Contreras for The New York Times)
Politics & Policy

‘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.

5 years ago

An oil spill cleanup sock in a small waterway leading to Chester Creek
Courts & Law

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.”

5 years ago

Alejandro Garcia, 16, receives his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Health

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.

5 years ago

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