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Philly neighborhoods are fighting over development. A new tool may help
The free online tool grapples with the question that looms over many development-related clashes: How to grow a neighborhood without disrupting its fabric.
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New museum on the Mall, Chestnut Hill home fest, and streaming Mozart in this week’s ‘Things to Do’
April 29 - May 2: The week’s events include roller skating at Dilworth Park, drive-in movies in Wilmington, and an evening stroll in a Jenkintown botanical garden.
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‘We are not subjects of study!’: Protesters march on Penn Museum to decry handling of MOVE remains
The marchers called for an investigation into how bones thought to be from children killed in the 1985 bombing ended up floating around Ivy League universities for decades.
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Wary Supreme Court weighs Pa. student’s Snapchat profanity case
The current dispute stems from Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era case of a high school in Des Moines, Iowa.
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NBC10
Delaware police officer dies days after being attacked while responding to fight
Cpl. Keith Heacook, 54, was declared "clinically dead" Wednesday at 12:48 p.m. at a Baltimore hospital, Delmar Police Chief Ivan Barkley said.
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‘We need to adapt’: SEPTA launches $25 million bus system redesign
SEPTA riders may encounter consultants surveying riders about their experiences commuting as soon as Monday.
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StateImpact Pennsylvania
SCOTUS hears arguments in eminent domain case involving PennEast pipeline project
The 116-mile pipeline would ship Marcellus Shale gas from Luzerne County in Northeast Pennsylvania across the Delaware River to Mercer County, New Jersey.
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U.S. indicts 3 on hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia
The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday in the death of a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year.
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Pa. coronavirus update: Montco cases on the decline, vaccine clinic locations shuffle
With the Johnson & Johnson vaccine back online, Montgomery County is changing some COVID-19 vaccination sites.
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Federal lawsuit filed against New Castle County over police killing of Lymond Moses in Wilmington
Police say Lymond Moses drove at a high rate of speed ‘directly’ at officers, but a lawsuit says bodycam footage undermines that account and shows officers were in no danger.
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N.J. coronavirus update: Day and sleepaway camps will be back this summer
This summer, New Jersey’s sleepaway camps will be allowed to reopen. State health officials said there were no COVID outbreaks at day camps last summer.
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Philadelphia high school students offer reaction to guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial
WHYY asked students from its Media Lab how they were feeling about the Chauvin verdict. Here are some of their responses.
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AP sources: Feds search Rudy Giuliani’s NYC home, office
Agents searched Giuliani’s home on Madison Avenue and his office on Park Avenue, people familiar with the investigation told the Associated Press.
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Pa. moves forward on plan to merge 6 state universities into 2
The plan calls for three universities in the northeastern part of the state to merge, as well as three schools in the west.
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Residents along 52nd Street expected the worst. Post-Chauvin verdict, there’s relief.
Saj Blackwell, a partner in WHYY’s News and Information Community Exchange, spoke to her neighbors along 52nd Street about the relief they’re feeling after the Chauvin verdict
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