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Delaware Technical Community College Wilmington
Education

Delaware SEED scholarship expansion could help hundreds more students

Legislation to expand SEED scholarship availability could help more Delaware students earn degrees at community colleges.

5 years ago

Rebecca Bryan of Rutgers School of Nursing sits with 86-year-old Turner Pittman
Community

J&J ‘pause’ is also halting efforts to vaccinate homebound New Jerseyans

The federal recommendation to pause use of the J&J vaccine came as efforts were ramping up to inoculate N.J.’s more than 11,000 homebound people.

5 years ago

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Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Penn Museum to repatriate skulls of Black Americans and slaves from Cuba

The Morton Collection of more than 1,000 skulls was assembled by a racist 19th-century scientist. Penn Museum will give them back.

5 years ago

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Protesters demanding justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man killed by police near Minneapolis marched through Center City, Philadelphia on April 13, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘Cops are still killing us’: 150 protesters in Philly demand justice for Daunte Wright

Protesters in Philadelphia demanded justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota who police there killed Sunday night.

5 years ago

Local attorney Reginald Streater was picked by Mayor Jim Kenney to sit on Philadelphia’s Board of Education in December. Courtesy of Reginald Streater
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

New school board member talks goals for Philadelphia students, lawsuit by former affiliate group ACLU

Reginald Streater was picked by Mayor Jim Kenney to sit on Philadelphia’s Board of Education, one of three new board members to join in December.

5 years ago

Block G is toured in the West section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Friday June 1, 2018 in Collegeville, Pa. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Health

Autopsy report pending for Pa. prisoner who died 2 days after receiving J&J vaccine

SCI Phoenix in Montco stopped administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Friday — the same day a 45-year-old incarcerated man died.

5 years ago

ChristianaCare employee Kathleen Bonis gets the COVID vaccine in December 2020. (State of Delaware)
Education

70 fully vaccinated Delawareans have contracted COVID-19, and one death

Delaware’s public health director stressed a small percentage of post-shot infections should be expected because the vaccine isn’t 100% effective.

5 years ago

A rendering of the proposed Third and Walnut St. hotel approved by the Philadelphia Historical Commission. (Ambit architecture)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Society Hill hotel tower that sparked backlash moves ahead

The final iteration of the hotel project would replace a large single-family dwelling from the 1990s near 3rd and Walnut streets.

5 years ago

City Council President Darrell Clarke announced the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative in Philadelphia’s South Kensington neighborhood.
PlanPhilly
Community

More security cameras, gun buybacks, and job trainings: Council unveils anti-violence agenda

City Council rolled out its Violence Prevention and Opportunity Agenda days before Mayor Jim Kenney is slated to propose the city’s next budget.

5 years ago

Delaware County District Attorney, Jack Stollsteimer (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Delco makes police a resource for those seeking addiction treatment

Delaware County is the 8th in the state to join a program launched in Western Pa. by AG Shapiro in 2018. It’s the first county to do so in the Philly suburbs.

5 years ago

FILE - This Sept. 22, 2010 file photo shows bottles of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa. On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, the acting head of the Food and Drug Administration said women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor's office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the latest reversal in ongoing legal battles over use of the medication. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Health

U.S. agency says women can get abortion pill via telemedicine

U.S. health officials say women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor’s office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic.

5 years ago

Defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, defendant and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, right, and Nelson's assistant Amy Voss, back, introduce themselves to potential jurors
Courts & Law

Defense begins case against ex-cop in George Floyd’s death

The prosecution rested its case Tuesday after 11 days of testimony and a mountain of video evidence.

5 years ago

Katie Wright, center, the mother of Daunte Wright, and other family and friends gather during a news conference Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Minneapolis as family attorney Ben Crump, left, speaks. Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed by police Sunday after a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Courts & Law

Cop, police chief resign 2 days after Black motorist’s death

Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon described Sunday's shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright as “an accidental discharge.”

5 years ago

Members of both the Glee Club and the Penn Sirens.
Education

After 159 years, the UPenn Glee Club goes co-ed

The all-male singing group is considered an unofficial ambassador of the Ivy League school, even as it excluded women’s voices.

5 years ago

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(Brennan Linsley/AP Photo, file)
Community

Marijuana advocates spar with Delaware medicinal facilities over legalization

Recreational marijuana advocates in Delaware are sparring with medical marijuana companies over the best path for achieving cannabis legalization in the state.

5 years ago

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