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A video screengrab shows Vice President Mike Pence being evacuated as rioters breach the Capitol
Politics & Policy

Police beg for help, senators flee in Trump trial video

Trump is charged with inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection after encouraging a crowd to “fight like hell” over his defeated election.

5 years ago

Jimi Lewis, the senior skating instructor at Laura Sims Skate House, holds a flyer from 1986 that he created. (Taylor Allen/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

West Philly is home to the first U.S. ice skating rink built by and for a Black community — and this week it turned 36

Laura Sims Skate House was the first U.S. ice skating rink created for an African American community by an African American architect.

5 years ago

Dyresha Harris
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Center for Architecture gives awards for urban design psychiatry, ideas for PES site renewal

The Center for Architecture and Design in Philadelphia honors Mindy Fullilove, while pondering how to remediate the PES refinery site.

5 years ago

First lady Jill Biden's necklace says
Education

Jill Biden pushes free access to community college, training

A longtime community college professor and advocate, the first lady said people struggling to get by during the coronavirus economic slump need access to these schools.

5 years ago

In this image from video, Bruce Castor, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, speaks during the second impeachment trial of Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)
Courts & Law

After rambling speech, Pa. lawyer Bruce Castor panned for Trump impeachment performance

Castor acknowledged that President Biden lawfully won the 2020 election — something his client, Trump, has never admitted.

5 years ago

Dancers from the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe join hands with spectators at the 2019 Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Indigenous Peoples’ Day to replace Columbus Day in Philly

The city of Philadelphia will no longer observe Columbus Day — and that has organizers of the city’s annual parade up in arms.

5 years ago

File photo: The Cumberland County Jail. (April Saul for WHYY)
Courts & Law

‘Not asking for a dime’: Incarcerated people sue Cumberland County over jail conditions

Prisoners are suing Cumberland officials over conditions inside the county jail and accusing them of mistreatment. A county commissioner says otherwise.

5 years ago

Teachers gather outside Samuel Gompers School in Philadelphia to protest the district's plan to reopen classrooms for 9,000 pre-K to second grade students.
Education
Broke in Philly

Child welfare nonprofits in Philly call for teachers to return to classrooms

The coalition argues that schools can be reopened safely this month, but teachers must heed the district’s call to return in order to begin that process.

5 years ago

Dr. Karyl Rattay, Director, Delaware Division of Public Health answers questions regarding Delaware’s response to coronavirus disease during a press briefing at the Carvel State Office building in Wilmington, DE.
(Saquan Stimpson / WHYY)
Health

COVID-19 cases, positivity rates, hospitalizations continue to plummet in Delaware

Delaware is one of nine states that has given at least 10% of its residents at least one of two needed vaccination shots, its public health director says.

5 years ago

Homicide Capt. Jason Smith, standing next to Commissioner Outlaw, addresses the media at a press conference
Courts & Law

‘Absolutely grueling’: 7 people fatally shot in Philly in less than 24 hours

In response to a surge in gun violence, Philadelphia has added four homicide investigators and specially-trained detectives are monitoring social media.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley addresses the media
Health

Pa. coronavirus update: Philly case counts see a ‘downward trend’

City officials are encouraged by the overall decline in case counts, but they are still urging people not to let their guard down.

5 years ago

A photo of Marsy Nicholas, the namesake for victim rights legislation that has passed in several states, sits against a chair during a 2013 rally in Santa Ana, Calif. (Bret Hartman/AP Images for Marsy'sLawForAll.org)
Courts & Law

Wolf takes Pa. out of appeal over victim rights amendment Marsy’s Law

Gov. Wolf let the deadline pass without filing an appeal of Commonwealth Court's divided decision that the Marsy's Law state constitutional amendment bundled too many changes.

5 years ago

A worker prepares a syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine
Health

Philly public health contractor offers COVID-19 vaccine to entire staff, including those not yet eligible

The nonprofit Public Health Management Corp. offered vaccines to its 3,000-member staff, many of whom aren’t eligible yet.

5 years ago

An illustration depicts the COVID-19 era.
Health
Spotlight PA

Lack of targeted outreach, translated materials leaves Latino community behind as Pa. struggles with vaccine rollout

Older Pennsylvanians, who are supposed to be among the first in line to get the vaccine, are also struggling with clunky and disjointed online signups.

5 years ago

Peter Ben Embarek, of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus
Health

WHO team: Coronavirus likely jumped to humans from animal

WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek announced that assessment Tuesday at the end of a visit by a WHO team that is investigating the virus' origins.

5 years ago

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