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Arts & Entertainment

From Snacks to a FEAST: a 12-hour cabaret marathon is coming to your screen

FEAST brings dozens of performers from around the world into a 12-hour online event.

6 years ago

Trash backs up in the Schuylkill River at the SRT bridge near Douglassville. (Schuylkill Action Network)
Community

When litter in the river isn’t the only reason the Schuylkill is trashier

WHYY asked the region’s residents to tell us how the rivers and creeks near them are changing. Litter and flooding are some of their top concerns.

6 years ago

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Kathy Jennings, Delaware’s Attorney General. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware looks to N.J. for guidance on use-of-force reforms

A Delaware panel working to develop policing reforms following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor turns to N.J.’s Attorney General for advice.

6 years ago

Darryl Turner of Chester, Pa., stops at the pop-up voter service center at Subaru Park to drop off his mail-in ballot. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delco teams up with Philadelphia Union to host voter center this weekend

The center gives Delaware County residents the opportunity to register to vote, as well as request and drop off early voting ballots.

6 years ago

FILE - This May 26, 2020 file photo shows an Official Democratic General Primary mail-in ballot and secrecy envelope, for the Pennsylvania primary in Pittsburgh. Democrats are launching a digital ad targeting Pennsylvanians voting by mail to explain how to correctly fill out and return the ballots, hoping to avert worried predictions that 100,000 votes or more could be invalidated because the ballots aren't put in the proper envelope.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Politics & Policy

First batch of Pa. mail-in votes processing smoothly

Three weeks ahead of the 2020 Election, Pa.’s mail-in ballots are being processed smoothly, despite the state’s reluctance to allow pre-canvassing.

6 years ago

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The Philadelphia School (Google maps)
Education

COVID cases force the private Philadelphia School to switch to remote learning

In-person learning will not resume until after Oct. 27 at least. Eight coronavirus cases have been confirmed at the Center City school.

6 years ago

Oct. 2, 2020: A mail-in ballot for the Nov. 3 election in a mailbox in Rutherford. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Politics & Policy

Advocates sue N.J. on behalf of ‘displaced’ voters without a ballot

The lawsuit asks Secretary of State Tahesha Way to help voters who are not currently living at their home address because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump wipes away sweat during an NBC News Town Hall, at Perez Art Museum Miami, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

Biden outraises Trump $383M to $248M in September

President Donald Trump was outraised by Democrat Joe Biden in September and is being outgunned financially by his rival with just weeks to go until Election Day.

6 years ago

A Mariner East pipeline valve site on the edge of the Andover development, Thornbury Township, Delaware County, illustrates the pipeline's path through densely-populated southeastern Pennsylvania. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

At hearing on Mariner East safety, plaintiffs say Sunoco’s public awareness plan falls short

The plaintiffs are asking the PUC to investigate if Sunoco’s safety measures protect the public, and, if it finds safety is lacking, to close down the lines.

6 years ago

Alice and Len Sayles return their ballots in the drop box outside City Hall
Politics & Policy

Pa. says ‘overwhelming majority of ballots’ will be counted three days after Election Day

Pa. Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar said she expects the “overwhelming majority of ballots” to be tabulated three days after Election Day.

6 years ago

This photo collage shows 10th Congressional District candidates: Democrat Eugene DePasquale, left, and Republican Scott Perry, right. (Commonwealth Media Services and Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Politics & Policy

Incumbent Perry and challenger DePasquale battle for voters in a divided 10th Congressional District

Democratic challenger and current state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is seeking to unseat Republican incumbent Scott Perry, who has held the position since 2012.

6 years ago

From left, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Philadelphia ICE field office director Simona Flores-Lund speak during a press conference on Oct. 16, 2020. (Screenshot)
Courts & Law

ICE officials use Philly press conference to tout 170 arrests in ‘sanctuary’ cities

'Operation Rise' arrests in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Seattle, Baltimore, and Washington coincide with the final leg of the presidential campaign.

6 years ago

People in their vehicles receive COVID-19 tests at a barrier free location outside the Pinn Memorial Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health

Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium offering flu shots in Philly

Over the next week, the vaccine for seasonal influenza will be offered at locations across the city, to stave off a possible 'twindemic.'

6 years ago

The Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (Russ Walker/PA Post)
Money

Pennsylvania sees another big monthly drop in jobless rate

However, the state still has yet to recover many of the jobs lost to the economic impact of the coronavirus.

6 years ago

Bryan Morton coaches a child in Camden in 2011, at about the time he founded the North Camden Little League. (April Saul for WHYY)
Community

Influential Camden leader charged for attack at ‘Elite Professionals’ dinner

Bryan Morton is charged with third-degree aggravated assault for allegedly beating Rashan Prailow with a microphone at a weekend dinner.

6 years ago

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