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PlanPhilly
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Spraygrounds a relatively safe way to cool off, experts say

As Philadelphia reopens its park spraygrounds, experts say they’re a relatively safe way for kids to play and stay cool during the summer heat.

6 years ago

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Politics & Policy

You’ll need to mark ‘sick’ to vote by mail in Delaware’s Tuesday primary

Come September, Del. voters will be able to vote-by-mail without an excuse. For Tuesday’s presidential primary, they’ll have to mark “sick” on ballots to do so.

6 years ago

Otis Blair
Community

Can a Delco task force succeed in influencing criminal justice reform?

Delaware County’s district attorney is leading new efforts, highlighting a basic challenge: police departments are beholden to municipal leaders instead.

6 years ago

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Michael Ochiori and his son
Politics & Policy

‘I want my vote to matter’: Polls open for 2 hot races in S. Jersey; Del. votes on presidential race

All eyes are on N.J.’s 2nd and 3rd Congressional primaries and how the state handles a nearly-all mail-in election.

6 years ago

This illustration provided by the American Museum of Natural History in July 2020 depicts a Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands. Kongonaphon lived roughly 237 million years ago. (Frank Ippolito/American Museum of Natural History)
Science

Fossils reveal dinosaur forerunner smaller than a cellphone

Named Kongonaphon kely, which means tiny bug slayer, the creature looked like a dinosaur but scampered the Earth earlier, predating both dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs.

6 years ago

In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, students walk near the Widener Library in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The Ivy League school announced Monday, July 6, 2020, that as the coronavirus pandemic continues its freshman class will be invited to live on campus this fall, while most other undergraduates will be required learn remotely from home. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Education

New rules: Foreign pupils must leave US if classes go online

New federal guidelines say international students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall.

6 years ago

Many Pennsylvania businesses received funding from the Paycheck Protection Program. (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Dozens of Pa. charter schools among recipients of federal small business aid

About 165,000 organizations have received PPP funding so far, totalling $20.7 billion — making Pennsylvania one of the top users of the loan program.

6 years ago

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Down the Shore
Community

N.J. aviation troopers rescue stranded jet skier from Barnegat Bay

New Jersey state troopers rescued a jet skier stranded on a Barnegat Bay island Sunday afternoon after her jet ski malfunctioned. 

6 years ago

Rapper Kanye West smiles as he listens to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House with President Donald Trump, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

What would it take for Kanye West to get on the ballot in Pennsylvania?

A 2018 court settlement lowered the bar for independent and minor-party candidates

6 years ago

Video shows Amy Cooper threatening to call the police on Christian Cooper
Community

White woman charged after racist Central Park confrontation

In May, Amy Cooper drew widespread condemnation for calling 911 to report she was being threatened by “an African-American man."

6 years ago

“There is absolutely no affordable housing in East Oak Lane. Period,” says pastor Wilbert Richardson as he sits in his office at Refuge Evangelical Baptist Church on Wednesday. — (Michael D'Onfrio / The Philadelphia Tribune)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Mixed-income housing project divides Baptist church and East Oak Lane neighborhood

Refuge Evangelical Baptist Church aims to construct a $15.1 million four-story apartment building on a vacant lot at 1122 Oak Lane with 40 one-bedroom apartments for seniors.

6 years ago

An empty jail cell
Community

Officials announce cluster of COVID-19 cases at Delaware prison

Nearly 60 people held in a southern Delaware prison have tested positive for the coronavirus.

6 years ago

Recycling bins on Cuthbert Street in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Pa. coronavirus recovery: Weekly recycling pickup resumes in Philadelphia

Starting Monday, Philadelphia will again collect recycling from each home every week. The city had been collecting recycling once every two weeks during the pandemic.

6 years ago

Members of the public are seen at a bar on Canal Street
Health

Scientists urge WHO to acknowledge coronavirus can spread in air

WHO has been criticized in recent weeks and months for its seeming divergence from the scientific community.

6 years ago

Monmouth Beach
Community

N.J. coronavirus recovery: Officials concerned after infection rate ticks up

Officials are urging travelers to follow the 14-day quarantine advisory as they see an uptick in the rate of infection for COVID-19.

6 years ago

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