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Eastern State Penitentiary has laid off staff, implemented salary reductions and made deep cuts to its operating budget due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The committee made the suggestion before the board votes on the new fare proposal on June 25. If approved, the new fare plan goes into effect July 1.

The high court ruled that the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” way when it moved to end DACA.

As Rayshard Brooks lay dying, prosecutors say the Atlanta police officer who shot him in the back kicked him and didn’t give him medical attention for more than two minutes.

The 1.5 million is a historically high number, even as the economy increasingly reopens and employers bring some people back to work.

After weeks of protest, Philly Council passed a preliminary budget plan that responds to calls for reprioritization in spending.

The package would include capital investments in poor neighborhoods, as well as millions more on job training, rent subsidies and basic income support.

The open public hearing is one of two required by the City Charter each year.

Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha is partnering with Scannapieco Development Corporation on the mixed-income development.

Budget cuts, however, will prevent a planned expansion of the city’s street cleaning program.

The Prospect Park resident who died from COVID-19 complications is remembered by her sisters for her spot-on impressions and “passion for people.”

This week is a busy one as businesses around the Delaware Valley start to reopen now that all of Pennsylvania’s counties are in the yellow or green phase.

The independent sector responsible for 70,000 students in the city has some state guidance, but little oversight. Each school develops its own safety plan.

A $32.5 million beach replenishment and dune building project in Cape May County that was scheduled to begin earlier this year will soon be underway, officials said.

The measures come in the wake of nearly three weeks of protests over police brutality, following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.