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Down the Shore
Community

Rumbles and booms: Military training ongoing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst

Military units are conducting training maneuvers on the base, according to the Toms River Office of Emergency Management.

6 years ago

(Commonwealth Media Services)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

More financial assistance may be on the way for Pennsylvanians struggling to pay utility bills

PennPIRG, a nonpartisan group that advocates for consumers, said nearly 800,000 households and 55,000 businesses in Pennsylvania are at risk of a shutoff.

6 years ago

Brittany Berkins
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Need a respite from the brutal heat? Philly offers 10 public cooling centers

City officials opened 10 air conditioning spaces during the first heat emergency of 2020. But few people knew about the resource on Monday.

6 years ago

Encampment on Ben Franklin Parkway
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Mayor Kenney, stop putting optics before solutions — your city needs housing now

An open letter to Mayor Kenney and Philadelphia Housing Authority CEO Kelvin Jeremiah about the city’s homeless encampments and demands for housing.

6 years ago

Danielle Leneé and Brett Ashley Robinson in IS GOD IS
Arts & Entertainment

With the stage off limits, Wilma Theater tries something new: a radio play

The Wilma Theater will present its final production the 2019-20 season, the Afrofuturist work “Is God Is,” as a radio play — something it’s never done before.

6 years ago

A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks by a closed storefront in Lebanon, Pa., Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

As deadline looms to renew $600 jobless benefits, Pa. ‘workers are terrified’

The $600-a-week federal supplement was designed to make the average worker whole during the worst economic downturn in at least four decades.

6 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Delaware Art Museum revives ‘Black Survival Guide’ exhibit

Originally commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Guard occupation of Wilmington, the exhibit has new relevance in 2020.

6 years ago

Sarai Ford
Community

‘We’re tired of losing our loved ones’: Young Philadelphians rally against gun violence

The demonstration, which will move from Center City to North Philly, is a call to action aimed at city leaders and residents.

6 years ago

Protesters rally outside a McDonald's in Detroit, Monday, July 20, 2020. The national workers strike saw people walk off the job Monday in U.S. cities to protest systemic racism and economic inequality. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Workers protest racial inequality on day of national strike

The “Strike for Black Lives” protest was organized by labor unions and social and racial justice organizations, which planned a range of actions in more than two dozen cities.

6 years ago

Crime scene tape surrounds the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas
Courts & Law

‘Men’s rights’ lawyer eyed in shooting of N.J. judge’s family

A self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer found dead in the Catskills of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound is being investigated as the possible gunman.

6 years ago

PlayPenn artistic director Paul Meshejian
Arts & Entertainment

Founding director of Philly theater group resigns after racism, harassment allegations

Facing allegations of racism and sexual harassment within his organization, PlayPenn’s founding director Paul Meshejian has resigned.

6 years ago

Chambersburg post office. (Brett Sholtis / WITF)
Health

Chambersburg postal workers refuse to wear masks, and the state can’t do anything about it

The situation highlights how safety precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have become part of election-year politics.

6 years ago

King Hill
Community

Babysitter charged with murder of missing North Philly toddler

Two-year-old King Hill, of North Philadelphia, went missing in early July. Prosecutors have now charged a babysitter with murdering the boy.

6 years ago

A testing kit sits on the windshield of a car as it passes through a drive-through COVID-19 testing site set up in St. Charles, Mo. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo)
Community

N.J. coronavirus recovery: Monday’s numbers may be skewed due to reporting glitch

Officials said Quest Laboratories, one of the private labs involved with COVID-19 testing, had problems reporting results electronically.

6 years ago

King Hill
Community
NBC10

Missing Philadelphia toddler is dead, source says; suspect in custody

Two-year-old King Hill was reported missing on July 7.

6 years ago

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