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School buses are seen in a file photo.
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Middle Schooled

Andy Mullen, a Radnor resident who has been both a middle school and high school counselor for the past 16 years in the Tredyffrin/Eastto ...

8 years ago

In this April 25, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump tells NRA he’s withdrawing from arms trade treaty

President Donald Trump said Friday he is withdrawing the U.S. from an international agreement on the arms trade.

8 years ago

This rendering shows 4136 Mitchell Street in Roxborough, where additional height was allowed in exchange for a promise of a fresh food market. (KCA Design Associates)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Kenyatta Johnson introduces reform to ‘fresh food’ zoning bonus that rewarded developers for ‘bananas in the window’

The tweak is intended to prevent developers from gaming the system and encourage the creation of better food markets in areas that need them.

8 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during a campaign stop on Friday, April 26, 2019, at Allen University in Columbia, S.C. (Meg Kinnard/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Cory Booker offers plan to address environmental inequality

Booker says addressing environmental inequality is one of today's civil rights battles.

8 years ago

A community member writes a message on the back of her car to remember Sincere Howard and Shirleen Caban, who were killed on Sunday, April 21 at Von Nieda Park in Camden. A community rally was held to create safer environment for children on Thursday, April 25, 2019. (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
Community

Camden mourns teenagers killed on Easter, decries the continuing violence

Community leaders and activists rallied Thursday at Von Nieda Park, where 17-year-old Sincere Howard and 19-year-old Shirleen Caban were fatally shot.

8 years ago

File phtoto: Harrisburg's Market Street Bridge is one of the roughly 3,000 classified as in need of repairs. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. fuel tax meant for bridge repair went to state police instead

From 2011 to 2017, $4.2 billion that could have gone toward repairing hundreds of structurally deficient bridges around the state has gone to fund State Police operations.

8 years ago

A file photo of clouds associated with a severe thunderstorm passing over the Atlantic Ocean as seen from Seaside Park. (Ben Currie)
Down the Shore
Community

NWS: Isolated tornadoes possible in southern Shore Friday

Severe thunderstorms are possible Friday at the Jersey Shore, and forecasters are not ruling out the potential for isolated tornadoes. 

8 years ago

Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers load bottled water onto a CH-47 Chinook helicopter September 1 at Fort Indiantown Gap in preparation to depart for the Hurricane Harvey relief effort in Texas. (U.S. National Guard photo by Sgt. Zane Craig)
Health

Area police departments, National Guard join forces to collect prescription meds

It's the fifth year the guard's Counterdrug Joint Task Force is working with police to collect the drugs from more than 800 drop-off centers around the state.

8 years ago

A Federal Reserve study surveys the top occupations that don't require a four-year college degree. (Big Stock photo)
Money

Top 10 job opportunities in Philly region for workers without college degree

The majority of Americans don't have a college degree. But there are many non-college jobs that pay reasonably well.

8 years ago

Abel Perez (left) and Pablo Alvarez (right), are pictured holding their sons. (Courtesy of Church World Service)
Courts & Law

Cuban immigrants detained by ICE in York for more than a year, despite federal court ruling

Abel Perez, 27, and Pablo Alvarez, 26, both arrived from Cuba at the U.S. southern border in December 2017. Both applied for asylum, and have been held ever since.

8 years ago

Madeleine Dean
Politics & Policy

Rep. Dean will introduce PFAS bill, the 15th in Congress this year

Both the House and Senate have stepped up efforts to address the toxic chemicals, which affect communities in Bucks and Montgomery counties and nationwide.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump
Politics & Policy

Pa. Republicans setting scene for another Trump win in ’20

Pennsylvania Republicans meet with President Donald Trump's advisers to work out a strategy to once again deliver the state's electoral votes to the president.

8 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is pictured in this Jan. 15, 2019 file photo (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Money

New Jersey enacts two laws to help students repay loans

One of the new laws will make it easier for borrowers struggling to pay off loans. The other allows borrowers who have defaulted on those loans to start an installment plan.

8 years ago

Crews work at the site of a sinkhole along the Mariner East pipeline route near the Pennsylvania State Police barracks on Route 1 in Delaware County on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Pipeline builder said there were no leaks and no pipelines were exposed. (Kimberly Paynter / WHYY)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sinkhole opens up along ME2 route in Delaware County; no leaks or injuries

Sunoco says hole has been filled and pipeline operations continue

8 years ago

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PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

New ‘park anywhere’ car-sharing service vying for a spot on Philly’s jammed streets

After months of lobbying, a German company could be on the cusp of making a new method of car sharing legal in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

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