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This photo shows a handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death that is being offered for sale by Raab Collection in Ardmore, Pa., Thursday, April 11, 2019. The telegram was written inside a home where Lincoln was rushed after being shot at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Community

Telegram announcing Abraham Lincoln’s death is up for sale

The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer.

8 years ago

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Health

Gov. Murphy signs law requiring mental health coverage parity by insurers

The new measure requires insurers to cover mental health care to the same extent and degree as physical health, and expands the conditions that qualify.

8 years ago

The 2014 S.12th Street site of the former Camac Bath. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Should a former Philly bathhouse gain landmark status because of its place in LGBTQ history?

Back when homosexuality was illegal in Philadelphia, the Camac Baths offered a safe place for queer subculture to exist.

8 years ago

Major League Baseball will play the 2026 All-Star Game in Philadelphia to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo, File)
Community

Philadelphia to host 2026 MLB All-Star Game

Baseball's 2026 All-Star Game will be played in Philadelphia to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

8 years ago

Car driving through a flooded street. (FEMA)
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

Shore town considers jailing motorists generating large waves during flooding

Stone Harbor is the latest in a slew of Jersey Shore municipalities have either formally considered or adopted into law what is now known as "no wake ordinances."

8 years ago

Awilda Ocasio’s sons Edgardo Colón (left) and Marco López look up at Ann Northrup’s “Heart of Kensington” mural at Kensington and Allegheny Avenues on Feb. 25, 2019. Ocasio is pictured at the center of the mural surrounded by children. (Solmaira Valerio/Kensington Voice)
Community
Kensington Voice

Awilda Ocasio: The ‘Mother Teresa of Kensington’

Two years after her death, a neighborhood activist's legacy of love lives on.

8 years ago

Maura McInerney, legal director fo Education Law Center, talks about a class action lawsuit against Glen Mills Schools which charges that boys at the reform school were abused and deprived of education. She is joined by Chief Legal Officer Marsha Levick and Michael McGinley, a partner at Dechert LLP. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Advocates sue Pa. officials, say they failed to catch major problems at Glen Mills Schools

The suit holds two Pa. departments responsible for constitutional violations and other infractions against children sent to the prominent Delaware County reform school.

8 years ago

Patrons file into the EAT Café on Lancaster Avenue in University City. The pay-what-you-can restaurant will close on April 19 after 2 1/2 years in business. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Money

Saying goodbye to EAT Café: Philly’s first pay-what-you-can restaurant to close

Drexel’s pay-what-you-can restaurant is going out of business.

8 years ago

Bill Baroni leaves the Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to reporters outside of Federal Courthouse after a court appearance, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Bill Baroni, ‘Bridgegate’ scandal defendant, starts serving federal prison term

Bill Baroni started serving his 18-month sentence Tuesday in the Loretto Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

Measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are seen at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., Wednesday, March 27, 2019. The county in New York City's northern suburbs declared a local state of emergency Tuesday over a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall, hoping a ban against unvaccinated children in public places wakes their parents to the seriousness of the problem. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Health
NJ Spotlight

Renewed focus on measles vaccines in New Jersey

There have been far fewer cases of the highly contagious respiratory disease in the Garden State, but health officials continue to promote vaccinations.

8 years ago

Gov. John Carney at Wedneday's town hall hosted by WHYY. At left is WHYY's Mark Eichmann and Shirley Min. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Gov. Carney defends Biden in town hall, says Delaware in sound shape

Gov. John Carney says Delawareans expect politicians, especially former U.S. senator and Vice President Joe Biden, to embrace them.

8 years ago

City Councilman Bobby Henon attends a budget hearing on March 1, 2018. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Indicted Councilman Henon pushes for more L&I inspectors, dominates budget hearing

Henon dominated the hearing with testimony in favor of a moonshot bill he introduced in January, which would almost quintuple the number of department inspectors.

8 years ago

Beatrice Dias with Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab is working with partners in Louisville, Kentucky to build a base of users for Smell MyCity. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh smells app goes nationwide, crowdsourcing where the air is worst

Some Allegheny County residents use a smartphone app to report foul smells in their communities, and a new version of that app is now available to the rest of the country.

8 years ago

An NRA supporter holds up a sign in front of gun-control activists in front of the Delaware State Capitol building in Dover, Del., Wednesday. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Supporters of gun rights crash Del. rally to ban assault weapons, large magazines

Demonstrators who fear their Second Amendment rights will be threatened and activists for gun-control measures clash at rally promoting firearm-safety bills in Delaware.

8 years ago

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The Rev. Clarence Hester and CDC President Tinamarie Russell hope to use the development at North Broad and Indiana Avenue to spark an economic revival for the neighborhood. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Neighbors want a role in building North Station District

The planned North Station District development could reshape North Philly for decades to come. Neighbors are organizing for construction jobs and other benefits.

8 years ago

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