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Philly Music Fest returns this October with 21 different acts across 7 days
This year’s festival will feature singer-songwriter Amos Lee as the headliner at World Cafe Live on Oct. 24.
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Delaware County Council is at odds with Marple Township over the county’s attempt to assess a building on the site for possible use as a mental health facility.
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Listen 1:39Philly could get a consumer protection office inside City Hall
The proposed consumer protection office would help the city hold businesses accountable for unfair or deceptive trade practices.
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Listen 1:09Delaware lawmakers OK bill enabling board of political appointees to oversee hospital budgets
The legislation passed the House on a 24-16 vote Tuesday after the medical community dropped its opposition when the bill was amended.
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New Jersey State Police ‘never meaningfully grappled’ with discriminatory practices, official finds
According to a report by the state’s comptroller office, leaders never tackled data trends indicating "persistent, adverse treatment of racial and ethnic minority motorists."
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Trial of Sen. Bob Menendez takes a weeklong break after jurors get stuck in elevator
Judge Sidney H. Stein said jurors were trapped in an elevator for several minutes during what was supposed to be a 10-minute afternoon break that lasted almost a half hour.
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Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump
The sale is from storage sites in New Jersey and Maine and will be allocated in increments of 100,000 barrels at a time.
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TED Talks coming to Philly as part of 250th celebration of America’s independence
The speakers series now joins other 2026 events in Philly, including the World Cup, the MLB All-Star contest and March Madness.
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Listen 1:11Pharmacies in New Jersey now allowed to sell birth control without a prescription
Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law that removes the prescription requirements for products, including pills, patches, rings and injectable contraceptives.
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One caller reported an active shooter inside a Delaware high school, where another said he was going to kill a teacher and students, the FBI charges.
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Listen 2:03“He attacks his opponents as vermin,” Biden said. “He says immigrants are poisoning the blood of America. That’s a line used in Hitler’s Germany, not an American president.”
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Pennsylvania State Police will be directed to release an annual report on traffic stop data, but public information experts say that’s not enough.
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Defense rests without ex-President Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial
The judge has said he expects closing arguments to happen on May 28, the Tuesday after Memorial Day.
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Philly charter change proposal would mean more funding for affordable housing
The measure looks to close a loophole that has frustrated housing advocates for years.
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Listen 0:54Could Pennsylvania’s fracking wastewater hold the key to the country’s energy transition?
The U.S. will need a lot more lithium to make the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables. Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale has a ton of it.
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