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Service workers pre-package hundreds of free school lunches in plastic bags. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)
Education

Free school meals expand to ‘middle-income families’ in New Jersey

Gov. Phil Murphy said new legislation he signed into law would reduce food insecurity and offer healthy meals to more families.

3 years ago

File photo: A pitch clock is deployed to restrict pitcher preparation times during a minor league baseball game between the Brooklyn Cyclones and Greensboro Grasshoppers, July 13, 2022, in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Major League Baseball is set to announce a pitch clock and limits on defensive shifts next season in an effort to shorten games and increase offense. The sport’s 11-man competition committee is set to adopt the rules changes Friday, Sept. 9. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Arts & Entertainment

MLB adopts pitch clock, shift limits, bigger bases for 2023

The changes had long been pushed by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in an effort to combat the increase in dead time and suffocation of offense in the age of analytics.

3 years ago

A person reaches for mushrooms on a shelf.
Community

How a small area in Chester County became the ‘Mushroom Capital of the World’

The 37th annual Mushroom Festival in Kennett Square is this weekend. Did you know Chester County produces half of the nation’s mushroom supply?

3 years ago

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Courts & Law

Judge tosses Trump’s Russia probe suit against Clinton, FBI

The judge said in a sharply worded ruling that Trump’s lawsuit contained “glaring structural deficiencies” and that many of the “characterizations of events are implausible.”

3 years ago

In this Tuesday, July 3, 2018, photo, a used syringe is seen in a disposal container. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Health

Bucks County opens collection boxes for used needles, syringes

County leaders said the sharps collection initiative is a first step in harm reduction and substance abuse prevention.

3 years ago

The 240-year-old Melrose Cottage, also known as the Old President’s House,  will be restored and converted into a new welcome center on Cheyney University’s campus. (Cheyney University Photo)
Education
The Philadelphia Tribune

Cheyney receives grant to renovate historic home into welcome center

The restoration process will include the renovation of the exterior facade and interior space to convert Melrose Cottage into a multi-functional facility.

3 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall.
Politics & Policy

Philly City Council to fill 2 of 4 vacancies by special election in November

Four City Council members have resigned to run for mayor, but Council President Darrell Clarke is only scheduling special elections for two of the vacancies.

3 years ago

File photo: Doug Mastriano, speaks at an event on July 1, 2022, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)
Politics & Policy

Support of false election claims runs deep in 2022 GOP field

Nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing or certifying elections supported overturning the 2020 presidential election.

3 years ago

The Pennsylvania Capitol is shown in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021.
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

How Harrisburg Works: The rules for Pa. lawmaker per diems, speaker v. leader, and other Q and As

Spotlight PA’s Stephen Caruso wants to help you understand how the sausage really gets made, how your tax dollars are spent, and how Harrisburg works (or doesn’t).

3 years ago

Britain's King Charles III delivers his address to the nation and the Commonwealth from Buckingham Palace, London, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. (Yui Mok/Pool Photo via AP)
Community

King Charles III, in first address, vows `lifelong service’

His speech was broadcast on television and streamed at St. Paul’s Cathedral, where some 2,000 people were attending a service of remembrance for the queen.

3 years ago

A close-up of Doug Mastriano at a rally
Politics & Policy

Amid campaign, Mastriano’s disputed dissertation made public

A Canadian university has quietly made public Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano's 2013 doctoral thesis about a legendary World War I hero.

3 years ago

New Jersey State Police cars parked on the side of the street.
Courts & Law

New Jersey launches online dashboard documenting internal police investigations

The dashboard filters investigations by law enforcement agencies, types of allegations made, and if any disciplinary action was taken.

3 years ago

Jim White can barely get his long arms around the American chestnut found ina remote part of Coverdale Farm Preserve. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

Eagle-eyed Delaware hunter chances upon ‘holy grail’ of tree lovers — full-grown American chestnut

Adult chestnuts were long thought to be extinct in Delaware. A fungus decimated the species in the eastern United States in the early 1900s.

3 years ago

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Cristina Martínez at her restaurant Casa Mexico. The lightbox outside honors her late son, Isaias Berriozabal-Martínez, with a poem he wrote. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘We all belong to this place’: Public art project shines a light on the people who make the Italian Market thrive

A new project by artist Michelle Angela Ortiz centers on the immigrant communities that live and work along South Philly’s Italian Market.

3 years ago

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Lee Thompson waits in a room at Jefferson University Hospital, to get a tubal ligation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

‘I feel much more in control’: In a post-Roe America, Philadelphians consider permanent birth control procedures

The overturning of Roe has prompted some people to seek permanent birth control methods, as doctors consider their role in educating patients about irreversible procedures.

3 years ago

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