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New Jersey launches license plate cameras to combat soaring car theft rate
New Jersey will use $10 million in federal funds to install license plate readers along highways and on police cars in hopes of tracking down stolen vehicles.
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Sixers’ Embiid has broken orbital bone, as East semis loom
Embiid was injured late in Philadelphia’s victory at Toronto on Thursday night, when the 76ers were closing out the Raptors and finishing off a six-game win.
3 years ago
PGW has requested changes to public participation in budgetary processes calling them “overburdensome” and “inefficient.”
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Circle honoring victims of sexual assault closes out Philly advocacy event
The event came as Sexual Assault Awareness Month winds down.
3 years ago
Tech stocks sink again, Nasdaq has worst month since 2008
The Nasdaq fell 4% for the second time this week and finished April down 13.3%, its biggest monthly loss since 2008.
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Ilya Tlumach was 7 when he arrived in Lancaster County in 1989 from western Ukraine. His family was fleeing religious persecution under the former Soviet Union.
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Listen 4:53On Arbor Day, iconic Philly tree replaced with three new ones
On Friday – Arbor Day – groups of students helped plant the new trees, which in time may grow to be 80 feet tall.
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Former tennis star Boris Becker gets 2 1/2 years in prison for bankruptcy offenses
The three-time Wimbledon champion was found to have transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars after his June 2017 bankruptcy from his business account to other accounts.
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An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns
The AP identified several concerns about the technology, including questions about its reliability and its potential to harden racial disparities in the child welfare system.
3 years ago
FDA sets June meetings on COVID vaccines for youngest kids
The meeting announcement follows months of frustration from families impatient for a chance to vaccinate their little children.
3 years ago
Relatives: Former U.S. Marine killed fighting in Ukraine
According to relatives, a former U.S. Marine has been killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in what’s the first known death of a U.S. citizen fighting in Ukraine.
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Ukraine slams Kyiv attack amid new Mariupol rescue effort
Ukraine’s leader has accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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After 942 days, Opera Philadelphia returns to the Academy of Music
Canceled during the pandemic as a super-spreader event, now live opera comes back to the Academy of Music with a dark production of "Rigoletto."
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Listen 2:08Conservationists from the New Jersey Audubon Society have worked for nearly a decade to track and conserve the endangered bog turtle.
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Listen 5:07‘Forget YouTube,’ this Philly shop teaches cyclists how to repair their own bikes
West Philly’s Neighborhood Bike Works teaches cyclists how to fix up their own bike through a DIY repair program called Bike Church.
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