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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman listens at a news conference about moving the process to apply for clemency online to improve access to criminal justice and to reduce the wait by years, at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, April 4, 2022.
Community

Pennsylvania aims to reduce wait for clemency by years

The process for inmates and ex-convicts in Pennsylvania to apply for clemency should go fully online by year's end in an effort to improve access.

3 years ago

The family of Kevin Drinks, who was murdered in 2011, speaks at a press event announcing the convictions of four men who were found guilty of his murder.
Courts & Law

Cold case no more: 4 convicted in 2011 Philly murder

More than a decade after the death of Kevin Drinks, four men have been convicted for his murder in what prosecutors say was a case of mistaken identity.

3 years ago

Robert Fyvolent, from left, David Dinerstein, Questlove, and Joseph Patel accept the award for best music film album
Arts & Entertainment

Jazz, R&B, classical: Philly talent cleaned up at the Grammys

Philadelphia artists took center stage at the Grammy Awards this weekend as some of the city's talent walked away with top honors.

3 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks to the press on April 4, 2022.
Community

Biden: Putin should face war crimes trial for Bucha killings

President Joe Biden is calling for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and says he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine.

3 years ago

Investigators search for evidence in the area of a mass shooting in Sacramento, Calif. April 3, 2022.
Community

Arrest made in connection with Sacramento mass shooting

Sacramento police have announced an arrest connected with the shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others in the heart of California’s capital city.

3 years ago

The Schuylkill River exceeds its bank in the Manayunk sectio
Science

World hurtling to climate danger zone, brakes half-pulled

The IPCC’s report found the limit for global warming agreed in the 2015 Paris accord would be missed if countries continue to release as much planet-heating gas as planned.

3 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson takes her seat before the start of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Courts & Law

Murkowski, Romney to support Jackson for Supreme Court

Monday's committee vote was delayed when one senator's plane was delayed bringing him back to Washington.

3 years ago

Soldiers walk amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha
Community

Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine’s streets

European leaders and the United Nations human rights chief condemned the bloodshed, some of them also branding it genocide.

3 years ago

Drivers are shown on their way to Seaside Heights
Community

Study finds 1 in 5 N.J. drivers distracted ahead of new awareness campaign

A new study from Rowan University found that 1 in 5 state drivers are distracted. It comes ahead of a new awareness campaign.

3 years ago

A PET scan in process at Adler Imaging. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

How advances in heart imaging can help improve diagnoses

Nuclear imaging has significantly improved the accuracy of stress tests, to diagnose conditions like coronary artery disease.

3 years ago

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Anthony Mohamed performs at Camden's IDEA Center
Arts & Entertainment

Camden’s IDEA Center celebrates National Poetry Month by honoring late poets

Jazz on Market in Camden celebrates the late Sandra Turner-Barnes and Lamont Dixon and their artistic contributions. It’s the first event at their new Market Street home.

3 years ago

Jon Batiste performs a medley at the 31st annual MusiCares Person of the Year benefit gala honoring Joni Mitchell on Friday, April 1, 2022, at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas.
Arts & Entertainment

Jon Batiste wins 4 Grammy Awards in early ceremony

Philly's own Questlove won his sixth Grammy for best music film through “Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised.”)

3 years ago

John Legend accepts the Global Impact Award at the Recording Academy Honors Presented By The Black Music Collective on Saturday, April 2, 2022, at Resorts World Las Vegas.
Arts & Entertainment

John Legend honored at Grammys’ Black Music Collective event

Legend explained how Black music has set trends for worldwide listeners during the academy’s Black Music Collective event, held Saturday night in Las Vegas.

3 years ago

A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022.
Community

Ukraine accuses retreating Russians of civilian massacre

Ukrainian troops are finding brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in the suburbs of Kyiv, sparking calls for a war crimes investigation and sanctions against Russia.

3 years ago

A roadblock is set a block away from the scene of an apparent mass shooting in Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, April 3, 2022.
Community

California mass shooting: 6 dead, 12 injured in Sacramento

Police in California are searching for at least one suspect in connection with a mass shooting early Sunday that claimed six lives and left 12 other people injured.

3 years ago

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