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Carney vetoes a bill passed earlier this month that would have allowed recreational marijuana use in the First State. He says it’s not in the state’s best interest.

State Sen. Art Haywood said his bill — informed in part by the police killing of Christian Hall — would address the “appearance of bias” that erodes trust in law enforcement.

Ukrainian authorities say that workers digging through rubble found 200 bodies in Mariupol, another grim discovery in the ruined port city.

The national Republican Party is taking the side of celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pa.’s neck-and-neck GOP primary contest for U.S. Senate.

David McCormick’s campaign is suing in a Pa. court over his neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Several cineplexes across the state have collectively agreed to make movies more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.

The current tally is about 7% behind the record for homicides set in 2021, but Philadelphia’s DA is still cautious after a weekend where six were killed.

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy helped draw attention to a change in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to help workers get student loans forgiven.

Currently inside the city Commerce Department, the referendum could make it a cabinet-level department to be more competitive with other major cities.

Dredging along the Schuylkill will help rowers and mitigate future flooding after a dispute with the Army Corps of Engineers halted the project in the fall of 2020.

The goal is to support groups with small budgets through a microgrant to help them expand and prevent violence on the neighborhood level.

The contract is to last for another six months, through Nov. 18, under an extension signed last week by Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward.

Neighborhood branches of the public library in Philly will screen episodes of the doc series about Larry Krasner, with discussions about criminal justice.

President Joe Biden wanted to end Title 42 immigration limitations on Monday, but a federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide injunction that keeps them intact.

In many schools, the Buffalo shooting and others before it have prompted staff discussions on how they might respond to students' threats of violence.