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The SEPTA holiday buses were amazingly extra this year
Transit workers volunteer time to dress up the vehicles, and their creations are impressive.
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Sports fueled Philly athletes Dajah Horsey and Malika Douglas in their fight against food insecurity
Philly athletes Dajah Horsey and Malika Douglas show how athletics help girls fight back against food insecurity.
6 years ago
South Philly neighbors pull together in wake of deadly explosion
South Philly residents are pulling together to help families who lost their homes Thursday to a fiery explosion.
6 years ago
Record-breaking travel volume expected this holiday season in the region
Nationwide, AAA projects more than 115 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more between Saturday, Dec. 21 and New Year’s Day.
6 years ago
Navy, Army probes find no racism intent in hand gestures
Military investigations have concluded that hand gestures flashed by West Point cadets during the televised Army-Navy football game were not racist signals.
6 years ago
At the Shore, relatively mild temperatures potentially ahead to close out 2019
The bone-chilling Arctic temperatures currently impacting the Jersey Shore will fade over the weekend leading to potentially relatively mild weather to end the year.
6 years ago
South Philly restaurants offer free meals to families displaced by rowhome fire
The blaze at 8th and Reed leveled three houses and shut off utilities at 10 more.
6 years ago
Poorest Pa. families struggle through holidays as cash welfare stuck at 1990 levels
Pennsylvania’s grant amounts have been stagnant since George H.W. Bush was president. Meanwhile, the state is sitting on $400 million in program reserves.
6 years ago
Listen 4:07Huntingdon passes LGBTQ anti-discrimination law, a first for rural Pa.
Rural Pa. borough passes ordinance barring discrimination against LGBTQ people in housing, employment and public accommodation.
6 years ago
How online grocery delivery could help alleviate food deserts
Delivery service could make it easier to access fresh, healthy food in these areas, a study finds. It lends support to a program that lets people pay with food stamps.
6 years ago
South Philly rowhome blaze is the city’s sixth big fire this year
The city’s old infrastructure is ripe for disaster.
6 years ago
Middletown, Delaware approves new guidelines for controversial parade
Middletown’s new parade rules come after the 2019 New Year’s Day Hummers Parade included a float depicting migrant children in cages at the U.S.-Mexico border.
6 years ago
A block of South Philadelphia is battling a fire after a rowhouse collapsed in flames.
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Eulogies for Chris Cotton, the Philly comedian who died of an embolism
Reflection services are set for Dec. 21.
6 years ago
She was shot by a stranger in Chester County. She thinks a red flag law might have prevented it.
Gun removal laws take effect in three states next month. But those efforts have stalled in Pennsylvania.
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