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Transit workers volunteer time to dress up the vehicles, and their creations are impressive. (Danya Henninger)
Philadelphia
Transportation
Billy Penn

The SEPTA holiday buses were amazingly extra this year

Transit workers volunteer time to dress up the vehicles, and their creations are impressive.

6 years ago

Philly athletes Dajah Horsey and Malika Douglas show how athletics help girls fight back against food insecurity. (Charles Fox/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Sports
Broke in Philly

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

Firefighters hose down the remains of two rowhouses
PlanPhilly
Housing
Public Safety

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

File photo: Rush-hour traffic heads west, right, and east, left, along the Schuylkill Expressway. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Transportation
Travel

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 midshipmen march onto field ahead of an NCAA college football game between the Army and the Navy in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Military
Sports

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

The 2019 Asbury Park Convention Hall Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. (Courtesy of Chris Spiegel/Blur Revision Media Design)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

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

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Billy Penn

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

23-year-old Carissa Coolbaugh talks about her experiences as a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipient Dec. 17, 2019, while at her home in Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

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 4:07
Marianne Mondt
Keystone Crossroads
LGBTQ
Pennsylvania

Huntingdon 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

A new study suggests that one service already in place in many food deserts could help make it easier to access fresh, healthy food: online grocery delivery. The finding lends support to expanding a pilot program that lets people use food stamp benefits to pay for those groceries. (svetikd/Getty Images)
NPR
Economic Development
Food & Drink

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

Firefighters battle the rowhome blaze in South Philly on Thursday, Dec. 19TWITTER / @PHILLYFIREDEPT
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Billy Penn

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

Jack Schreppler, the 'disorganizer' of the Hummers parade, stands at the corner of Cass and Cochran in Middletown, Delaware, where the parade began in 1971. (John Mussoni/WHYY)
Delaware

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

Firefighters walk through a smoke haze on South Beulah Street, checking on residents near the scene of a 3-alarm fire in the 1400 block of South 8th Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Safety

At least two people presumed dead in South Philadelphia rowhouse fire, search for missing residents continues

A block of South Philadelphia is battling a fire after a rowhouse collapsed in flames.

6 years ago

Chris Cotton and Vernon Keith Ruffin Jr. (Courtesy Vernon Keith Ruffin, Jr.)
Comedy
National
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Eulogies for Chris Cotton, the Philly comedian who died of an embolism

Reflection services are set for Dec. 21.

6 years ago

Starr Cummin Bright, a gunshot survivor, speaks with state Sen. Tom Killion, R-Delaware/Chester, ahead of a panel discussion on Oct. 1, 2019, at the Chadds Ford Township Municipal Building. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Law
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

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.

6 years ago

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