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Community

6 Delaware Valley pups to be featured in Puppy Bowl 2021

On Sunday, Feb. 7, Puppy Bowl XVII will feature pups from Providence Animal Center, Match Dog Rescue, and The Center for Animal Health & Welfare.

3 weeks ago

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Money

Beware of fraudsters: How to spot utility power shutoff scams this winter

Before picking up a phone call from an unfamiliar number — here are some tips on spotting scammers pretending to be PECO.

3 weeks ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf addresses the press. in Harrisburg.
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pa. voters will get the last word in struggle between Wolf and lawmakers. Here’s what you need to know.

The state House on Friday gave final approval to a proposed constitutional amendment that would give state lawmakers the power to unilaterally end disaster declarations

3 weeks ago

A couple helps a child on a snow covered embankment at Lorimer Park in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Weather

Montgomery County declares Code Blue; dangerous temperatures forecast for weekend

The Code Blue declaration has been issued for Montgomery County beginning Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, at 9 p.m. and ending on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, at 9 a.m.

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Lt. Gov. John Fetterman gavels in a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate before Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year, Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Sitting on $1.4 million in campaign cash, Fetterman takes another step toward U.S. Senate

The Pa. lieutenant governor and his staff say the filing was simply procedural: He’d raised too much money to continue operating under his existing exploratory committee.

3 weeks ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
Courts & Law

Feds arrest, charge Pa. woman in pink hat during Capitol attack

Rachel Powell, 40, a mother of eight children, stopped short of confirming to The New Yorker magazine this week that she had bashed in a window.

3 weeks ago

A pedestrian walks by the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, June 28, 2019.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania lawmakers advance $912M pandemic relief bill

The money will go to aid hospitality-related businesses hit hard by the coronavirus, private schools and people struggling to pay rent or utility bills.

3 weeks ago

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Health
Spotlight PA

In race for COVID-19 vaccinations, older residents in rural Pa. face tough obstacles

Despite being among the most at risk, some lack transportation, access to chain pharmacies, and internet connections to get vaccine appointments.

3 weeks ago

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Community

Upper Darby and the township workers union are at odds over a no-layoff clause

The union represents the township’s sanitation workers and animal control, parking enforcement, and other non-first responder uniformed employees.

3 weeks ago

A life-size hologram tells the story of 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy Nefrina in the Ancient Civilizations Gallery at the Reading Public Museum
Arts & Entertainment

Reading Public Museum brings its mummy back to life, as a hologram

The Reading Public Museum knows what the Ancient Egyptian woman named Nefrina looked like in 300 B.C., so it recreated her as a hologram.

3 weeks ago

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Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Pa. House moves to get legal relief for clergy abuse victims back on spring ballot

"Human error" by the Department of State derailed a constitutional amendment on whether survivors of decades-old sexual abuse should be able to sue.

3 weeks ago

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Courts & Law

Life without parole for ‘felony murder’: Pa. case targets sentencing law

More than 1,000 people are serving life without parole in Pennsylvania, even though they never intended to kill anyone. Seventy percent of those people are Black.

3 weeks ago

Pennsylvania Secretary Kathy Boockvar, wearing a face mask, addresses the media from behind a podium
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

What the exit of Pa.’s top election official means for the future of voting

Sec. Kathy Boockvar’s resignation has emboldened her fiercest GOP critics, even though it was not related to her handling of the closely watched vote in a battleground state.

3 weeks ago

President Joe Biden signs an executive order in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Biden’s executive orders to examine policies affecting thousand of Pennsylvania immigrants

Local immigrants and activists have greeted Biden’s more measured approach with a mixture of hope and cynicism.

3 weeks ago

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PlanPhilly
Money

Who gets paid more than $200,000 at a part-time job? Some former SEPTA managers

The positions are just a sliver of SEPTA’s 9,400-strong workforce, but the handful of part-timers collectively cost the agency about $1 million a year.

3 weeks ago

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