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The Sell family wanted to keep their Montgomery County home, despite Ida's damage. So they made a drastic decision: Lift the house higher than future floodwaters would likely rise. → Read More
West Philadelphia residents who are camped out to protest their displacement from University City Townhomes and supporters have been ordered by a judge to leave by 9 a.m. Monday. → Read More
Authorities were still attempting to determine who fired a gun during Monday night’s Independence Day celebrations, in a shooting that injured two officers and caused the evacuation of the Parkway. → Read More
Investigators did not have a suspect or a motive for the shooting by early Tuesday morning. → Read More
Pennsylvania members of Congress are hoping to prevent other deadly blazes with new legislation that would require hardwired or tamper-resistant smoke alarms in public housing. → Read More
“Yesterday was a dark day for Philadelphia,” Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said, calling the shooting an atrocity. → Read More
The Thursday fire did not release toxic compounds at levels that would threaten human health, city health officials said. → Read More
Hurricane season is here again, and for Philadelphia-area residents, the memory of Ida is still fresh. As climate change supercharges severe weather events, seasonal anxiety is becoming more common. → Read More
19 children and two teachers were killed and several other children were shot and injured in a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. → Read More
With both a Senate seat and the governor’s office up for grabs in 2022, voters in both parties said they saw the primary races as high-stakes for a nation in turmoil. → Read More
New Jersey health officials are attributing the increase in cases in part to the high transmissibility of the two variants. → Read More
The emissions coming off the site could have posed a threat to human health, based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s “action level” for benzene. → Read More
Among the 100 biggest U.S. cities, three-quarters have more funding per capita for park systems than Philadelphia. → Read More
The 15-year-old was not injured. → Read More
A 60-year-old man was stabbed three times on a street in Kensington on Wednesday night, police said. An arrest was made, the Philadelphia Police Department said. The man was stabbed in the face, shoulder, and chest on the 2000 block of East Victoria Street. He was taken to Temple University Hospital and was in stable condition, police said. → Read More
The woman was released from the hospital after being stabbed around 4:30 p.m. → Read More
Police were looking for a teen suspect. → Read More
The Supreme Court case’s outcome is particularly high-stakes for Pennsylvania and other battleground states. Some also predicted it could portend a broader restriction of civil rights. → Read More
The Supreme Court voted to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that has protected abortion rights, according to a majority opinion drafted in February and obtained by Politico. → Read More
Robert W. Sanger, a 62-year-old subcontractor, fell from a lift while working on the Ocean City boardwalk. → Read More