PHILADELPHIA — Deborah Birx — the Pennsylvania-born government doctor who rose to international prominence during the pandemic — is back in the news, this time promoting her account of her controversial stint as the first coronavirus response coordinat…
David Murphy: The Sixers are in trouble, and it’s on Doc Rivers and James Harden to avoid a historic collapse
Somebody needs to wake up and smell the history, because it’s a hell of a lot closer than anybody with the 76ers seemed to realize after their embarrassing 103-88 no-show of a loss to the Raptors in Game 5. Maybe the onus is on Doc Rivers. Maybe it is …
Marcus Hayes: Ben Simmons a no-show for Nets while Joel Embiid plays through pain for Sixers in the NBA playoffs
PHILADELPHIA — The symmetry could not have been purer. The contrast could not have been starker. On a night when the fate of their 2022 seasons might be told, Joel Embiid, in Philadelphia, went to work. Ben Simmons, in Brooklyn, did not. One showed the…
Pennsylvania nursing home buyers would face more scrutiny under state health proposal
In the most complete revision of its nursing home rules in at least 25 years, the Pennsylvania Department of Health last month proposed new regulations that would require more scrutiny of homes’ prospective owners. For the first time, regulators would …
Philly has a backlog of 34,000 abandoned-car complaints — and the city has no solution
PHILADELPHIA — The party was over in Germantown, but one stretch limo never made it home. Since January, that rusting, silver chauffeur car has been moldering by a community garden on Hansberry Street in the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood, taking …
Flyers’ momentum killed in 3-1 loss to Chicago Blackhawks
CHICAGO — The Flyers ruined their chance to put together a second three-game win streak this season with their 3-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday. Their first and only one was when they beat the Vegas Golden Knights, Arizona Coyotes and New J…
4 takeaways from Monday night’s Pennsylvania Democratic Senate debate
PHILADELPHIA — They don’t want to “defund the police,” but they do want to end the Senate filibuster. Those were some of the positions taken Monday by the four Democrats seeking the party’s nomination for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat. The candi…
Kyle Schwarber’s karmic double caps an offensive outburst for Phillies in 8-2 victory over Rockies
PHILADELPHIA — It took only a few minutes Sunday night for Kyle Schwarber to calm down after blowing his top on national television over home-plate umpire Ángel Hernández’s strike zone. Clearly, though, the Phillies slugger thought he’d been wronged. I…
Everything to know about John Fetterman’s 2013 incident with a jogger
PHILADELPHIA — In the first Pennsylvania Democratic Senate debate to feature all three major candidates, moderators asked Lt. Gov. John Fetterman a question about a January day in 2013. He had pursued a man and pulled a shotgun on him. Would he do anyt…
3 children and 1 man die in Philadelphia house fire
PHILADELPHIA — Three children and one man, believed to be their father, were killed early Sunday morning in a raging house fire in North Philadelphia, authorities said. Heavy fire was visible from both floors of a two-story row house on the 3200 block …