PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia City Council is considering a proposal that would allow the city to fill vacancies — including in the Police Department — with retired employees who could continue receiving pension payments while also earning a paycheck. Th…
McCormick and Oz are fighting over tiny batches of votes in county after county. That’s how tight the Pa. GOP Senate primary is
PHILADELPHIA — Every vote matters. With a razor-thin margin separating celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick in the Republican Senate primary and a recount officially announced, their armies of lawyers have fanned out acr…
Four people shot to death and eight others wounded Wednesday in Philly
PHILADELPHIA — Four people were killed and eight others were wounded by gunfire in Philadelphia on Wednesday, including four victims in a quadruple shooting in Mantua. A 20-year-old man was shot multiple times on West Erie Avenue in North Philadelphia …
75 people have been killed in US school shootings since 2018
PHILADELPHIA — The shooting at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday was among 28 fatal shooting incidents at U.S. schools or on school grounds since 2018, resulting in the deaths of 75 people, including 60 children, according to data from Education Wee…
Q&A: Everything to know about the Pa. Senate race, recount rules, undated mail ballots and more
Pennsylvania primary election day is over, but we still don’t know the winner of the Republican Senate race. With a dental floss-thin margin between celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick, the election is almost certainly …
David Murphy: Can Mickey Moniak save the Phillies in center field? He says he’s ready to try.
READING, Penn. — Wearing a bright red big-league batting helmet atop a black minor league uniform, Mickey Moniak looked more like a plot device than a rehabbing center fielder as he dug into the batter’s box on Tuesday morning. The sky was gray and the…
Court battles over ballots in the McCormick-Oz Pennsylvania Senate race have split the GOP
PHILADELPHIA — The national and state Republican parties vowed Tuesday to oppose GOP Senate candidate David McCormick in his lawsuit seeking to have potentially hundreds of contested mail ballots counted in his neck-and-neck primary race against Mehmet…
Eagles’ Josh Sweat talks about the life-threatening situation that sidelined him in January
On Tuesday afternoon, Eagles defensive end Josh Sweat shared additional details about the bizarre injury that kept him out of the team’s playoff game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in January. Leading up to the wild-card round, the Eagles announced t…
RNC sides with Mehmet Oz in dispute over undated mail ballots
PHILADELPHIA — The Republican National Committee says it will intervene to oppose David McCormick’s lawsuit to count undated mail ballots in the ongoing vote count for the GOP Senate primary. RNC chair Ronna McDaniel said in a tweet that the national c…
Two towns in rural Pennsylvania are giving remote workers free housing for a month, in the hopes they’ll stay longer
BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania — When the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Central Florida and workers settled in, remotely, at their kitchen tables or makeshift offices, Lauren Beal began to think of this walkable town she loved in rural Pennsylvania. Beal, …