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Mayor Cherelle L. Parker delivers the "State of the City" address at Temple’s Performing Arts Center Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Politics

Mayor Cherelle Parker marks the end of her first year in office with Philly’s first ‘State of the City’ speech at Temple

“We are literally starting to show results for the people of Philadelphia," Mayor Cherelle L. Parker said.

Sean Collins Walsh

Pictures of building and land that is 7979 State Rd. Philadelphia, PA 19136. For story about City of Philadelphia building a “Wellness Village” at this site. Photograph taken on Wednesday morning June 5, 2024.

Philadelphia Politics

The Parker administration’s drug treatment facility will open early next year, mayor says

Ricky Austin, 52, lives at a South Philadelphia recovery home after battling opioid addiction for decades.

More older Black men in Philadelphia are dying of overdoses than many other places in the U.S.: ‘It’s like a secret disease’

Aubrey Whelan and Joe Yerardi

Skaters on the ice at the Rothman Orthopaedics Ice Rink at City Hall’s Dilworth Park in Philadelphia on Dec, 14.

Crime & Justice

A third teen suspect in the Dilworth Park shooting has been arrested, while police still search for the shooter

Rodrigo Torrejón

John DiMarco places a sign outside the junior high entrance for students at Woodbury Junior and Senior High School informing parents their children’s phones are locked during school hours. This program to keep kids off their phones during school started this school year.

Should New Jersey public schools restrict cell phones during class? A bill would require schools to create their own policies.

Ivonne Pinto-García writes on a chalkboard “Bienvenidas” (Wecome) at the table of hand-crocheted goods. She is with her daughter Sophia Mogollan-Pinto (on the other side of the sign) during the Expo Posada y Tianguis Sunday at Bok in South Philadelphia. The event provided an opportunity for Mexican and Latino entrepreneurs to exhibit and sell their unique crafts, ideal for Christmas, Three Kings Day and Valentine's Day gifts.

The Latino Christmas market returns to Bok, this time with mixed feelings about what the next 4 years can bring

“We are not here to hurt anyone, we are simply here to build a life for ourselves and help the city we call home grow,” said David Piña, owner of Tamalex Mexican restaurant.

Michelle Myersan hour ago

Sang Kee Peking Duck House has been a Philadelphia staple since 1980.

Chinatown’s Sang Kee Peking Duck House has reopened after city-imposed shutdown

Michelle Myers and Michael Klein

Amy Muncy, 29, of Baltimore, lays out quilts for the Homeless Memorial Blanket Project near Independence Hall.

Philadelphia News

Homeless Memorial Blanket at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall

Samantha Melamed

Jose Rios of Philadelphia stands by a short dumping site around Westmoreland and Rosehill Streets on Friday.

Year One of the Kensington crackdown tackled chaos head-on — and pushed it down the street

Max Marin and Dylan Purcell

A smartphone photographer captures freshly fallen snow along Evans Pond on the border of Cherry Hill and Haddonfield in February. A similar scene could occur Saturday, the first day of winter.

Up to 3 inches of snow reported in the Philly region ahead of a frigid solstice weekend

Anthony R. Wood

The principal of Rustin High School in the West Chester Area School District resigned last week, and district officials say he is facing a law enforcement investigation.

A West Chester principal who resigned last week is facing a law enforcement investigation

Norristown Police Chief Jacqueline Bailey-Davis, talks with Kendra Van de Water, co-founder of YEAH Philly, Ray Jones, and Tyler Wood after a pitch contest at REC Philly in Philadelphia on Aug. 12, 2024. Teens from different organizations put together videos and presentations to reduce gun violence.

Norristown police chief resigns after less than a year as top cop

Rodrigo Torrejón

The principal of Rustin High School in the West Chester Area School District resigned last week, and district officials say he is facing a law enforcement investigation.

A West Chester principal who resigned last week is facing a law enforcement investigation

Norristown Police Chief Jacqueline Bailey-Davis, talks with Kendra Van de Water, co-founder of YEAH Philly, Ray Jones, and Tyler Wood after a pitch contest at REC Philly in Philadelphia on Aug. 12, 2024. Teens from different organizations put together videos and presentations to reduce gun violence.

Norristown police chief resigns after less than a year as top cop

Rodrigo Torrejón

A fox is being temporarily housed at the home of volunteer Kathleen Cuneo in Audubon on Dec. 16, 2024. Animal and wildlife lover Luke Ogden started a nonprofit fox rescue - An Itch in Time - to catch foxes suffering from mange and bring them to wildlife rehabs. He named this fox Baron, as it was captured in the Pine Barrens.

South Jersey’s red foxes are dying from mange. This man is here to save them.

The GEICO Skytypers Air Show Team flying World War II era SNJ aircraft. They will be performing at the 2021 Atlantic City Air Show. Photographs taken during media tour and flight on Monday, August 16, 2021. The planes are piloted Chris Thomas, 2, Steve Salmirs, 1, and Chris Orr, 6.

Atlantic City Airshow canceled again for 2025

Amy S. Rosenberg

A fox is being temporarily housed at the home of volunteer Kathleen Cuneo in Audubon on Dec. 16, 2024. Animal and wildlife lover Luke Ogden started a nonprofit fox rescue - An Itch in Time - to catch foxes suffering from mange and bring them to wildlife rehabs. He named this fox Baron, as it was captured in the Pine Barrens.

South Jersey’s red foxes are dying from mange. This man is here to save them.

The GEICO Skytypers Air Show Team flying World War II era SNJ aircraft. They will be performing at the 2021 Atlantic City Air Show. Photographs taken during media tour and flight on Monday, August 16, 2021. The planes are piloted Chris Thomas, 2, Steve Salmirs, 1, and Chris Orr, 6.

Atlantic City Airshow canceled again for 2025

Amy S. Rosenberg

National Politics

Biden signs bill that averts a government shutdown and brings a close to days of Washington upheaval

President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law that averts a government shutdown

Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, and Matt Brown, Associated Press

The Capitol is pictured in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Capitol is pictured in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Politics

Biden signs bill that averts a government shutdown and brings a close to days of Washington upheaval

President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law that averts a government shutdown

Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, and Matt Brown, Associated Press

Germans mourn the 5 killed and 200 injured in the apparent attack on a Christmas market

Kirsten Grieshaber, Geir Moulson and Vanessa Gera, Associated Press

Citizens pay tribute and cry for deaths outside St. John's Church near a Christmas Market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noorozi)

Government funding bill clears Congress and heads to President Biden, averting a shutdown

Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, and Matt Brown, Associated Press

President-elect Donald Trump

Starbucks workers begin strikes that could spread to hundreds of U.S. stores by Christmas Eve

Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press

Shoppers pass a Starbucks kiosk at the Walden Galleria in Buffalo in November.

It’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel

David Koenig, Associated Press

Passengers line up at the security checkpoint in Pittsburgh International Airport earlier this month.

Former Camden School Advisory Board president Wasim Muhammad resigned in September after the district reached a $2 million settlement in a civil lawsuit by his former student who alleged he sexually abused her when he was her teacher.

N.J. state investigation declares ‘substantiated findings’ after sexual abuse allegations by a former Camden student

Wasim Muhammad was not identified by name in the letter to Saleema Robinson, but his attorney confirmed he received a letter from the Department of Children and Families.

The principal of Rustin High School in the West Chester Area School District resigned last week, and district officials say he is facing a law enforcement investigation.

A West Chester principal who resigned last week is facing a law enforcement investigation

John DiMarco places a sign outside the junior high entrance for students at Woodbury Junior and Senior High School informing parents their children’s phones are locked during school hours. This program to keep kids off their phones during school started this school year.

Should New Jersey public schools restrict cell phones during class? A bill would require schools to create their own policies.

The School District of Philadelphia District Headquarters building at 440 North Broad Street.

Philly School District has not adequately investigated claims of antisemitism and other harassment, feds say, as district agrees to a resolution

Kristen A. Graham

The pool at Upper Darby High School will require significant structural repairs to stay in operation, administrators told the community this week.

Upper Darby will need millions to keep its high school pool running — but school leaders are committed to keeping it open

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