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Pandemic's impact on the boardwalks' free-sample tradition at the Jersey Shore

PHILADELPHIA — For more than 20 years, Tom Curyto’s voice beckoned to vacationers traversing boardwalks in New Jersey's Wildwood and Ocean City.

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Phillies fall again, 4-3, as Cubs sweep series

PHILADELPHIA — This has been an abysmal three games for the Phillies. A week ago, they completed a sweep of the Marlins in Miami, something they hadn’t done since 2010. It was a series so impactful that it left fans and media wondering if this team was truly different.

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Welcome to come, but not to work. Ukrainians fleeing war can’t get job permits in the US

PHILADELPHIA — Liliia Kravtsova fled the Ukrainian seaport city of Odesa as bombs exploded and people died, leaving behind her law practice and seeking safety in the United States.

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Phillies waste solid Zack Wheeler outing in 10th-inning collapse against Cubs

PHILADELPHIA — When the Phillies swept the Marlins in Miami just before the All-Star break, they were playing pristine baseball. They committed no errors during that series. In their first game, they gutted out a 2-1 win despite an uncharacteristically shaky performance from closer Seranthony Domínguez. That didn’t feel like…

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A record high, maybe 100, on tap for Philly on Sunday as the heat wave crests

PHILADELPHIA — After the hottest day of the year, for an encore Philadelphia could experience its hottest day in a decade on Sunday as temperatures make a run at a record-breaking 100, or about 10 degrees higher than it is expected to be in Miami.

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Black family snubbed at Sesame Place Philadelphia calls on park owners to turn incident into ‘teachable moment’

PHILADELPHIA — The family of two young Black girls who are seemingly snubbed by a costumed character at Sesame Place Philadelphia in a viral video last week stepped up pressure on Saturday for the amusement park to turn the incident into a “teachable moment” about racial bias.

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Bernard Hopkins’ Hall of Fame career started with a visit in prison from a boxing ref named Rudy Battle

PHILADELPHIA — The sneakers his mother sent had not yet arrived, forcing Bernard Hopkins to leave Graterford in 1988 while still wearing his state-issued prison boots. He spent five years in prison after being arrested when he was 17 years old. As he left, the warden told Hopkins he would…

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‘Bloodsicles,’ water, and mud wallowing: How Philadelphia Zoo animals keep cool in the heat wave

PHILADELPHIA — Humans aren’t the only ones feeling the heat.

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$500K Harriet Tubman statue controversy gets national attention, prompts a petition, and elicits the sculptor’s response

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s controversy over awarding a direct commission for a permanent Harriet Tubman monument has aroused widespread national interest and a split among the city’s own statue advisory committee.

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Mike Sielski: If the Sixers want to build a downtown arena, they and Philadelphia have to answer some questions first

PHILADELPHIA — Here is what we know about the plan, put forth by the 76ers’ managing partners, to build an NBA arena at 10th and Market Streets. We know that the partners are estimating, for now, that the arena will cost $1.3 billion to construct. We know that the partners…

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Sesame Place ‘wholeheartedly’ apologizes to Black family snubbed by actor in Rosita costume

PHILADELPHIA — Sesame Place offered a new apology to the family of the two young Black girls who were seemingly snubbed by a costumed character at the park, this time saying they “wholeheartedly apologize” and renewing a pledge to institute mandatory diversity training.

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Philadelphia's weird connection to Jordan Peele's 'Nope'

PHILADELPHIA — With "Nope" now in theaters, it looks like director Jordan Peele has yet another hit on his hands, following the massive success of "Get Out" and "Us." While we expected Peele's latest directorial effort to be good, we didn't expect to find a Philadelphia connection to the movie.

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John Fetterman inches back onto the campaign trail in Philly with first fund-raiser appearances since stroke

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, largely absent from the campaign trail for two months, is slowly resuming his campaign following a stroke that nearly killed him.

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Trudy Rubin: We can win if West helps us close our skies to Russian attack, Ukraine defense minister says

KYIV, Ukraine — The day before I interviewed Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, Russian missiles slammed into a business district in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, far from the front line or any military target.

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Editorial: Counting the cost of America's fickle fascination with space travel

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Helen Ubiñas: Philly mayor’s latest comments hurt thousands of families of homicide victims

PHILADELPHIA — I didn’t come for Mayor Jim Kenney when he stepped in it a couple of weeks ago.

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A Pa. Capitol rioter who said she wanted to shoot Pelosi just won an election. Now, she’s headed to prison

The former owner of a Bucks County CrossFit gym who recorded herself during the storming of the Capitol saying she was looking for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “to shoot her in the friggin’ brain” was sentenced to 60 days incarceration on Thursday.

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A Jewish Republican group is denouncing Doug Mastriano’s links to an extremist social-media site

PHILADELPHIA — Doug Mastriano is facing blistering criticism from Jewish leaders — Democrats and Republicans — following the disclosure that he’s using Gab, a social-media site favored by extremists and antisemites, to advertise his Republican campaign for governor.

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Pa. state university system will chase non-traditional students to boost enrollment under next phase of redesign

With the merger of six of its schools in effect, Pennsylvania's state university system is looking ahead to the next phase of its redesign, including how to lure adults to enroll who have some college but no degree.

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David Murphy: James Harden gives $14 million reasons to give him the benefit of the doubt

PHILADELPHIA — The most powerful human emotion is not love or anger or jealousy but shame. That might sound like a bold declaration, but think about the acts committed in its name and you should begin to see its unique ability to both inspire and destroy. Carl Jung’s description of…

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‘We must all hang together’: Doug Mastriano courts a still-standoffish Republican governors group

Doug Mastriano has a habit of quoting from history and angering his fellow Republicans.

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Philly declares an ‘emergency’ as heat wave intensifies, with 100 degrees possible Sunday

PHILADELPHIA — With temperatures forecast to head deep into the 90s for the next several days and with a heat advisory in effect through Sunday — when it might hit 100 — Philadelphia has declared its first “heat health emergency” of the season.

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Redrafting the NFL's 2017 class

PHILADELPHIA — Five years ago, Philadelphia was at the forefront of two major NFL events.

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With new campaign, Philly recruits former smokers to encourage current ones to quit

PHILADELPHIA — A new city antismoking campaign is highlighting Philadelphians' stories about quitting to encourage others to do the same.

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Mom who says daughter and niece were snubbed by Sesame Place’s Rosita speaks out, calls for employee to be fired

PHILADELPHIA — The mother who posted a video of her daughter and niece after they were seemingly snubbed by a costumed character at Sesame Place called for the employee playing the mascot to be fired.

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