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Young fan who went viral gets to meet Bryson Stott, Phillies

PHILADELPHIA — Last Sunday, Phillies shortstop Bryson Stott stepped up to the plate with the game and a series sweep of the Angels on the line. The Phillies were losing, 7-6, and down to their final out. Stott saw five pitches and worked his way to a 3-2 count.

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Late comedian Bob Saget gets Netflix tribute ‘Dirty Daddy’

A few months after his death, local legendary comedian Bob Saget is getting a documentary on Netflix about his life and legacy, put together by the friends and fellow comedians who knew him best.

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Will Bunch: ‘The most relief to the most people’: Sen. Warren’s plea for wiping out $50,000 in student debt

Sen. Elizabeth Warren may have entered politics as a Harvard Law professor, but her case for a massive elimination of up to $50,000 in debt for America’s 45 million student-loan holders is deeply rooted in a different discipline: math.

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Philly’s mayor says he has a $184M antiviolence strategy. Some elected officials say the plan is inadequate

It was her daughter’s prom weekend, and Kendra Brooks had finally sat down to relax on Saturday night. Then her phone started dinging. Shots fired. South Street. A crowd of hundreds. A dozen people hit. Maybe more.

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A school reflects on a full year with mandatory masks: ‘We’re used to it’

First grader Khamoni Davis-Victor kept her face mask tucked under her chin as she munched on lunch Wednesday in the cafeteria at Yorkship Elementary School in Camden, New Jersey.

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Editorial: Increasing oil and gas well inspections is a crucial step toward addressing climate change

With public schools implementing early dismissals during a recent heat wave that included record temperatures, with city residents bracing for the next occurrence of an extreme storm like Hurricane Ida, and with worsening air quality in Philadelphia overall, climate change and pollution remain a growing threat to the region.

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Rep. Scott Perry asked Trump for a pardon after Jan. 6, committee leader says as hearings open

U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., one of the leading figures in the effort to throw out Pennsylvania’s votes in the 2020 presidential election, was one of several members of Congress who contacted the White House seeking a pardon from Donald Trump in the days after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack…

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Red-hot Phillies sweep Brewers for seventh straight victory

MILWAUKEE — It’s been a week since Dave Dombrowski woke up, went for a jog, and decided to fire Joe Girardi.

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US Supreme Court won’t block a lower-court order to count undated Pa. mail ballots

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday lifted an order that had injected uncertainty into the debate over whether undated mail ballots should be counted in Pennsylvania elections.

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2 more Philly shooting suspects taken into custody, expected to face murder charges

PHILADELPHIA — Two teens accused of fatally shooting bystanders during Saturday’s mass shooting on South Street were taken into custody Thursday by US Marshals in Richmond, Virginia, the Philadelphia district attorney’s office said.

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Can Haji Wright be the U.S. men’s soccer team’s answer at striker?

AUSTIN, Texas — Five months before the World Cup, the U.S. men’s soccer team has a striking problem.

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Philly-area home builders continue to struggle even as buyer demand slows

Home builders are ordering from Kieffer's Appliances in Lansdale, Pennsylvania before they break ground. For some products, there's a yearlong wait.

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Philly is grieving after the South Street mass shooting. Grief is normal, but experts worry about ‘stuck inside’ feelings

PHILADELPHIA — Veronica Rex is no stranger to grief. She lost her daughter and son-in-law in separate murders in 2009, and her son in another murder in 2018 — leaving 10 of her 15 grandchildren missing a parent.

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'I wanted to destroy everything:' Former semipro wrestler from South Jersey rallies after descent into addiction and crime

PHILADELPHIA — On the day Donnie Hart nearly died, he crawled from the wreckage of a single-car accident and inched along for hours with a broken jaw and shattered leg to get help.

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The EPA is dunking giant ‘pool skimmers’ in Philly river to suck out trash — and figure how much plastic waste is in the water

PHILADELPHIA — A black canister with yellow filter inside — resembling a cross between a trash can and big pool skimmer — was dunked in the Schuylkill River at Bartram’s Garden park in Philadelphia and emptied daily from May to June to see what it would catch.

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Bryson Stott leads the way as Phillies dominate Brewers, 10-0, for sixth straight win

MILWAUKEE — Bryson Stott can admit the truth now. He put too much pressure on himself at the beginning of the season. Not only did he make the team out of spring training, but he was the Phillies’ opening-day third baseman. It was a lot for a rookie who had…

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Clerical error allowed Philly shooter to get a carry permit, despite earlier gun arrest

PHILADELPHIA — When Gregory Jackson arrived on South Street on Saturday, he brought a handgun he was licensed to carry. And he fired that gun, prosecutors said, to settle a dispute with another man, sparking a deadly mass shooting that tore through one of Philadelphia’s most popular nightlife hubs.

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The Pa. Senate race recount is complete, and the results show accuracy of first vote count

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s recount is over, and the results are clear: The vote count was accurate the first time.

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Marcus Hayes: Dave Dombrowski exterminates Phillies’ dysfunction

PHILADELPHIA — When the Phillies got rid of Joe Girardi before breakfast on Friday morning, they found themselves. They scored 26 runs in three games, their second-highest run total in three straight games this season. Except this time they did it without their starting second baseman, their starting shortstop, and…

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Trudy Rubin: Putin’s new war crime: Starving world’s poor by blocking Ukraine’s grain exports

You may think you’ve seen every horror in Russia’s kit of war crimes against Ukraine (short of weapons of mass destruction).

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Editorial: The mass shooting on South Street is a stark reminder of Philly's thwarted efforts to tighten gun laws

Saturday night's mass shooting in Philadelphia — added to the recent carnage in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, Ames, Iowa, and Chattanooga, Tennessee — has renewed desperate pleas for commonsense gun safety measures.

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Bohm and newly-arrived Vierling power Phils to fifth straight win, 3-2, with 9th-inning homers off Brewers ace Hader

MILWAUKEE — Just when you thought the Phillies had run out of ninth-inning magic, or that they left Rob Thomson’s pixie dust at home, they recorded their most improbable victory of the season against the most unhittable closer in baseball.

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Mike Sielski: The rebuilt Rangers are the model for the team the Flyers could have been

The team was coached by Alain Vigneault, and the team was going nowhere. After years of pushing, pushing, pushing, trying its damnedest to win a Stanley Cup, the team would finish dead last in the NHL’s Metropolitan Division, eighth out of eight, and collect a paltry 77 points. The team…

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Mayor Kenney says Philly is ‘doing everything it can’ as probe into mass shooting continues

PHILADELPHIA — A defiant Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney appeared publicly Tuesday for the first time since the deadly South Street mass shooting, meeting with frustrated business owners and saying the city is “doing everything it can” to fight ongoing gun violence.

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When will John Fetterman be back on the campaign trail? His return could still be weeks away

PHILADELPHIA — Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s campaign released its first television ads of the general election Tuesday, touting him as a candidate without traditional labels who would fight for Pennsylvanians in the U.S. Senate.

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