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A Toll Bros. founder sees new business opportunities amid global troubles

Bruce E. Toll, co-founder in 1967 of Fortune 500 homebuilder Toll Bros., has long since diversified his fortune from the Fort Washington-based firm. His firm BET Investments Inc. has bet on health care, medical, information technology and telecom companies. And in Pennsylvania he owns coal fields and auto dealers and…

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Comcast shares drop as subscriber growth slows

Shares of Comcast fell as much as 8% in morning trading, before closing down just over 6% at $41.70, after the Philadelphia-based media giant reported a slowdown in new subscribers, as it spends more to lure them.

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Phillies complete four-game sweep of Rockies behind dominant Zack Wheeler

PHILADELPHIA — J.T. Realmuto stood up from his crouch after catching the last pitch of the sixth inning Thursday and pointed his mitt at Zach Wheeler. His body language couldn’t have been clearer.

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High-profile Temple professor is placed on paid administrative leave while university conducts review

PHILADELPHIA — Sara Goldrick-Rab, one of Temple University's most high-profile and outspoken professors, has been placed on paid administrative leave while the university investigates concerns raised about her leadership.

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Before killing a 12-year-old, a South Philly plainclothes police unit caused frequent chaos, residents say

PHILADELPHIA — Jakir Waters was driving to his mother’s house to baby-sit his 3-year-old brother one morning in early October 2020. First, though, the 19-year-old stopped on a side street in South Philadelphia to see a friend.

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Reparations are a moral calling for these Quakers. First up: Help for Black homeowners

PHILADELPHIA — Tyrone Seldon inherited a house from his father, who died in 2018. Since then, he and his wife, Shawn, have been trying to navigate stacks of paperwork to handle the estate on their own, because they can't afford a lawyer. They got the answers they needed in the…

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Philadelphians exercise less than much of America

PHILADELPHIA -- You know that woman in your office who says she runs five miles every morning and lifts weights three times a week?

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Flyers get shut out by the Winnipeg Jets, 4-0, in second-to-last game of the season

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — After going down 2-0 to the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday night at Canada Life Centre, the Flyers were tasked with the impossible: coming back from a two-goal deficit to win the game.

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Phils’ bats stay on a roll in 7-3 win over the Rockies

PHILADELPHIA — It’s almost certainly a coincidence, but, well, let’s just mention it off the top anyway: Since Kyle Schwarber blew off a bunch of steam a few nights ago, the previously stalled Phillies offense hasn’t ceased chugging along.

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Recreational weed sales in NJ beat expectations on first day

More than 12,000 customers spent nearly $1.9 million on recreational cannabis last Thursday, the first day of legal sales to any adult in New Jersey, the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission said Wednesday.

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If the Sixers choke against the Raptors, where would the collapse rank in Philly sports history?

Don't deny it. You're thinking about it. You wouldn't be a Philadelphia sports fan, full of skepticism and even cynicism, always hedging your hope, if you weren't thinking about it. Yes, the 76ers are still up three games to two on the Raptors in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. Yes, they're…

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Bryce Harper’s ‘achy’ elbow is the latest reason the Phillies are thankful for the addition of the DH

With each day that Bryce Harper still feels what he describes as an “achy” sensation in his right elbow, the Phillies are ever more thankful for a change to the collective bargaining agreement that they favored all along.

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Trump’s ex-COVID-19 adviser, Pa. native Deborah Birx, says disinfectant episode was ‘a tragedy on many levels’

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 coordinator under former President Donald Trump.

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A top GOP candidate for Pa. governor campaigned at an event promoting QAnon and conspiracy theories about 9/11

When candidates for public office indulge in conspiracy theories like QAnon, it’s often with a wink and a nod.

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Editorial: Philadelphia messed up the mask mandate

On April 18, Philadelphia made national news by reinstating the city’s indoor mask mandate even as COVID-19 mitigation efforts were being rescinded elsewhere. Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole told The New York Times, “The thing is, I could be wrong — people two weeks from now could be laughing at me,…

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Elizabeth Wellington: What happens to social justice and culture on Twitter with Elon Musk at the helm?

Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter for $44 billion and plans to take the most influential social media company private, what is the Twitterverse to do?

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‘Ya Fav Trashman’ leads a unique Earth Day observance: Walk, clean, feed

PHILADELPHIA -- What he believes was Philadelphia’s first 5K Earth Day Trash Walk came to Terrill Haigler in a moment of morning inspiration.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Reports of aggravated assault and robbery on Philly transit soared during the pandemic as ridership fell

PHILADELPHIA — Robberies and aggravated assaults jumped more than 80% on the Philadelphia region’s public transit system from 2019 to 2021 even as it was at times carrying fewer than half the number of passengers who rode buses, trains, and trolleys in the last pre-COVID year.

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A fire killed four people in a rowhouse with no smoke detectors. Thousands of Philly rentals lack similar oversight

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia rowhouse that burned early Sunday morning, killing a tenant and his three children, lacked a rental license and smoke detectors — lapses that went unnoticed for years in a city with no comprehensive inspection policy for rentals.

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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.

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M. Night Shyamalan is filming his new movie in Philadelphia area

PHILADELPHIA — M. Night Shyamalan has announced he officially started filming his 15th movie, the mysteriously named "Knock at the Cabin," and production will take place in and around Philadelphia and in South Jersey.

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Elizabeth Wellington: With more women behind the camera, more men are baring it all on screen

When a man texts a pic of his junk in a lame effort to turn me on, I delete it. But if I catch a glimpse of full-frontal nudity on cable TV or in a film, it feels delightfully naughty.

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