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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.

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How the Pa. Republican establishment broke itself trying to stop Doug Mastriano

On a rainy Friday earlier this month, several leading Republican candidates for governor drove to Westmoreland County in western Pennsylvania for former President Donald Trump’s rally that evening.

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GOP staffers fired for ballot harvesting

GOP group says it was just trying to help but voters say they never signed off for GOP to collect their ballots

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Republicans respond to potential South Philly ‘ballot harvesting’ by GOP operative with firings, campaign attacks

PHILADELPHIA — The fallout from the discovery of a potential GOP “ballot harvesting” operation in South Philadelphia continued Tuesday, as two state party staffers lost their jobs, the matter became fodder for attacks in the Republican primary for governor, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed to define…

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Dozens of mail ballots are going to a GOP ward leader’s South Philly P.O. box, raising ‘ballot harvesting’ concerns

PHILADELPHIA — A mail ballot mystery is unfolding at an otherwise unremarkable post office box in South Philadelphia.

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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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Everything to know about John Fetterman's 2013 incident with a jogger

PHILADELPHIA — In the first Pennsylvania Democratic Senate debate to feature all three major candidates, moderators asked Lt. Gov. John Fetterman a question about a January day in 2013. He had pursued a man and pulled a shotgun on him. Would he do anything differently today?

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29 people died in Philly jails in the pandemic. City officials say they did a ‘good job’

PHILADELPHIA — As he watched his blood soak through the last of his makeshift bandages and puddle on the floor, Mark Subher wondered if he would die in his jail cell in Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Northeast Philadelphia.

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John Fetterman still has a huge cash advantage in the Pa. Senate race, even after Conor Lamb's best quarter

PHILADELPHIA — A turbulent few weeks and hard-hitting attacks have done little to change one of the persistent realities of Pennsylvania's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate: John Fetterman has a crucial money lead.

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Now we know how much Mehmet Oz and David McCormick are personally spending on their Pa. Senate campaigns

PHILADELPHIA — It's good to be a front-runner. Or just incredibly wealthy.

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Keneth Gainwell is planning to ‘go off’ in year-2 with the Eagles

Dual-threat RB Keneth Gainwell has huge expectations for year two with the Philadelphia Eagles

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The pandemic has made warehouses more valuable than suburban offices, as workers stay home

The old Charming Shoppes headquarters in Bensalem — a township bordering northeast Philadelphia — is now an Amazon warehouse. A former Bank of New York Mellon back office in King of Prussia is making a similar transition. And the building housing Oldies.com, a pop-music shrine viewable from the Blue Route…

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Nick Sirianni's aggressiveness was sure to please Jeffrey Lurie, but is the Eagles coach driven by analytics?

Asked before last season how aggressive he would be on fourth downs, Nick Sirianni divulged little about his plans for competitive reasons. Even as the Eagles coach's first year unfolded, it was difficult to get a grip on his to-go-for-it-or-not philosophy. He at times alternately appeared progressive and conservative.

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Jeffrey Lurie claims not to be the meddlesome Eagles owner others describe

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Since Jeffrey Lurie became the Eagles’ owner in 1994, his team has drafted nearly 250 players, signed and re-signed more than a thousand, made manifold evaluations and roster decisions, and only three times, he recalled Tuesday, has he ever pushed for a particular outcome.

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The Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals were once the best soccer team in America. Now, they’re working to save war victims

PHILADELPHIA -- Back in their heyday in the 1960s, when there was no better soccer team in America, when their dominance on the field was a Philly-sized thumb in the eyes of Soviet oppressors, the Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals were known to many of their fans simply as “Nasha Druzhyna.”

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A star is born: How James Harden morphed from ‘nothing special’ to a generational talent

LOS ANGELES — When James Harden walked into the Artesia High School gym the summer of 2003, then-coach Scott Pera said the freshman-to-be was “nothing special.”

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‘Time to level up’: Inside DeVonta Smith’s 5 a.m. workouts and how he embraces a future with Eagles

TAMPA, Fla. — DeVonta Smith is out of breath. He’s sprawled on the ground with his back lying flat against the all-black turf and his head facing directly toward the bright spotlights affixed across the ceiling. Sweat stains are scattered all over his drenched T-shirt, and the veins running through…

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Deer are leaping to their deaths in northwest Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA — It’s raining deer in a small northwestern Pennsylvania town, and residents say that’s both disgusting and dangerous.

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How Doc Rivers’ Orlando Magic roots launched a coaching career that landed him on list of NBA’s best

ORLANDO, Fla. — Before the start of the 1999-2000 season, Doc Rivers gathered the Orlando Magic players at midcourt during practice. He shared that Sports Illustrated had projected their team to challenge the 1972-73 Sixers, who went 9-73, for the worst record in NBA history.

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California man touts business empire built of Philly rowhouses bought at sheriff's sales. Some are skeptical

When Tylisha Slaughter learned that the West Philadelphia rowhouse she rented was going to be auctioned off in a sheriff's sale, she sensed opportunity.

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Philadelphia's storied NPR affiliate has lost half its journalists. Many complain about pay, morale and lack of innovation

Thirty-four WHYY journalists signed a letter to top managers last February complaining about how they were running the newsroom at the biggest public media outlet in the Philadelphia region.

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What James Harden brings to the Sixers after blockbuster trade with the Brooklyn Nets

PHILADELPHIA — After months of pursuit, James Harden is finally a member of the 76ers. The Sixers and Nets completed a trade Thursday that swapped two disgruntled stars, sending Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round draft picks to Brooklyn in exchange for Harden and Paul Millsap, The…

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'Absolutely repulsive': Philly police commissioner slams cops who abuse injured-on-duty benefits

PHILADELPHIA — Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has vowed to investigate and punish Philadelphia police officers who are abusing a generous state disability benefit at a time when hundreds of officers say they are too injured to work.

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