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Pete Rose on critics of his appearance with the 1980 Phillies team: ‘It was 55 years ago, babe.’

PHILADELPHIA — Pete Rose returned to Philadelphia on Sunday as part of a celebration of the 1980 Phillies World Series team and deflected a question about whether his presence sends a negative message to women.

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Before Bill Russell tormented Wilt Chamberlain, he established his immortality against another Philly legend

PHILADELPHIA — It’s a testament to Bill Russell that one of the most underrated aspects of his life is that he revolutionized college basketball. His work and activism within the civil rights movement, his remarkable career with the Boston Celtics, his well-earned status as the greatest winner in North American…

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Rhys Hoskins, J.T. Realmuto lead another Phillies rout of bottom-dwelling Nationals

PHILADELPHIA — Rhys Hoskins has been hot at the plate lately. Scorching, actually. Like this boiling-soup summer weather.

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10 years ago, Garrett Reid’s death at training camp at Lehigh forever altered the Eagles

PHILADELPHIA — It didn’t take long to realize something was awry. Andy Reid was nowhere to be seen and the Eagles were huddled, most on one knee, bent over as if in prayer.

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Five years after his death, Darren Daulton is inspiring cancer patients the way he did the 1993 Phillies

PHILADELPHIA — Tommy Greene made 30 starts for the 1993 Phillies, taking the ball almost every fifth day as a workhorse pitcher for the National League champions.

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Kyle Gibson flirts with perfect game and the Phillies hit five homers in 7-2 win over Nationals

PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Gibson stepped on the mound Friday night at Citizens Bank Park, nine days since his last outing, one day after coming off the bereavement list, and delivered one of the best starts of his 10-year career in the Phillies’ 7-2 wiin over the Washington Nationals.

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Philly health department’s new lab a key resource for tracking COVID

PHILADELPHIA — A newly opened lab gives the Philadelphia Department of Public Health the technology to identify COVID-19 variants, a long-awaited resource with the potential to also track other health hazards, from E. coli to syphilis.

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John Fetterman will hold his first public event in the Pennsylvania Senate race since having a stroke

PHILADELPHIA — Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat, next week will hold his first public campaign event since having a stroke that nearly killed him four days before the May primary.

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What the Kansas abortion vote means for a constitutional amendment effort in Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Democrats are pointing to this week’s victory for abortion rights in Kansas as a harbinger for the Keystone State, where a similar ballot question could be considered by voters as early as next year.

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This week in history: Bodies of 3 Freedom Summer workers found in Mississippi

On Aug. 5, 1964, authorities located the murdered bodies of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner — three Freedom Summer workers in Meridian, Miss. — in a shallow grave in nearby Philadelphia, Miss. Here’s how the Chicago Daily News covered the tragedy.

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Marcus Hayes: Jalen Hurts realizes he must Trust the Processing for the Eagles

PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts knows where his salvation lies.

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Tips from three mental health providers about making sure your therapist is the best match

PHILADELPHIA -- What makes a good relationship between a patient and a mental health provider? It starts with a good match.

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Noah Syndergaard wins his rain-shortened Phillies debut, 5-4, over the Nationals

PHILADELPHIA — It was fitting that a thunderstorm passed through South Philadelphia on the night right-handed starter Noah Syndergaard was scheduled to make his Phillies debut.

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Phillies’ Bryce Harper: No pain throwing but focused on getting his ‘swing going’

PHILADELPHIA — In his first week of taking swings and throwing since getting three pins removed from his left thumb, Bryce Harper said he has felt pain-free. His priority is to get his swing going so he can get back in the Phillies lineup and hopes to return by “September-ish,”…

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NJ sues Monsanto over ‘reckless’ PCB contamination, including along Delaware River

PHILADELPHIA — The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection filed suit Thursday against Monsanto for “extensive damage” caused by PCB contamination, citing “reckless long-term discharge of” polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) statewide and noting pollution from a company facility in Gloucester County on the Delaware River.

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Phillies release veteran shortstop Didi Gregorius

PHILADELPHIA — Didi Gregorius’ days with the Phillies are over.

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Comcast workers told to come back to office in-person 3 days a week

PHILADELPHIA — Comcast told employees it’s time to come back to work — in person.

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3 men killed, 2 others wounded in separate Philly shootings

PHILADELPHIA — Three men were killed and two others were wounded in separate shootings Wednesday night across Philadelphia, police said.

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John Fetterman’s parents gave him money into his 40s. Republicans say that undercuts his blue-collar image

PHILADELPHIA — In his ads, and much of the public imagination, John Fetterman is a tattooed everyman from a rugged steel city outside Pittsburgh.

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Mike Sielski: Eagles don’t want to run the ball as much as they did last year. Just don’t tell their running backs.

PHILADELPHIA — There are certain questions that no one asks anymore. The topics have become passé, and the answers are taken for granted so quickly that they are hardly worth discussing or debating.

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Activists say people are abandoning their dogs in the woods

PHILADELPHIA — A small but growing number of dogs are being abandoned in and around a wooded section of the West Mount Airy area of Philadelphia — some of them found tied to trees or stakes.

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The brother of 2 1985 Philly bombing victims finally got their remains back from the medical examiner’s office

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia medical examiner released the remains of two victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing back to the victims’ brother on Wednesday, ending more than a year of unanswered questions and fighting to put the two to rest.

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Brother: Remains of 2 kids killed in 1985 bombing returned

The remains of two children killed in the 1985 bombing of a Philadelphia home used as the headquarters of a Black radical group have been returned to their brother

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Vin Scully’s storied broadcasting career began in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Vin Scully, the beloved voice of the Dodgers for 67 years, died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 94.

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Comcast lost internet customers for the first time. Executives call it a blip, but stock is down sharply

PHILADELPHIA — Brian Roberts at Comcast Corp. sealed a deal with Microsoft Corp. mogul Bill Gates in 1997 for $1 billion to modernize Comcast’s cable network for the internet, leading Comcast to sell high-speed broadband to tens of millions of homes, apartments and businesses over the next 25 years.

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