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PHILADELPHIA — In the opening scene of Peacock's "Bel-Air," Will (Jabari Banks) blasts Freeway's hit song "What We Do" from an app on his smartphone.

PHILADELPHIA — Laura Rago wasn’t smiling behind her mask as she pulled down the arm of her sweater and got her first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine on a rainy Wednesday afternoon in an otherwise-empty Keystone First Wellness Center. The Ridley woman said she had long been resisting the shot.

PHILADELPHIA — The orchid cactus was always there. Its leaves, to me, appear almost like dog ears from a distance, but a closer look shows curved edges and teensy spines.

PHILADELPHIA -- Laura Rago wasn’t smiling behind her mask as she pulled down the arm of her sweater and got her first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine on a rainy Wednesday afternoon in an otherwise-empty Keystone First Wellness Center. The Ridley woman said she had long been resisting the shot.

A new exhibition highlights a shameful history of racism in pools but also a recognition of Black swimming heroes

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania State Troopers on Tuesday announced the arrest of the 21-year-old driver who authorities say fatally struck and killed two state troopers and a civilian on I-95 early Monday.

PHILADELPHIA — Republican candidates for Pennsylvania governor say they’re eager to make their case to voters in televised debates. But first they have a few conditions.

PHILADELPHIA — Who is MacKenzie Scott? She married Jeff Bezos in 1993, and together they co-founded Amazon in 1994 after leaving the investment firm D.E. Shaw. She divorced Bezos in 2019, and had previously given at least $49 million to Philly-area non-profit organizations.

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania State Troopers on Tuesday announced the arrest of the 21-year-old driver who authorities say fatally struck and killed two state troopers and a civilian on I-95 early Monday.

PHILADELPHIA — Benefits Data Trust, a Philadelphia nonprofit that helps people overcome barriers to government benefits for food, housing and health care, received a $20 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the organization announced Tuesday.

PHILADELPHIA -- David Wilson didn’t want to say where he hoped to be working as a doctor, but the Thomas Jefferson University medical school student was willing to say this about his No. 1 choice: “It’s whatever is in the envelope.”