ORLANDO, Fla. — America is aging.
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MANASSAS, Va. — George Mason University is naming a science and technology building in honor of the one of the NASA mathematicians whose story was told in the motion picture "Hidden Figures."
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Authorities say a street shooting in eastern Pennsylvania has left 10 people wounded.
A measure moving through Pennsylvania’s General Assembly is garnering pushback from immigrant advocacy groups.
The February 2017 prison uprising in Delaware that ended with correctional Sgt. Steven Floyd stabbed and beaten to death led prosecutors to charge 18 prisoners.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mayor Pete Buttigieg stood before newly sworn police officers to welcome them to the city's ranks, just as he has more than a dozen times since taking office. But this time he was a Democratic candidate for president, speaking just days after a white officer fatally shot a…
Sports
TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors were still partying it up in Las Vegas, part of an extended celebration following their first championship, when the NBA starting reshaping itself for a new season with the blockbuster trade agreement Saturday that will send Anthony Davis to the Lakers.
TORONTO — Two people were shot and wounded at a rally Monday for the NBA champion Toronto Raptors that turned into a stampede. Police said there were two arrests.
NEW ORLEANS — Now that six-time All-Star Anthony Davis’ trade request has been honored, it’s time for the New Orleans Pelicans to start a new era by drafting the next face of the franchise.
The Philadelphia 76ers will head into a very busy part of the summer beginning Thursday, June 20 when the 2019 NBA Draft is held at the Barclays Center in New York, New York. The draft will begin at 7 p.m. on ESPN.
TORONTO — Jubilant Raptors fans decked out in team gear are jamming downtown Toronto for a parade for the NBA champions.
NEW ORLEANS — Anthony Davis will wind up with LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers after all.
Lifestyles
BOSTON — A Boston-based genealogical organization and a Georgetown University graduate who launched a project to trace the family histories of hundreds of Black slaves sold by the Jesuits who ran the college in 1838 have teamed up to digitize the information and make it available to people r…
Three years ago, Megan Mottley was on a mission to raise money for her teenage daughter to attend a mission trip to Japan. Her made-from-scratch cookies quickly went viral on social media and shortly after the success of three fundraisers, Goodness Gracious Luxe Cookies, was created.
Nine-year-old Brandon’s dream day would be going to an Eagles football game and meeting the players. Football — playing it and watching it — is his favorite sport, but he also enjoyed the only Phillies game he saw. He remembers it whenever he wears his Phillies’ shirt.
Shrouded in thick rainforest and centuries of mystery, the ancient Mayan city of Tikal is one of the greatest overlooked sites of antiquity in the West.
Many travelers who squirrel away travel rewards are saving for an oceanfront vacation, paid for with points instead of cash. To make the most of your rewards, start by looking for the highest-value hotel redemptions, then check award flights.
We have all heard the news about travelers dying on vacation. Things do happen on vacations. But should a vacation cost you your life? There are tips that can help insure you have a stress free time on vacation.
Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Tiffany Haddish says she chose to join a boycott of Georgia after she read the state's new anti-abortion legislation.
The burden on your shoulders is heavy.
In the world of Jimmie Fails, an untrained actor who stars in “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” co-written with his longtime friend, Joe Talbot, the truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction. Interestingly, this unflinching saga of the beauty, crime, frustration and gentrification of…
NEW YORK — Jennifer Pinckney was hiding under a desk holding the mouth of her then-6-year-old daughter when Dylann Roof fired more than 70 shots in Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine Black worshippers.
LOS ANGELES — Brand familiarity isn’t everything when it comes to attracting audiences to the multiplex, and Hollywood is learning that lesson the hard way this summer with a slew of underperforming sequels and reboots. That so-called franchise fatigue came to a head this weekend with the re…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J. Simpson launched a Twitter account with a video post in which the former football star said he's got a "little gettin' even to do."
Religion
NEW ORLEANS — The son of a Louisiana sheriff’s deputy is facing federal hate crime charges in connection with three fires that destroyed African American churches earlier this year.
The Vine Memorial Baptist Church hosted its annual missionary ceremony and luncheon on Saturday afternoon, celebrating its work and recognizing four members for their services.
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican formally opened debate Monday on letting married men be ordained as priests in remote parts of the Amazon where priests are so few that Catholics can go weeks or months without attending a Mass.
Darrell Lamont Tiller has been ordained to the Transitional Diaconate in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.
This week, allow me to talk about freedom. The freedom I’m talking about is the freedom afforded you when you come to Christ.
Obituaries
Herbert Bickford, a U.S. Navy veteran and former community activist, died on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. He was 94.
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Carl J. Tavares, a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Korean War, died on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, at the Atlanticare Medical Center, Mainland in Galloway, New Jersey. He was 89.
Lew Klein, a broadcast pioneer who helped create “American Bandstand” and launched the careers of Dick Clark and Bob Saget, has died at 91.
Professor Niara Sudarkasa, the first female president of Lincoln University, died on Friday, May 31, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She was 80.
James G. Slaughter, a former educator and principal of Bartram Human Services High School, died on Sunday, June 9, 2019. He was 70.
Metros
When Lynne Carter set out to become a boxing judge, all she wanted to do was make it to Atlantic City.
Gov. Tom Wolf signed a law on Wednesday designating June 19 as “Juneteenth National Freedom Day” in Pennsylvania.
Martin Luther King High School appointed Malik Jones as its new head football coach last month, bringing in a spirit of leadership described as being creative as much as it is athletic.
Philadelphia’s District Attorney says he’s not to blame for a rise in shooting deaths.
It gets bigger every year.
Nearly two-dozen shootings left a trail of deaths and injuries during a bloody Father’s Day weekend as homicides were on track to surpass last year’s decade-high rate.
ORLANDO, Fla. — America is aging.
We have all heard the news about travelers dying on vacation. Things do happen on vacations. But should a vacation cost you your life? There are tips that can help insure you have a stress free time on vacation.
Brian Jetter was on life support, a healthy 40-year-old suddenly battling pneumonia and sepsis, and a slew of tests had failed to find the cause.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — As the federal government prepares to launch an ambitious initiative to end the HIV epidemic, the director of the Centers for Disease Control on Friday applauded an Alabama HIV clinic’s commitment to providing health services to rural communities.
Regardless of where you live in the United States, this time of year brings something (other than hot weather) that affects everyone: mosquitos. No bite is more common than the bite of a mosquito.
NEW YORK — Chips, soda and frozen pizzas tend to be full of salt, sugar and fat, but now scientists are trying to understand if there's something else about such processed foods that might be bad for us.
Philly Connection
Pa. State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta held a senior health and wellness breakfast, Thursday at the R.W. Brown Community Center.
UNCF hosted the seventh annual Philadelphia UNCF Mayor’s Masked Ball. It is a signature fundraising event providing support to numerous students attending UNCF-member colleges and universities and nearly 1,100 other colleges across America.
On March 9th, 2019, more than 1,000 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. members ascended on the nation’s capital in Washington DC for the 30th Annual Delta Days at the Nation’s Capital.
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