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Barbara Friedes’ life and career were always driven by altruism, those who knew her said. From the moment her husband-to-be, Cole, sat behind her in organic chemistry class at Florida State University, he said, he knew she was special. She was magnetic, he said,...

Barbara Ann Friedes, 30, was struck from behind by a 2018 Volkswagen on the 1800 block of Spruce Street around 7 p.m., Philadelphia police wrote in a release. The Volkswagen then hit three parked cars before coming to a rest, police continued. Friedes was taken to...

A group of workers at Thomas Jefferson University who are paid to simulate patients for medical students celebrated a victory earlier this year when they won a union election. But six months later, they say they're struggling to be taken seriously in bargaining...

When the British Consul General arrived at 3rd and Walnut streets on a drizzly Friday morning for a ribbon cutting of the newly imagined Benjamin Rush Garden, she felt right at home. Not only is the garden dominated by a bell donated in 1976 by Queen Elizabeth II, but...

“Who sits there and thinks, with all the needs we have in America, of criminalizing the homeless?” wonders Pastor Robert Brown of Bristol’s Bible Evangelical Methodist Church after learning that the United States Supreme Court approved punishing those experiencing...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Democratic senators in Pennsylvania are drafting a bill to prevent the criminalization of homelessness in the state after the Supreme Court recently ruled that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places.

HARRISBURG, PA — In response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, several Pennsylvania state senators announced plans to introduce legislation aimed at preventing the criminalization of homelessness. The proposed law would counteract the Supreme Court’s decision in...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson that cities can punish people for sleeping in public has some Democrats in Pennsylvania seething. The high court said laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment,”...

Dear Democratic Senate Leaders, As the 2024 budget season kicks into high gear, we are writing to ask that you work to ensure that renewable energy legislation and climate solution policies currently pending in the legislature are included in any final budget...

Preservationists and developers are keeping their fingers crossed for new state funding to revitalize historic buildings. Two bills introduced this month would significantly raise the annual cap for the state’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit program, a public...

HARRISBURG — State Senators approved a bill protecting Pennsylvania’s investments in Israel and related companies, one that would allow lawmakers to withhold potentially millions in funds from any university that would choose to divest in protest of the Israel-Hamas...

Student protests on college campuses called on universities to pull their investments from Israel over the war in Gaza. While some schools agreed to at least discuss divestment, Pennsylvania higher education institutions will not have the choice if a bill continues...