The Philadelphia Inquirer (South Jersey edition)
Schools vulnerable to measles outbreak
Days into the new year, a traveler with measles landed at Philadelphia International Airport, passed through bustling 30th Street Station, and boarded an Amtrak train to Baltimore. Thousands of passersby may have encountered a virus so contagious, it...
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Spring’s bizarre weather cost farmers up to $200M in lost crops
The peach, apple, and other pickings may be slimmer this summer — and the prices heftier — as the result of what by any measure was a heat-freeze ambush of rare intensity in April that likely has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in crop...
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Dancing Philly sheriff ad was part of $8M in new ‘slush fund’ spending
College football fans probably weren’t expecting to see Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal on TV in November when they sat down to watch the Penn State Nittany Lions take on the Michigan State Spartans. But there she was, with sheriff’s-office...
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After 44 years as a Temple employee, 75-year-old is now a graduate
At age 75, Peggy E. Moore officially became “Temple Made” on Wednesday. That’s what the university calls its graduates, and Moore collected her bachelor’s degree in general studies during this week’s commencement. But Moore’s history with the North...
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Smiles among the statesmen
Pennsylvania Senate president pro tempore Kim Ward photographs colleagues as they walk among statues of the nations’s founders in Signers’ Hall at the National Constitution Center after the legislative body hosted a ceremonial meeting there Tuesday in...
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UAE says Iran has resumed attacks as the U.S. moves to reopen strait
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said it fired on Iranian forces and sank six small boats targeting civilian ships as it moved to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. The United Arab Emirates, a key American ally, said it had come...
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‘The perfect morning for a run’
As 40,000 runners made their way down Broad Street for the 47th edition of the Independence Blue Cross Broad Street Run on Sunday, Josh Izewski led the pack for the second year in a row. Izewski was the top overall finisher in the nation’s largest...
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Where others have doubts, this Philly developer sees dollar signs
Longtime real estate investor Dean Adler sees unparalleled opportunity in the uncertainty of 2026. Post-2022, the real estate industry has been scarred by vacant offices, canceled projects, rising debt, and heightened interest rates and construction...
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From $2 entry fee to 40,000 runners
Chris Tatreau stood at the starting line, ready to fire the gun to begin the inaugural Broad Street Run in June 1980 when he saw a few runners puffing cigarettes. The race — which has since grown to become the nation’s largest 10-miler — was thrown...
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Board backs $3B plan that closes 17 city schools
The Philadelphia school board Thursday night adopted a sweeping $3 billion facilities plan that would close 17 schools and renovate 169 over the next decade, reshaping the system for years to come. The vote came amid intense opposition and over the...
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Court limits race in voting maps
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sharply weakened a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, a ruling that limits the consideration of race in drawing voting maps and could usher in Republican gains in the House. The decision is...
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Phils boss on firing Rob Thomson: ‘I think we needed a different voice’
Rob Thomson spent much of Monday, a day off for the Phillies, going over scouting reports and preparing for this week’s threegame series against the Giants. It was business as usual. But the Phillies also were tied for the worst record in the majors...
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Tea with the royals
King Charles III and Queen Camilla join U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump for tea at the White House on Monday, the first day of the royal couple’s state visit to the U.S. Today, Charles will address a joint session of Congress.
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Writings, posts suggest attack fueled by anti-Trump stance
WASHINGTON — The man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner railed against Trump administration policies and referred to himself as a “Friendly Federal Assassin” in writings sent to family members minutes before...
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A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME
SCRANTON — On March 8, Nails found God. Barefoot, dressed in a Baltimore Ravens shortsleeved T-shirt and black sweatpants, former Phillies center fielder and 1993 World Series spark plug Lenny Dykstra — nicknamed “Nails” during his playing days for his...
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Well received
Southern Cal wide receiver Makai Lemon celebrates with fans after being chosen by the Eagles with the 20th overall pick during the first round of the NFL draft Thursday in Pittsburgh. Draft coverage in Sports, Section B.
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Off and running
High school girls compete in a 4x800 heat at Franklin Field on Thursday, the opening day of the Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania. The annual track and field competition continues through Saturday. Coverage in Sports.
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‘Is it dark in here?’ Why so many restaurants are dimming the lights
As night falls over South Street, the modern American bistro Banshee glows through its fling-out windows, the restaurant’s earthtoned dining room lit like a lantern. Warm light catches the tambour wood ceiling, candles pool softly on the tables, and...
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Keeping an eye on the playoffs
Gritty, the Flyers mascot, interacts with fans during a joint Flyers-Sixers rally Tuesday at the Comcast Center plaza in Center City. Both the Flyers and the Sixers are in the postseason this spring. Full coverage in Sports and on Inquirer.com.
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Opening Day
Former Eagles center Jason Kelce (right) and PGA Tour member Chris Gotterup on the driving range help inaugurate the Lincoln Financial Center at Cobbs Creek Golf Course on Monday. The 42,000-square-foot, three-story complex includes a two-story driving...
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Pope prays at shrine in Angola that was a center of slave trade
MUXIMA, Angola — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an important hub of the African slave trade during Portugal’s...
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Forged in Philly, she took down Epstein
The sordid Jeffrey Epstein saga is a Florida story, first and foremost. That’s where Julie K. Brown, a longtime investigative reporter at the Miami Herald, did most of the reporting that led to the Palm Beach billionaire’s arrest in 2019. She has a...
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Old stone, new tricks
Kevin Shealy of Los Angeles skates Friday at the newly renovated skate plaza at the Municipal Services Building. The $18 million plaza’s skating section consists of a giant domino made of granite from LOVE Park, among other repurposed pieces. See...
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Breaking ground
On the 79th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier, University of Delaware sports history professor Ronald F. Whittington, above, dresses up as Robinson alongside the Phillie Phanatic at a mural design unveiling...
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Pretty in (hot) pink
These cherry blossoms on Kelly Drive are saying spring, but the thermometer is saying July. Temperatures on Tuesday shot well into the 80s — more than 20 degrees above normal for an April 14 — and chances are excellent that they will shatter an...
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Bodies of two workers retrieved from site of CHOP garage collapse
The bodies of two ironworkers who were trapped under the debris of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia garage that collapsed last week were recovered early Monday morning, ending a careful, days-long operation to retrieve the men from an unstable...
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RESIDENCE RESTORED
HARRISBURG — At first glance, the reception room in the governor’s mansion looked pretty much the same as last year’s Passover Seder: Pennsylvania-themed place settings for 100 guests, copies of the Haggadah at every seat, excited children interrupting...
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Union identifies worker killed and 2 others feared dead in collapse
Crews continued their search Saturday for two missing ironworkers trapped in the rubble of a Grays Ferry parking garage that collapsed earlier this week. Philadelphia’s Ironworkers Union Local 401 identified the men as Matthew Kane and Mark Scott Jr....
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Dangerously unstable structure slows search at Grays Ferry site
At the site where part of a garage under construction in Grays Ferry collapsed Wednesday, sending concrete and debris crashing to the ground and killing one man, the work of rescuing two people believed to be trapped in the pile unfolded Thursday at a...
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Partial collapse leaves man dead at construction site in Grays Ferry
Part of a seven-level parking garage under construction in Grays Ferry for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia collapsed Wednesday afternoon, leaving one man dead and rescuers keeping their distance into the evening as the structure remained...
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Trump pulls back on threats as U.S., Iran agree to two-week ceasefire
TEHRAN, Iran — U.S. President Donald Trump said late Tuesday he’s pulling back on his threats to attack Iranian bridges, power plants, and other civilian targets, subject to Iran agreeing to a two-week ceasefire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz....
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Dark side of the moon in a new light
In this photo provided by NASA and taken by the Artemis II crew Monday, the moon is visible through a window of the Orion spacecraft at the end of Day 5 of its journey. The crew also set a new record for farthest human travel from the Earth, surpassing...
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‘Choose peace!’
Pope Leo XIV addresses the faithful after delivering the Urbi et Orbi blessing — Latin for “to the city of Rome and to the world” — from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on Easter Sunday. Story, A3.
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Power Play
MELCROFT, Pa. — Company towns used to dot the landscape in the rolling hills of southwestern Pennsylvania, where coal mining drove commerce in the early 20th century — and left a legacy of environmental contamination that remains today. This town was...
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Good Friday procession
Pope Leo XIV carries a wooden cross for all of the 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome on his first Good Friday as pontiff. The procession marks the final hours of Jesus’ life, from his death sentence to taking up the cross to...
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Foreclosures on suspicious sales near Temple are affecting residents
A potential wave of foreclosures has begun near Temple University after some buyers who paid tens of millions of dollars in inflated real estate deals — at least on paper — stopped making mortgage payments. Students and other renters in those...
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Court hears arguments on birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday on one of the most important cases of the age, one that’s expected to define who gets to be a citizen of the United States. Arguments in Trump vs. Barbara started at about 10 a.m. in Washington and...
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NASA readies Artemis II for lunar orbital mission
Humanity could soon return to the moon’s environs for the first time in half a century. Under a mission scheduled to launch Wednesday evening, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen are set to trace a figure-eight...
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Big wheel in Phoenixville
The Phoenix Wheel, once a fixture at the Jersey Shore, is being reconstructed in Phoenxville. The Phoenix Wheel predates the patent for the Ferris wheel, drawing its lineage back to 1893. Story, B1.
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Pa. Democrats use affordability to hammer Trump on Iran war
One month into the war in Iran, Democrats pushing back against President Donald Trump’s decision to attack have coalesced around a familiar messaging strategy: affordability. The buzzword critics used for months to hammer Trump and Republicans over...
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No Kings rallies spread message far and wide
In step with demonstrators nationwide Saturday, thousands took to streets across the Philadelphia region — from Center City, to Ardmore, to Camden — denouncing President Donald Trump, his policies, and his administration. It was the third No Kings...
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TSA officers at PHL wonder why Trump waited so long to pay them
Transportation Security Administration employees at Philadelphia International Airport have gone weeks without a paycheck, struggling to afford their homes, childcare, or transportation to work. But more than 40 days into a pandemonium-filled...
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Boys of Summer are back
Fans welcome the Phillies into Citizens Bank Park on opening day. Despite allowing three runs in the ninth, the Phillies picked up a 5-3 win over the Texas Rangers on Thursday. More coverage in Sports, Section C.
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Meta, YouTube found liable in landmark trial
A Los Angeles jury delivered a rare verdict against Silicon Valley giants Wednesday — the second such finding in two days — boosting safety advocates’ hopes that courts will deliver a long-sought reckoning over social media’s harms to children. The...
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ICE deployed to Philly airport
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrived at Philadelphia International Airport, one day after they were deployed at other airports across the country. At the Terminal D security checkpoint Tuesday morning, at least a dozen ICE agents...
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Deadly LaGuardia collision
Officials investigate the site Monday where an Air Canada jet came to rest after colliding with a Port Authority firetruck at LaGuardia Airport in New York. The pilot and copilot were killed in the collision, which occurred shortly after landing Sunday...
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Faculty, staff rebuilding after UArts’ closure
Diane Pepe taught at the University of the Arts for 35 years, right up until the day it abruptly closed in June 2024. Her life felt upended, as did the lives of many faculty, staff, and students at the Center City Philadelphia arts school. “I loved...
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For Philly-area immigrants, an ICE arrest is just the start of the journey
At the time, Francisco thought the worst had happened on that day in August, when he was stopped and arrested by ICE on his way to work in South Jersey. But he never imagined the odyssey that would follow — a series of transfers among detention centers...
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‘Seeing my dad cry’: Inside a Jefferson student’s Match Day
All eyes were on the envelope in Kevin Carolina’s hands, as he huddled with his parents, girlfriend, and physician mentors. The 26-year-old from Piscataway, N.J., had dreamed about this moment since high school, when he learned there were fewer Black...
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As Iran hits more oil sites, Israel says it will stop attacking gas field
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran intensified its attacks on oil and natural gas facilities around the Persian Gulf on Thursday, raising the stakes in a war that is sending shock waves through energy markets and the global economy. The strikes, in...
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Widow to troopers: Continue your efforts of ‘protection with integrity’
Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across Pennsylvania and beyond filled a Chester County church on Wednesday to honor State Police Cpl. Timothy O’Connor, gathering in a solemn show of tribute to a fallen trooper remembered for his steadiness,...
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Top Iranian officials ‘eliminated’ in overnight airstrikes by Israel
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel said Tuesday it killed two senior Iranian security officials in overnight strikes in a major blow to the country’s leadership. Iran, which so far confirmed one killing, fired salvos of missiles and drones at its...
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European leaders seek clarity about Trump’s plans for ending Iran war
BRUSSELS — European countries on Monday sought more details about U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for the war on Iran and warned that NATO must not become involved in it, as they weighed whether to agree to his call to send warships to help shore...
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Dancing
Penn men’s basketball team celebrates clinching the school’s first NCAA tournament bid since 2018, after upsetting Yale in the Ivy League tournament championship on Sunday. The Quakers will open tournament play against Illinois on Thursday. Fellow Big...
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Shapiro’s focus on faith
With a large illustration of a menorah towering behind him, Gov. Josh Shapiro spoke in a thundering voice as he urged a crowd of thousands of Jewish teens from around the world to speak out, seek change, and be proud of their faith. “Hear me on this:...
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Parker touts her $7B budget plan as catalyst for ‘economic mobility’
Since taking office, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker has treated her 2023 campaign slogan — to make Philadelphia the “safest, cleanest, and greenest big city in the nation with access the economic opportunity for all” — as a to-do list for her...
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Iran’s attacks on ships, oil facilities heighten global energy concerns
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran fired upon commercial ships on Wednesday and targeted Dubai International Airport, escalating a campaign of bottling up the oilrich Persian Gulf as global energy concerns mounted and American and Israeli airstrikes...
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U.S. and Iran escalate threats as war rages with no end in sight
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s attacks on oil infrastructure and pledges to choke off a vital waterway left markets on edge Tuesday as the United States promised blistering new strikes. The war entered its 11th day with no end in sight as its...
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Bucks pair say ISIS inspired N.Y. bomb threat
Two Bucks County men arrested for attempting to detonate homemade bombs at a protest outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan over the weekend said they were inspired by ISIS, court documents show. Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were charged with...
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A new leader for Iran, new targets for attacks
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor, Iranian state TV announced Sunday, as the nineday war that began with his father’s killing took a dramatic turn. The younger Khamenei had...
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Trump says he blames school strike on Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Iran war exploded further late Saturday as pillars of flame rose above an oil storage facility in Tehran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the next phase of the week-old...
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Former Democratic presidents pay tribute to Jesse Jackson
CHICAGO — From former presidents to an NBA Hall of Famer to prominent church pastors, stories of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s influence on politics, corporate boardrooms, and picket lines loomed large Friday at a celebration honoring the late civil...
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Trump wants a say on Iran’s next leader
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day. Iran kept up retaliatory attacks on Israel, American bases, and...
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship
duBaI, united arab Emirates — a u.s. submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, as Washington and Israel intensified their bombardment Wednesday of Iran’s security forces and other symbols of power. Iran launched more missiles and drones...
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White House offers shifting rationales for attack
As an expanding Middle East war entered its fourth day, the Trump administration gave shifting rationales for its decision to attack Iran, even as U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports said they saw no sign the country had posed an...
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War’s scope, timeline expand as death toll, destruction grow
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke Monday to widening concerns that the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring: “This is not Iraq. This is not endless,” even as he warned that more...
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Iran vows revenge as the war widens
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. and Israel pounded targets across Iran on Sunday, dropping massive bombs on the country’s ballistic missile sites and wiping out warships as part of an intensifying military campaign following the killing of...
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U.S. AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, President Donald Trump said Saturday on social media. Trump said his death is “the single...
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New plans for Philly’s largest office complex
When it opened in 1974, the connected concrete towers of Centre Square boasted the most office space in Philadelphia, at over 1.7 million square feet. Over 51 years later, the Brutalist behemoth still holds that title. But probably not for much...
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After outcry, two Philly schools would stay open under revised plan
Two of the 20 Philadelphia schools originally targeted for closure under Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr.’s facilities plan have been spared and will remain open. Conwell Middle School in Kensington and Motivation High in Southwest Philadelphia...
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Point of Pride
Gov. Josh Shapiro — with (from left) Mark Segal, Philadelphia Gay News founder; City Councilmembers Rue Landau and Mark Squilla; and Anne Ryan, Pennsylvania deputy secretary of tourism — celebrates the opening of the Philadelphia Pride Visitor Center,...
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Getting ready to bloom
At the Convention Center, James Walker with Valley Forge Flowers places baby’s breath on a large overhead sweeping and twisting root structure in preparation for the Philadelphia Flower Show, which opens this week. Story, B1
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Heavy snow won’t stick around
If it wasn’t an actual blizzard, Philly’s biggest snowfall in a decade sure acted like one, and the weather the rest of this week isn’t expected to be particularly pleasant. But in terms of disruption — not to mention esthetics — this was in a wholly...
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Gaudreau legacy lives on
Bob Nark made certain to go to Mass on Saturday night. That way, he would be free Sunday morning to turn on his television to NBC, to United States vs. Canada in Milan, to an unforgettable hockey game with an unforgettable finish, to a celebration that...
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Jesse and Matt Ito’s big Japan adventure
TOKYO — You have to wake up early in the morning to catch the world’s largest fish market at its peak. You also need to keep your head on a swivel. “Careful here! These drivers can be crazy!” said our market escort, yanking me back from a warehouse...
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Trump slams Supreme Court after stinging defeat on tariffs
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a stinging loss that sparked a furious attack on the court he helped shape. Trump said he was “absolutely ashamed” of some justices...
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