Kerrin D. Wertz | Math teacher, 62

“He not only advocated for the gay community as a whole, he made individual people feel uplifted and welcome,” his husband said. “He inspired me and truly changed my life."

Formed in 1973, Television was a pioneering part of the punk rock insurrection that coalesced around CBGB, a club in the East Village of lower Manhattan.

Widely known as Jay, Mr. Rockefeller was the great-grandson of the business owner and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, who built an oil-based empire that made him the nation’s first billionaire.

After losing a leg in Vietnam, Chief Justice Castille became a lawyer, won the Philly district attorney's race as a Republican, and rose to the state's top judicial position.

Mr. Brodsky was described as “an extraordinary leader, a brilliant financial mind, and one of the architects of cable television” by Brian L. Roberts, Comcast's co-CEO and chairman.

The Nobel committee in 2018 cited his work in developing a method to balance climate change’s long-term damage with the costs required to contain it.

A lifelong naturalist, he learned scientific glassblowing technology at what is now Salem Community College, studied the structure of flowers, and made these flowers the centerpiece of his art.

Although his presidential campaigns were unsuccessful, he was an enduring influence on Mexican politics.

She was known for her roles in 1960s Hollywood comedies and espionage films.

Mr. Stewart died Wednesday in Los Angeles, following “a brief and poignant journey” with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy Body Dementia, spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak said.

She spent 20 hours secretly reporting from a nearby house during the two-day confrontation between Philadelphia police and members of the MOVE group in May 1985.

She was nominated for an Emmy Award as best female singer on TV in 1955 and named best new singer in 1956 by DownBeat and Billboard magazines.

Koenig a mainstay of the “Star Trek” franchise as Pavel Chekov, the Russian navigator aboard the USS Enterprise.

A longtime Washington Post reporter and correspondent, Ms. Murphy was one of the only Western journalists to stay in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion in 1990.

“A writer once described me as a character actor locked in a leading man’s body, and I’ve always loved that," he said in an interview in 1997.

He joined the Haverford School in 1998 as its eighth headmaster and, until he retired in 2013, championed servant leadership, compassion, and enhanced student engagement.

“It was a little bit spectacular to see this huge horse flying through the air,” she told the Courier-Post in 1998. “The motion was beautiful. A young girl brave enough to ride the horse added to it.”

She brought a casual, if knowledgeable, approach to her reviews, writing more from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer than from the lofty perch of a scholar of cinema.

She earned a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a doctorate in architecture and art history, and joined the growing art history department at Swarthmore in 1966

“A large cargo ship has struck the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge today,” said Pa. State Rep. Ed Neilson.

Concerns about overdiagnosis and overtreatment had driven a shift away from routine screening. But advances in clinical trials and diagnostic tools have prompted a reassessment in its favor.

The new law would effectively end the market in Philadelphia entirely. A kratom seller and industry group have challenged the ordinance in court.

November thunderstorms are unusual, occurring about once every two years in Philly.

Campaign leaders say what's started as public awareness could escalate into financial pressure on companies that do business at the airport

Spain’s interim lower house of parliament has ratified housing measures designed to limit evictions and real estate speculation