Xavier Johnson was 17 when police say he stabbed Renee Gilyard, 64, to death in her East Germantown home. Two weeks earlier, they say, he fatally stabbed 20-year-old Jimmy Mao.

“Our schools have collectively dealt with racism, inequity and biases when it comes to our schools’ oversight, expansion and renewal opportunities,” said Naomi Johnson Booker, a leader of the group.

The rain should stop in the afternoon, and with temperatures in the 60s, not bad for a pre-dinner walk.

Here’s what’s open and closed on Thursday across the Philadelphia region.

The indictment, unsealed Monday, said the group had been active since 2015, stretching their influence from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore.

Founded by Temple University students and neighborhood activists in 2010, Urban Creators is run in large part these days by young friends in their 20s who started doing odd jobs at the farm as teens.

By the end of June, the city estimates having just $22.9 million in leftover reserves — an amount could be spent in just a few days in an emergency such as a snowstorm or civil unrest.

“This week’s data, in terms of hospitalization increase, an increase in the use of ventilators, case increase and percent positivity are worrisome,” Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said Monday.

Lisa Clark, mother of Sadeek Clark-Harrison, says she has no idea who shot her son dead.

Gov. Wolf announced new requirements for hospitals, schools and bars, and stepped-up enforcement of pandemic orders. But he said he did not intend to return to the lockdown status of the spring.

Two other men were critically wounded in the shooting Sunday night on the 2500 block of South Alden Street.

The most recent scheduled hearing, Dec. 3, 2019, was canceled and never rescheduled. As many as 25 police shootings are awaiting review.

It is clear to many Philadelphians that the spring peaks of the pandemic may have been bad, but what lies ahead seems surely worse.