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The family of Walter Wallace Jr. — the West Philadelphia man who was fatally shot by Philadelphia police in October, setting off days of protests — filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Thursday against two officers.

The demolition of a 100-year-old hosiery mill in Kensington was stopped Thursday after neighbors posted videos online of falling debris. The videos led the city’s Licenses & Inspections agency to investigate, which found the contractor was working with expired demolition permits. The stop-work order comes about a week after neighbors gathered to protest the seven-story, 150-unit apartment complex that embattled developer Gagandeep Lakhmna aims to build at the site he bought in September 2020.

The poorest Pennsylvanians will receive around $712 million in retroactive food stamp benefits — $188 million for Philadelphia residents alone ― now that a July lawsuit initially filed against the Trump administration by a local law firm has been settled.

SEPTA will reopen its troubled Somerset Station in Kensington on Monday.

Christopher Miyares, who was confronted in 2013 by a shotgun-wielding John Fetterman — then mayor of tiny Braddock, now lieutenant governor and running for the U.S. Senate — claims Fetterman has “lied about everything” that happened that day. But Miyares, currently an inmate at a state prison in Somerset County, said that incident should not stop Fetterman from becoming a senator. Meanwhile, Fetterman’s successor in Braddock endorsed race rival State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, and Fetterman has raised $3.9 million in the first three months of his campaign.

A Philadelphia police inspector was arrested Thursday for assaulting a man in his Northeast neighborhood, and he will be fired as a result of the arrest, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.

The National Cancer Institute says it’s not funding a study that asked West Philadelphia residents for fecal samples for research into links between gentrification and colorectal cancer.

🥘 The Locust Street luncheonette Middle Child is bringing an even larger location to Fishtown.

🏀 Now that Villanova is no longer competing for a national championship, sports columnist Mike Jensen looks at the future of City 6 men’s basketball, and identifies newer facilities as a bottom-line need.

Columnist Will Bunch writes that America’s military-industrial complex squandered $1.7 trillion on a lame fighter jet while the president is begging for infrastructure cash. And he asks: Isn’t there a better way?

Vladimir Putin, like China’s Xi Jinping, thinks Western democracy is on the ropes and he can crush democratic opposition in Russia with impunity, writes columnist Trudy Rubin. She argues that “Killer” Putin must be prevented from murdering opposition leader Alexei Navalny in prison.

Philly Mag has a list of seven classic candies that got started in Philadelphia, just in time for a sugary weekend.

The New York Times looks at the crisis in child care, and specifically at the child-care centers that improvised during the pandemic and are scrambling to stay open with razor-thin budgets and little government guidance. And asks: “How long will the short-term solutions last?”

Our own writer-at-large David Gambacorta wrote a piece for Longreads about Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s lost album, Human Highway, and details how the group once-thought to be “the super group to end all super groups” fumbled a chance to record their best album.