Orlando Cole, cellist and Curtis teacher, dies

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

He treated thousands of patients, including three generations of several families, and had offices in Philadelphia and South Jersey.

He shepherded movies like "Top Gun," "Ghost," and "Fatal Attraction."

James, who began his historic career with his hometown Cavaliers and won the 2016 NBA title in his return to the franchise, struggled in his first game back since joining the Sixers over the summer.

U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, next chair of key committees on foreign policy and defense, sees a path despite the president’s veto power.

Fire department officials say the additional funds will be used to hire a fourth full-time firefighter at each of Lower Merion’s six fire stations and bolster the department’s strained finances.

If the zoning board's ruling is final, the developer plans a version of the proposal with no parking at all.

Until last month, doctors had few ways to track the rise in medetomidine cases in their hospitals — because there were no International Classification of Disease codes associated with them.

Philly isn't the only place with a word that can mean almost anything. From Ireland to Hawaii, linguists explain the world's versions of jawn.