Services for former fire commissioner Hairston will be Thursday

Flowers, a Black man whose six trials in the same Mississippi murder case became a national symbol of racial bias in jury selection, saw the Supreme Court reverse his capital conviction in 2019

The groundbreaking computer scientist started working in the field when software engineering was in its infancy.

He was an associate professor and director of community services for Temple University’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences from 2000 until his retirement in 2024.

He earned a degree in dental surgery at the Temple University School of Dentistry in 1968 and a medical degree from the old Medical College of Pennsylvania, now part of Drexel University, in 1972.

He was an expert on marriage, children, violence, anxiety, despair, stress, anger, sports psychology, and psychotherapy.

Termac, the dishwashing company Mr. O’Reilly cofounded in 1963, services thousands of restaurants and other commercial kitchens throughout the region.

He became the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House before falling from grace in a sex abuse scandal that came to light after he left government.

She arrived in Philadelphia in 1971 to work for Luster Products and became proficient at developing, testing, selling, and demonstrating personal care products at events around the world.

“He was the most feared reporter in my eight years in Harrisburg,” former Gov. Ed Rendell said. “He did his work. He did his digging. He really cared about the issues.”

She hosted "Frank Talk With Frank Rizzo" on WCAU radio in 1988 and ‘89, and told The Inquirer in 1989 that working with the onetime mayor was like flying a “careening aircraft for three hours.”

He turned his lifelong interest in sports, affable collegiality, and writing, reporting, and editing skills into an award-winning career as a TV and print journalist that spanned four decades.

She wrote two books on French poetry and earned a grant from the American Philosophical Society in 1981 to transcribe manuscripts at the National Library in Paris.

Once described as “Philadelphia’s resident combination of P.T. Barnum and Walt Disney,” Mr. Giles got creative trying to attract fans. The biggest draw was the mascot he green lit in 1978.

“I never refer to myself as wheelchair-bound — that sounds like I’m in chains," she said. "I’d rather describe myself as a dancer who sits down a lot.”

He worked as a young city-side reporter for the Bulletin from 1969 to 1974 and a veteran editor and reporter for The Inquirer from 2001 to 2008.

“We have a philosophy of work as rehabilitation,” he told the Daily News in 1988. “The goal is to show these people they can do a whale of a lot more than they think they can do.”

He had been open on social media and ion interviews about his struggles with addiction and mental health.

The introspective singer-songwriter whose alt-pop hit “Barely Breathing” became a Generation X touchstone also won two Tonys for composing the smash musical “Spring Awakening."

He hosted music shows at WMGK from 1977 through the early 2000s, at KISS 100 in the 1990s, and at WPEN and WHAT between 2000 and 2011.

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Activists' efforts to save a giant cottonwood tree in the path of President Donald Trump’s $46.5 billion border wall expansion ended Monday.

No Jaylen Brown, but the Sixers got an opportunity to empty the bench. They'll run it back on Friday, when the Sixers host the Celtics in their preseason finale at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

With the win, the Union extended their unbeaten streak to 13 games, improving on a franchise record set one game earlier.

Coming off a win over previously unbeaten South Florida, the Owls and head coach K.C. Keeler were unable to replicate.

Jeffries’ visit to Pennsylvania was a key stop on what he said will be a personal 15- to 20-state voter push, as Democrats aim to flip control of the House and make Jeffries the speaker.