Beatrice Forman

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Robert Moran |Beatrice Forman

One girl has died and another was critically injured after an automobile struck the electric scooter they were riding over the weekend in Delaware County, police said. Officers from the Aston Police Department as well as firefighters and paramedics responded shortly before 2:20 p.m. Saturday to the area of Lehr Boulevard and Concord Road, a commercial intersection, where they found the girls with what police called life-threatening injuries.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Beatrice Forman

It was a graduation ceremony. It was also the first time since April that City Year Philadelphia Executive Director Darryl Bundrige could finally exhale. After navigating a $3.75 million federal funding cut and its ensuing uncertainty, City Year Philadelphia’s 77 AmeriCorps volunteers finished out their service year with a graduation ceremony inside the Academy of Natural Science’s auditorium Friday.

2 weeks ago | objectivejournalism.org | Beatrice Forman

Angelenos have been protesting downtown for a week straight after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agentsraided — and continue to patrol — southern California for undocumented immigrants. Many of the demonstrations were peaceful, with people primarily waving signs and flags as police officers plowed into them with horses and shot at them with rubber bullets as National Guard officers deployed by President Donald Trump patrolled federal property.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Beatrice Forman

A woman and two children have died after a house fire broke out in Strawberry Mansion on Friday morning, according to officials. The fire occurred just before 5 a.m. when five people were inside a home on the 2500 block of N. Corlies Street. First responders found a woman dead on the second floor. Two children — a four-year-old and and a five-year-old died after being taken a local hospital. The names of the victims have not been released.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Beatrice Forman

Philadelphia’s largest union of municipal workers is prepared to “shut this city down” if they are unable to negotiate a new contract with Mayor Cherelle L. Parker‘s administration by the end of June, AFSCME District Council 33 president Greg Boulware said Thursday. The news comes after what Boulware described as five months of stalled contract negotiations with the city, which he said failed to provide an initial financial plan until May.