Maggie Kent

1 week ago | 6abc.com | Maggie Kent

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (WPVI) -- It may not feel like it, but the height of the spring/summer 2025 shore season is just around the corner. Ocean City is gearing up with a variety of ways to keep visitors. "Take a look, the views are unmatched," says Glen Losch, general manager of Port-O-Call Hotel. Port-O-Call Hotel is offering month-long rentals -- a superior ocean-front room could run about $23,000 for 30 days. A deluxe bayside room will run just under $17,000 for a summer month.

1 week ago | 6abc.com | Maggie Kent

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Producers from the hit ABC show Shark Tank held an open casting call in Philadelphia on Friday, and we were invited into the room where it happens: the pitch room!It's where dreamers and investors are trying to reel in a "shark."Open casting at Rivers Casino in Fishtown brought out hundreds of inventors who are looking to get their shot. Shark Tank highlights the stories of rags to riches, from basement project to boardroom success story.

2 weeks ago | 6abc.com | Maggie Kent

With a flurry of economic updates leading the news cycle, we wanted to answer the very basic question: "What is a tariff?""A tariff essentially is very much like a tax on a particular good," says Professor Erasmus Kersting, chair of the Villanova University economics department. Kersting says these tariffs will lead to higher prices. "Since these tariffs are extremely universal, on almost anything from another trading partner, consumers will feel it in any purchase," he says.

3 weeks ago | 6abc.com | Maggie Kent

WASHINGTON (WPVI) -- Wednesday is the day that sweeping new tariffs are set to go into effect. President Trump calls it "Liberation Day."But many experts say the plan will result in higher prices on everything, from prescriptions to vehicles for American consumers. RELATED: 'We will respond': Canada vows retaliatory tariffs if Trump escalates trade warThe announcement has the power to completely change the way the U.S. does business.

3 weeks ago | 6abc.com | Maggie Kent

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Eagles organization is keeping "Fly, Eagles Fly," but after 28 seasons, it's parting ways with the pep band that made the anthem what it is today. The Eagles Pep Band has been with the team for nearly three decades at games and events around town, singing the Eagles fight song we all know and love. The band has mastered its own take on the Eagles song from the 1950s, making it what we sing today.