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3 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Nate File

Officials have identified the man whose body was recovered from the Schuylkill River in Pottstown earlier this week. The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office confirmed that the individual was Sean Hagerty, 26. The Coroner has determined the cause of his death to be drowning, and classified it as an accident. Hagerty was reported missing on the night of Sunday, June 1. His body was recovered from the river the next day around 12:15 pm, near the Keim Street bridge.

3 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Nate File

As people age, basketball is usually one of the first things that leaves them. Knees grind and ache, while the specter of a blown Achilles haunts every explosive movement. But after he turned 50, Greg Anderson kept playing, even while it required an elaborate stretching and foam rolling routine that grew nearly as long as the time he would spend on the court.

4 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Nate File

There will soon be a new addition to the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Center City. A new permanent booth at the plaza will be staffed seven days a week by a park manager, someone who will greet visitors and teach them about the memorial, while also serving as a deterrent for antisemitic vandalism. It is meant to “create a more welcoming and safer and cleaner environment,” at the site, said Eszter Kutas, executive director of the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation.

1 month ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Nate File

New Jersey is not usually thought of as a place that prioritizes absolute deregulation and individual freedom. But when it comes to homeschooling, the state may be even more lax than Texas. It means kids are under the complete control of their parents, and abuse can be completely obscured. A Gloucester Township couple is due for their first court date Thursday morning, after being charged with abusing, assaulting and neglecting the woman's teenage daughter.

1 month ago | inquirer.com | Nate File

The Gloucester Township couple charged with confining and abusing the woman’s teenage daughter inside their home for years appeared in court for the first time on Thursday morning, where prosecutors made new accusations of mistreatment. Brenda Spencer, 38, and Branndon Mosley, 41, were both ordered held in detention until trial by Judge Gwendolyn Blue, who said that if the allegations brought by the prosecution were true, it indicated a pattern of “barbaric ...