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Authorities look over the scene after two helicopters crashed in Hammonton, N.J., on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. (WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP)

She held a dying pilot’s hand while rescuers raced to the crash site of two helicopters in N.J.

December 31, 2025 at 12:00 p.m.

Dec. 30—Caitlyn Collins thought the grinding metal sounds and subsequent bang outside her Hammonton home Sunday were coming from her heater. It would take a moment to realize the loud...

People watch from the Gloucester City Marina as the SS United States passes under the Walt Whitman Bridge while being towed down the Delaware River on Feb. 19, 2025, in Philadelphia. (Elizabeth Robertson / The Philadelphia Inquirer)

SS United States set to sink in March, despite 11th-hour efforts to intervene

December 20, 2025 at 8:00 a.m.

Dec. 17—The 990-foot SS United States could be making waves as an artificial reef at the bottom of the Florida Panhandle coast as early as March, according to a tentative...

David Dominguez, left, a Democratic candidate for City Council, talks with voter Virgilio Tavarez in Hazleton. (Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

Latinos in Hazleton say they’re sticking by Trump

September 8, 2025 at 7:31 a.m.

Hazleton is the only one of Pennsylvania’s three largest majority-Latino cities to vote for Trump. The others, Reading and Allentown, supported him with about 35% of the vote.

This image provided by Commonwealth Media Services shows damage after a fire at the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion while Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family slept inside on Sunday, April 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pa. (Commonwealth Media Services via AP)

Arson suspect called Josh Shapiro a ‘monster’ and cited Pa. governor’s ‘plans’ for Palestinian people, warrant says

April 16, 2025 at 4:33 p.m.

After Balmer confessed to the acts and turned himself in, police executed search warrants on Balmer’s parents’ home where Balmer resided, his electronic devices, any notes referencing Shapiro or the...

The Pennsylvania State Senate on Thursday, July 11, 2024, approved a bill expanding the availability of canned cocktail drinks beyond the state-run Fine Wine & Good Spirits liquor stores. Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune

To-go, ready-to-drink cocktail permit applications are open for grocery stores and gas stations

August 27, 2024 at 3:58 p.m.

Starting Tuesday, retail liquor licensees and distributors, as well as importing distributors of malt and brews, can apply for ready-to-drink cocktail permits, which let consumers take canned booze to go.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks at a news conference in Berkeley, N.J. on April 26, 2024 in Berkeley, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

New Jersey eliminates $100 million in medical debt, helping 50,000 residents

August 21, 2024 at 12:36 p.m.

New Jersey is wiping out $100 million in medical debt for about 50,000 of its residents, using federal pandemic relief funds

Remo Saraceni, left, created the Big Piano in 1982. He claims FAO Schwarz's owners are selling a "confusingly similar imitation" of his toy. He is shown Dec. 7, 2023, with his assistant Benjamin Medaugh. (Charles Fox / The Philadelphia Inquirer / TNS)

Philly-area creator of iconic piano in movie ‘Big’ is in a legal battle with FAO Schwarz

December 27, 2023 at 4:07 p.m.

News dispatches of the time said Anne Spielberg, screenwriter for the movie "Big," saw the giant piano in the FAO Schwarz showroom and it inspired the iconic sequence of Tom...

This screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC shows fire and smoke near the collapsed section of I-95 in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 11, 2023. (WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP)

Truckers mourn the death of Nathan Moody after I-95 bridge fire

June 15, 2023 at 6:41 p.m.

In trucking Pennsylvania Facebook groups and Reddit, drivers and truck enthusiasts from the Philly region and beyond have been writing poignant tributes, wishing him an afterlife of “single pallet loads,...

A spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in Kutztown, Pa. The spotted lanternfly has emerged as a serious pest since the federal government confirmed its arrival in southeastern Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republicans and Democrats in Congress can agree on one thing: Battling the spotted lanternfly

June 8, 2023 at 3:49 p.m.

The spotted lanternfly, the bane of trees and a source of frustration for scientists and homeowners alike, is becoming something else: a political unifier.

An american alligator at the Philadelphia Zoo. (Courtesy of the Philadelphia Zoo)

Big Mack, the 8-foot alligator that was living in Philly basement, has a new home in Florida

April 24, 2023 at 3:40 p.m.

The 127-pound gator made headlines as images of his surrender spread last week. Video of animal control workers showed them carefully — and nervously — taping the behemoth of a...

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