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A Pennsylvania college basketball game was postponed after a pre-game protest on the court by students objecting to Halloween costumes allegedly worn by several school athletes.

Such a quintessentially American role, some said, should have gone to an African American actress. Erivo, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants to England, was born in London and currently lives in New York.

British actress Cynthia Erivo is relatively small in stature. In person, she is earnest and genial. In performance, the 32-year-old can appear achingly vulnerable. And if you’re not paying attention, she will bowl you over. Now, after glimpses of her on-screen power last year in Drew Goddard’s “Bad Times at the El Royale” and Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” Erivo gives her...

The duo behind renowned Israeli restaurant Zahav is bringing their hummus and pita shop to the Franklin’s Table Food Hall in West Philadelphia.

After weeks of uncertainty after asbestos was discovered inside their shared building, students from two Philadelphia high schools returned to classes in new locations Monday.

Weeks after asbestos closed Benjamin Franklin High School, students returned to class in another Philadelphia location Monday. Questions and concerns remain for the Ben Franklin and Science Leadership Academy students.

School district headquarters, a synagogue and a former charter school are going to be the temporary home for students forced out of their shared Philadelphia high school building by asbestos.

The discovery of asbestos during construction has led the Philadelphia School District to close Ben Franklin High and Science Leadership Academy schools “indefinitely.” Teachers are worried about their students, who don’t know where they will go to school next week.

You will soon see a difference below the Benjamin Franklin Bridge as a ghost ship hovers over the water just in time for Halloween.

“It didn’t take long to become apparent that the statewide jurisdictional change was going to cause far too many problems with legislation that had to get done,” said the House Judiciary Committee chairman said.

Hip hop star Travis Scott is headlining day 2 of Made in America. NBC10’s Drew Smith speaks to concertgoers and has some of the highlights of the day so far.

Police were involved in the shooting of a young person after a crash involving an apparently stolen school bus on the Walt Whitman Bridge early Monday.

Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) officers shot a 17-year-old boy accused of stealing a school bus, crashing it on the Walt Whitman Bridge and then charging at the officers while holding a knife.

Tropical Depression Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, sparing New Orleans from a direct hit but stoking fears elsewhere of flooding, tornadoes, and prolonged power outages. Though the system was downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday afternoon and its winds were steadily weakening since it made landfall Saturday in Louisiana, Barry’s rain bands...

Find out what happens when two kids go in their “Magic Tree House” to meet Ben Franklin in Mary Pope Osborne’s latest book. Her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce, wrote the non-fiction companion book.

Authorities say a couple and their adult daughter were killed when their car collided with a tanker truck in South Jersey, a crash that also seriously injured their 11-year-old son.

A 500-square-foot mural depicting the history of the Philadelphia Fire Department will be painted on 4th and Arch streets.

A 500-square-foot mural depicting the history of the Philadelphia Fire Department will be painted by artist Eric Okdeh at 4th and Arch streets, next to the Ladder 2 Fire Station and around the corner from the Fireman’s Hall Museum.