New Year's Day

The coronavirus pandemic was the story of 2020 and we’ll still be dealing with the “new normal” in 2021. But many of us have hope the new year will be better.

Some coronavirus restrictions were lifted for Pennsylvania gyms, a welcome update during the typically busy month of January. Yet gym owners are still dealing with major changes due to the pandemic. NBC10’s Rosemary Connors explains.

Here are some of the newest, and cutest, residents of the Philadelphia area — the first babies of 2021 to arrive at local hospitals.

One of the first babies born in 2021 in our area is a beautiful baby girl, Astraea. She and her parents, Lekota and Tylor McCann joined NBC10’s Jim Rosenfield and Jacqueline London, while Astraea took a nap.

Whether your resolution is to hit the gym or to cut down on spending, a local psychologist has a few tips for success in the new year. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk has the details.

Mirabel Pinto won’t remember 2020 — she’s turning one year old at one minute after midnight on New Year’s Day, 2021. But her parents, Jessica and Jeremy Pinto, say she is one of many blessings in a tough year.

Neiman Marcus announced  its annual fantasy gift Christmas catalog Thursday in New York.

A Maryland woman will spend 180 days in jail for keeping 66 dogs in deplorable conditions in her home.

Lehigh County lost a considerable amount of its 911 emergency dispatch center staff following an on-duty New Year’s celebration inside the county facility. Seven workers resigned and three others were fired for what the county official in charge of the call center called “a serious-enough breach” of a longtime county policy. Rick Molchany, Lehigh County’s director of special services,...

Incoming Philadelphia Councilwoman Jamie Gauthier says the Mummers have been given chance after chance to self-police their annual New Year’s Day parade. But after at least two Mummers with a wench brigade called Froggy Carr wore racist blackface while marching Jan. 1, 2020, Gauthier believes the entire event should be overhauled. She wants to stop giving the Mummers a permit…

An attorney for the Mummers and the leader of the Mummers Wench brigade at the center of yet another racist and insensitive controversy surrounding the annual New Year’s Day celebration in Philadelphia said the two men caught in blackface are banned from ever marching again.

Correction: This story has been updated to correct Kinkel’s name. A Mummers group was thrown out of Philadelphia’s annual New Year’s Day parade because at least one member marched down South Broad Street in blackface. Froggy Carr, a wench brigade that dressed in orange-and-black colored costumes in what was apparently a motif honoring the Flyers mascot Gritty, got booted...

There is a call for change to Philadelphia New Year’s traditional Mummer’s Parade. This is after controversy to a Mummers group wearing blackface. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk went to city hall to find out how city leaders are going to stop these incidents from happening.

A Mummer whose blackface got his wench brigade thrown out of the New Year’s Day parade in Philadelphia said he was honoring a friend who died. That friend, Mummer Kevin Hinkel told NBC10, wore blackface.

Authorities say a woman ringing in the new year was fatally shot by a stray bullet outside her Houston home.

A Philadelphia tradition continues on New Year’s Day as the Mummers strut on Broad Street. With the annual parade comes parking restrictions, road closures and changes to public transit.

The Mummers are a Philadelphia tradition dating back more than a century. Besides the sequins, golden slippers and banjos, what does it take to become a Mummer? Aunyea visited Fralinger String Band in South Philly to find out.

The first round of road closures and parking restrictions for Philly’s iconic Mummers Parade start this weekend. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle shows what drivers should look out for around City Hall ahead of the New Year’s tradition.