Wednesday's Child: Steven
Steven is a very energetic 12-year-old. He loves writing rap songs and playing video games. He's even designed a few video games.
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Steven is a very energetic 12-year-old. He loves writing rap songs and playing video games. He's even designed a few video games.
Since it opened in April of 2003, the Red Cross House has housed more then 8,600 people in more than 2,700 families, who were victims of disaster.
The volunteers are all incoming seniors at Martin Luther King High School, working in the school's "Seeds for Learning" Farm.
A group calling itself "The Rolling Rabbis" pedaled into Philadelphia on Thursday as part of a cross-country trip to raise money for children with special needs.
"There's no reason why they can't do it at 9, when it gets dark," says one woman we spoke with.
The ceremonial shovels went into the ground on Thursday at St. Mary Medical Center, marking the beginning of a yearlong, $22-million project that will expand the capacity of its emergency department.
James Cummins, his wife, and their three young boys were sound asleep when the car hit their Byberry Road home shortly before two in the morning. They all escaped unharmed, but two people in the car were killed and the house is a total loss.
Medicaid is a key part of President Obama's health care reform law, and a new study shows that it does help to make people's lives better.
A group of Camden schoolchildren hit a few balls around at tennis courts on the campus of Rutgers University in Camden, before boarding a bus to visit the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI.
Local food banks say they're still waiting for $2 million in funding from the Delaware River Port Authority, approved by the agency more than a year and a half ago but subsequently put on hold.
Mayor Nutter helped to unveil the photo essay at the airport, depicting moments in the 70-year history of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first African-American military pilots.
"More and more, friends and neighbors are giving," says the president and CEO of the "Gift of Life" donor program, "but now there's this new phenomenon of people just wanting to do some good for their fellow man and giving their kidney to someone else."
A program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, McGill says he has slept in more than 20 slave dwellings to inspire their preservation.
The Maccabi Games are coming to the Philadelphia area this summer, and local organizers are looking for families to host the approximately one thousand teenagers coming to the region to compete.
In our area, trail development is expected to take off this summer thanks to a $23-million federal grant.
It was part of a national program called "House of Heroes."
The Wanamaker pipe organ, nestled in the Grand Court of what is now Macy's center city Philadelphia department store, is celebrating 100 years of high notes.
Davon is a bright but sometimes shy young man who loves animals and video games.
Ribbon-cutting ceremonies were held Monday in North Philadelphia for long-awaited streetscape improvements for a Latino business corridor.
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About 40 young people growing up in some of Philadelphia's toughest neighborhoods, many of whom may have thought they had no chance of getting a good job or a good education, graduated Friday from the St. Christopher's Hospital "Health Tech" program.
Franz Knorr, of Collegeville, is leaving this weekend for Athens, where he will compete in the Special Olympics World Summer Games which begin next Saturday.
Juneteenth, the observance of the end of slavery in America, will be celebrated at a number of venues throughout Philadelphia this weekend.
Seventeen-year-old Cheilin loves ballroom dancing, especially the rumba.
The breast cancer organization "Komen for the Cure" has launched its first-ever initiative for breast health and cancer awareness aimed at Latina women in Camden County.
