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PHILADELPHIA - Families with students at two Philadelphia charter schools are now searching for new schools to enroll their children. Parents with children enrolled at the Universal Bluford and Universal Daroff Charter Schools saw a post on Instagram that said the schools would not open for the first day of school set for Monday. The Universal Daroff Charter School will close immediately, leaving families scrambling to find other schools for their children three days before the start of the school year. Another school, the Universal Bluford Charter School, will close at the e PREVIOUS: Future of 2 Philadelphia charter schools unclear, creating confusion for familiesThe Instagram post read, "This is an important message to let you know that the Daroff Charter School and Bluford Charter School will not be starting school for students on Monday, August 29, as previously planned.

A 10-year-old boy from Oklahoma is being hailed a hero after he saved his mom from drowning when she suffered a seizure in their backyard pool.

An Edmonton youth has become a TikTok star of sorts after being compared to Canadian rapper Drake’s son, Adonis Graham.

Kendall Jenner makes a casual arrival for a business meeting in Los Angeles on Friday (August 16).

India on Saturday witnessed a marginal decline on daily Covid-19 cases with the country recording 9,520 new infections in the span of 24 hours. India on Saturday witnessed a marginal decline on daily Covid-19 cases with the country recording 9,520 new infections in the span of 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country's active caseload dropped below 90,000-mark, that is, 87,311 active cases at present.

CALGARY, Alberta - Men were asked to test their threshold for pain using a machine that simulates menstrual cramping, an experience hosted by a company that aims to "remove the stigma" of periods. The period pain simulator was used last month at Calgary Stampede, an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival held July 7 through 16 in Calgary, a city located in the western Canadian province of Alberta. The company, called somedays, offers period pain relief products and representatives attended the event to use the machine on willing participants. It later posted a series of period simulator videos on the somedays TikTok account, which has garnered millions of views.The participants are pictured testing out their pain thresholds with a machine that simulates menstrual cramps during the Calgary Stampede, an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival in July in Canada.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia food delivery driver says he out of a job after his expensive bike was stolen while he was picking up orders. Dajon Murray told FOX 29 that he was making his last stop of the night at the Wawa on 37th and Spruce streets in University City early Friday morning. Murray said when he left his bike near the front of the store and when he turned around to pickup the order someone stole it. Wawa employees shared surveillance video with Murray that he says captures the bike thief in the act. Dajon Murray said he was getting a pickup order at a Philadelphia Wawa when someone stole his expensive electric bike. Murray said the electric bike costed more than $600 and he only had it for about a month.  "Soon as I turned around the corner, I just saw my bike missing," Murray told FOX 29's Shawnette Wilson. Murray said the electric bike costed more than $600 and he only had it for about a month. "It gets around pretty good, I would say, so it was great for work," Murray said.

MEDFORD, N.J. - Oh deer. A South Jersey community is doing whatever it can to help an animal that’s become a town mascot, of sorts.An update from the original story Friday evening is the deer no longer appears to be in distress. Lily Snow sent a new photo of what looks to be the deer showing it is free of the planter.Cell phone video from Medford resident Ryan Horner shows him getting oh so close to helping a female deer who, somehow, got a tomato cage and planter stuck on her head, while, most likely, looking for something to eat.A deer in distress in Burlington County has been enough to bring a community together to help protect her until she can be saved."She must have stuck her head in too far and it’s, literally, horizontally around her neck and she’s just lugging this planter," Medford resident Lily Snow explained.When Snow saw a Facebook post Monday of the deer in distress, she jumped into action, reaching out to everyone and anyone.

DREXEL HILL, Pa. - Authorities say a fight at a high school football game just outside of Philadelphia sparked false reports of a shooting and sent fans and players running for safety. The Upper Darby Police Department said in a tweet that a physical fight broke out at Saturday night's matchup between Upper Darby High School and Monsignor Bonner. Amid the commotion, some believed they heard shots being fired which caused players and fans to run for safety. A video tweeted by Philadelphia Sports Digest captured crowds of rushing across the field, towards the exit. Police said reports of a shooting at the game were false and that officers were in the process of clearing the area. No arrests were reported immediately following the incident and police did not say what sparked the initial fight.The game was canceled with Monsignor Bishop leading 6-0 in the third quarter.

ITV game show. Paul, who is known to The Chase fans as The Sinnerman, made the revelation to host Bradley and the contestants on the show after a question about colours came up. Bradley asked The Chase hopeful and Paul to answer a question about the Wallace and Gromit film The Wrong Trousers.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - For a change, the ocean water is warm down at the Jersey shore.It's so warm, it set a record in Atlantic City, where the water temperature soared to the mid-80s on Thursday and early Friday. This weekend, your Weather Authority says to plan for ocean water in the upper 70s.The water is much, much warmer for a few reasons.South and east of our shores, the Atlantic Ocean has been much warmer than average for a while.Usually, 80-degree ocean water stops around the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

Also Read: Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech for patent infringement over Covid-19 vaccine "Given we're in the third year of the pandemic, it's... all the more so tragic given that we have the tools that can actually prevent these deaths," she told a live interaction on the WHO's social media channels. "A lot of us have become numb to the numbers." Also Read: Covid an endemic in this state: How infections, symptoms will look like now "We need a reality check.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - Friday nights are exciting again as high school football is back in play.The Philadelphia Eagles are keeping true with a tradition and helping some high schoolers for the annual Battle at the Beach.Battle at the Beach. It’s all going down at Carey Stadium in Ocean City.Top high school football teams from all over New Jersey and Pennsylvania are taking part in 11 games scheduled for the weekend.Battle at the Beach.

FILE - Family running together. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)How much does it cost to raise a kid in America?  The average American household’s median income is nearly $80,000 as of 2021, according to the U. S.

BOSTON - In the nick of time, the Boston Police Department’s harbor patrol unit rescued a father and son who were desperately clinging to a cooler at the outermost edge of Boston Harbor after their lobster boat sank.Officers Stephen Merrick and Garrett Boyle responded to a call for a boat taking on water at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday near Graves Light Station, police said in a statement.

The Chase star Paul Sinha opened up to Bradley Walsh about a sight issue which makes it hard for the quiz ace to visualise colours.

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! star Adele Roberts has shared a candid post outlining her struggles with her stoma.The Radio 1 DJ is free from cancer but still has to tend to her stoma, which she has affectionately named Audrey.Roberts uploaded a picture of her stomach with a pile of sugar over the site and explained what was happening in the caption.READ MORE: I'm A Celebrity's Adele Roberts gives cancer update in emotional social media postShe wrote: “If you’d have told me a year ago I’d be sugaring my colon, I wouldn’t have believed you! Audrey’s at it again.

George Foreman attends the Hublot x WBC "Night of Champions" Gala at the Encore Hotel on May 03, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Roger Kisby/Getty Images for Hublot) LOS ANGELES - Two women have filed lawsuits accusing former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman of sexually abusing them in the 1970s, according to media reports.Separate lawsuits were filed by the women, who are both in their 60s, under the pseudonyms Gwen H.

PHILADELPHIA - The mother of 8-year-old Fanta Bility shared memories of her daughter who was killed by police gunfire while leaving a high school football game nearly one-year ago. "Fanta was a giver, she was so nice to friends, sometimes she would take food and give it to friends, and clothes, she was so happy," Tenneh Kromah said.Authorities say on Aug. 27, Bility and her family were leaving the Academy Park High School football field among a crowd of fans when a shooting between two young men erupted.

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department is reforming its cold case investigation branch that was forced into dormancy as homicides surged across the city and stretched resources thin. "It was very unfortunate, but the cold cases ended up going by the wayside," Captain Jason Smith from the department's homicide unit told FOX 29's Kelly Rule. There are currently more than 4,000 unsolved murders in Philadelphia dating back to 1990, and just last year the city set a historically bloody benchmark of 562 killings. Smith said as homicides continued to pour in, he was forced to begin assigning investigators from the Cold Case Unit to probe active homicides. MORE LOCAL HEADLINES"We will continue to work those investigations, but in order to do that effectively I need a team of investigators dedicated to that purpose; to work on cold case investigations," Smith said. The department's revamped Cold Case Unit currently consists of two teams and four investigators, but Smith expects to double the unit's manpower by mid-September. Together, the team will work off tips and pull old case files to meticulously go through the details of the thousands of unsolved murders.

Philadelphia police investigate a shooting in Olney that critically injured a 21-year-old man and wounded a 23-year-old woman. OLNEY - A double shooting has injured a woman and critically wounded a man in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood.According to officials, police responded to the 400 block of West Nedro Avenue Friday afternoon, around 2:30, on the report of gunshots.When they arrived, officers found two gunshot victims, a 23-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her abdomen and a 21-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds to his body, as well as one to his head.

body in half has warned fans that he has been taken ill.

Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, which has provided guidance and advice to the government and public throughout most of the pandemic, said Friday that it is being dissolved, but the government said its work will continue.Members of the group wrote in a letter Friday that Public Health Ontario informed them last week that the science table and its working groups would be dissolved as of Sept. 6.

Two rare orange lobsters were found in the same shipment to Whitney's Seafood Market in Hudson, Florida. HUDSON, Fla. - Whitney's Seafood Market in Hudson gets a shipment of lobsters delivered twice a week from Maine.But Monday's delivery came with a rare surprise: not one, but two orange-colored lobsters.The pair stood out easily among the rest of the pack.Most lobsters are a muddy color, which helps them blend into their environment and protect them from predators.

plan to erase $10,000-$20,000 in student loan debt for millions of Americans has borrowers racing to find out what kind of student loans they have — and how much, if any, relief they can expect.On the surface, it sounds simple: Biden is eliminating $10,000 in federal student loan debt for those with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that earn less than $250,000. He’s canceling an additional $10,000 for those who received federal Pell Grants to attend college.But diving into the jargon of student loans? It’s complicated.

An illustrative image of a person holding a medical syringe and a Covid-19 vaccine vial in front of the Moderna logo displayed on a screen. On Wednesday, January 12, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

LOS ANGELES - It’s a four-legged Cinderella story.  The mom of abused beagle puppies was rescued by royalty... Prince Harry and Meghan Markle…the Duchess of Sussex."She was so awesome.

School District of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA - A strike by service employees within the School District of Philadelphia has been averted as a deal has tentatively been reached.Workers represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ initially voted to authorize a strike August 19th.At issue was whether safety demands for the workers had been met and union leaders said those demands were lacking. MORE HEADLINES:Their current contract is set to expire August 31st.The union and the district were able to reach agreement on these issues:The union represents 2,000 public school service workers, including bus drivers, bus attendants, bus mechanics, cleaners, building engineers, school service workers and others.32BJ Vice President Gabe Morgan said: "We have a deal! We got a deal that gives our members historic pay increases, while giving them the training they need to keep themselves and students safe. This contract honors the enormous contributions and sacrifices that 32BJ school workers have made, including risking their lives throughout the pandemic.

The prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in the United States declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, but inpatient mortality and treatment costs were higher, according to a paper published yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.Using data from the Premier Healthcare Database, researcher

Three newly published studies in Open Forum Infectious Diseases detail COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and 2021, including one describing an increase in US hospital deaths during a community surge, one finding a rise in the risk of dying at home in North Carolina, and one showing a reduced risk of hospital death in New York City in the second pandemic wave.

COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccines offered protection against severe COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant for at least 6 months, and three doses of China's inactivated vaccines were more protective than two doses but not as protective as three doses of mRNA vaccines, finds a study from Singapore published today in JAMA Network Open.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Delaware State Police has launched an investigation after a man was shot while driving on I-495. Authorities say the incident happened early Friday morning, just before 3:00 a.m. According to police, the man, 20, was driving south on I-495 at Terminal Avenue in the center lane when a person in a car on his right side opened fire. Multiple shots were fired and the man was struck on the lower part of his body, police say. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESAccording to officials, the man managed to drive away and get off the highway to I-295 in the area of Rt.

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department's Homicide Unit is searching for three suspects wanted in connection with a fatal South Philadelphia triple shooting. Police say the shooting happened on the 3500 block of Warnock Street on August 5 at 10:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON - Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate early this year contained documents with classification markings, including at the top secret level, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification for this month's search of the property.The 32-page affidavit, even in its heavily redacted form, offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago property long after he left the White House and reveals the gravity of the government's concerns that the documents were there illegally.Mobile app users, click here to view the redacted affidavit"The government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records," an FBI agent wrote on the first page of the affidavit in seeking a judge's permission for a warrant to search the property.The affidavit does not provide new details about the 11 sets of classified records recovered during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago but instead concerns a separate batch of 15 boxes that the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved from the home in January.In those boxes, according to the affidavit, officials located 184 documents bearing classification markings, including 25 documents marked as top secret.

Philadelphia police investigate a fatal shooting in Eastwick. EASTWICK - A man has been fatally shot in Eastwick.Officials say the shooting happened on the 2800 block of South 81st Street Friday afternoon, just after 12:30.Responding officers found a man in his late 20s suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in his head and over his body when they arrived on scene.Police rushed the man to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he died.Authorities are actively investigating the shooting, though no arrests have been made.

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Officials with the Camden County Health Department have announced a probable case of monkeypox associated with a camp in Gloucester Township. This brings the county's total to 23 cases of monkeypox. According to health department officials, a lab test with a positive result was reported on Wednesday. After the positive result came back, the department launched an investigation per authorities. Officials did not say if the person who tested positive was a camper or staff. RELATED HEADLINESThe person is isolating and officials say individuals who were in close contact have been notified. The county has also scheduled a post-exposure prophylaxis vaccine clinic for those who were determined to have intermediate exposure. Officials are reminding people to be vigilant to help limit the spread of the virus. "Although this case is concerning, health officials on a county and statewide level have acted quickly to mitigate the further spread of this virus. For the public, we need residents to be vigilant about exposures and limiting the spread of this virus," Camden County Health Officer and Public Health Coordinator Dr.

Moderna is suing rival vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging the partners infringed on its patents in developing their shot for Covid-19.

Celebrity Masterchef. But away from his television work, Malone has spoken about feeling "very lucky" that his tinnitus is only mild, but warns others about the importance of looking after their hearing. Possibly one of the worst conditions for a choirmaster to develop, after being diagnosed back in 2013, Malone found it "hard to come to terms with" and spoke about how "upset" he was.