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Brett Sholtis

Reporter · US

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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Brett Sholtis

    Lobsters on the lam? No, Cape May crustaceans didn’t pull off a great nor’easter escape (opens the original)

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    As the tidewaters spread across the Shore during this weekend’s nor’easter, so did the viral videos and photos online. One widely shared video showed a waterlogged dining room at the famous Lobster House in Cape May. Then Internet jokesters enhanced the video, adding three lobsters serenely swimming out to sea. On Sunday, people drove up to the iconic seafood restaurant and market — closed due to flooding — to witness any evidence of the lobster jailbreak. “We’ve had people in Florid

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Brett Sholtis

    A Gilded Age flower show is giving people a rare glimpse inside the Lynnewood Hall mansion in Elkins Park (opens the original)

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    After being closed for more than eight decades, the Lynnewood Hall mansion in Elkins Park is open, briefly, to the public. And if Friday morning was any indicator, people want in. Spectators poured into the mansion for the first day of a 10-day flower show that offers a rare chance to view the second-largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the U.S. “I just love big, old, fancy houses,” said Karen Lacki, 47, who drove from Reading. Lacki showed up early to snap photos of flower-adorned manneq

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Brett Sholtis

    Philly’s district attorney charged a woman with murder in a Kingsessing fire that killed a man and injured 4 in February (opens the original)

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    The Philadelphia district attorney’s office has charged a woman with murder and other crimes for her alleged involvement in a fire in February in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood. Chardae Sapp, 34, was charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, arson, causing or risking a catastrophe, and two misdemeanors, the office of District Attorney Larry Krasner said Friday morning. The charges date back to a fire at a house on the 5400 block of Regent Street on Feb. 4 around 1:40 a.

  4. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Brett Sholtis

    Philly food drive supports Chinese immigrants while raising awareness about SNAP cuts and a plan to tax the wealthy (opens the original)

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    The line formed early, and by noon more than 200 people stood outside the Kai Yuan Temple in Northeast Philly, waiting to receive food. This wasn’t a typical food pantry. The food drive was organized to provide familiar grocery staples to the city’s sizable Chinese immigrant community. “It really shows the need for culturally relevant food — and food access in general,” said Sunhee Volz, an organizer. The food drive was a grassroots response to the city’s affordability crisis at a ti

  5. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Brett Sholtis

    After 9/11, these Pennsylvanians went to war. Here’s how their lives changed. (opens the original)

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    Within weeks of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the U.S. government launched airstrikes and sent American troops to Afghanistan. In March 2003, spurred by claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. bombed and invaded the country. In the two wars that followed, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans died, with civilians making up a significant number of the dead. On the U.S. side, more than two million American military personnel served in Iraq or Afghanistan, and over 7,0

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