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Severe flooding claims lives in Philadelphia area as search continues for missing family members

PHILADELPHIA — Scott Rolen will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame next weekend, and the occasion promises to reignite a series of debates around here that have the staying power of a syndicated sitcom. Does Rolen deserve enshrinement? Was he a great player? A very good player?…

PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper circled the bases, nice and slowly for a change.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department suffered a double loss on Friday after two officers with a combined 39 years of service died in separate, nonviolent circumstances.

PHILADELPHIA — Seldom has an athlete accomplished so little yet so completely captured the heart of the Philadelphia sports fan.

PHILADELPHIA — They rose and clapped and chanted — “M-V-P! M-V-P! M-V-P!” — and for a few moments, the Padres must have wondered if it was October again at Citizens Bank Park.

Philadelphia #Eagles star Darius Slay was honored during a return to his alma mater, Brunswick High School, to host a youth football camp

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra are very much at home with the Russian composer, while the Gesualdo Six mine the full expressive power of Byrd’s clandestine works

PHILADELPHIA — Olin Chamberlain called his uncle during the NBA playoffs in the early 1990s as Michael Jordan was making another run toward a championship. Chamberlain, then a teenage basketball player in Los Angeles, couldn’t call M.J., but he could get Wilt on the horn.

PHILADELPHIA — Yu Darvish came out of the All-Star break strong, and so did the Padres’ offense.

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia will remain on the long roster of legal venues where Donald Trump has failed to convince a judge that his job as president in 2020 gives him immunity from lawsuits now.