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PHILADELPHIA —Halloween 2020 was a disappointment for millions of children because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the season of witches brought a wizard to Philadelphia, a sorcerer who concocted the biggest deal in the city’s history:

PHILADELPHIA — The championship of the Rumph Classic — Philadelphia’s premier summer pro-am basketball tournament — was already set in 2016 when Mike Morak received a text message from Marcus Morris hours before tip-off.

The stand-off between Ben Simmons and the Philadelphia 76ers is finally over and both now need to move on. That's especially true for Simmons, who may have done irreparable damage to his reputation in the NBA and wider sporting community, writes Jon Healy.

David Hardisty: Jalen Rose thinks a James Harden trade won't happen until the offseason. He believes Kevin Durant is telling Harden to give him a chance to get healthy, make a run in the playoffs and if they come up short, "then we make changes." ...

Here in Philly, the 76ers’ game against the NBA-best Phoenix Suns might have been the furthest thing from fans’ minds.

PHILADELPHIA — It was 20 years ago, Sheryl Lee Ralph recalled, when State Sen. Vincent Hughes gave the actor a gift in a not-quite robin's-egg blue box with a white bow that began their love story.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philly Sound is going to the movies.

PHILADELPHIA — A pizza delivery driver shot an attempted carjacker in Kensington last Thursday, leaving the man in critical condition.

Starbucks workers at two Philadelphia stores took a key step in forming a union last Friday, accelerating a budding labor movement at the coffee giant that has seen employees at dozens of the chain's locations nationwide try to organize.

PHILADELPHIA — What became a coastal “bomb cyclone” rivaled a hurricane in intensity, incited an all-out whiteout blizzard at the Shore on Friday night into Saturday, threw back several inches of snow across the Delaware River, and elevated the “Queen of Resorts” to kingly status in the realm of snow…

NY priest charged with molesting Philly boy years ago