Nicole Sweeney was a Temple University intern the first time she stepped through the doors of WRTI, unaware that the campus radio station would spark a lifelong devotion to jazz. Two decades later, she’s back — this time behind the mic as the new host of Evening Jazz,  the station’s flagship jazz program.

Sweeney’s voice has traveled far from her Philadelphia roots, becoming a famil...

At 8:30 a.m. on a sweltering Wednesday morning, Peter House stood at the edge of the intersection where 58th Street, Baltimore Avenue and Cobbs Creek Parkway converge with a tangle of buses, trolleys, crosswalks and fast-moving cars.
Just a few weeks earlier, a 50-year-old cyclist was struck and killed at the...