A portion of SEPTA’s Broad Street Line was suspended Saturday afternoon after a fire near the tracks, officials say.
SEPTA said passengers were evacuated from a subway train at the Fairmount station after a fire broke out after 4:30 p.m. near the tracks near Ridge Avenue and Mount Vernon Street.
The incident shut down the B3 spur, which services riders between Fairmount and Chinatown.
by Eric E. Garcia, Fort Worth Report December 27, 2025
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Gina Propp’s holiday granola treats rolled into a flavorful small business.
Her Crunchy Girl Granola brand — now a favorite of locals who visit Fort Worth-area markets — started more than six years ago after Propp lost her job but the freedom fueled her entrepreneurial desire to expand her burgeoning business.
She took the original groovy granola blend she made for holiday gifts for friends and family — a mix of oats, pecans, walnuts, brown sugar, honey, butter, salt and vanilla extract — and branded and packaged it for sale. She started at the Clearfork Farmers Market to build her customer base for the small-batch product.
“It just took off,” she said. “Six years later, I have a following. I have lots of regular customers.”
Propp added six different blends, including seasonal options, over the years as she also sells at local markets and through crunchygirlgranola.com. Products can be customizable and include those that are gluten free, nut free and sugar free.
Some granola products are named with a nod to Fort Worth, such as the Trinity Trail Mix, a standard blend made with certified gluten-free oats, almonds, pepita seeds, chia seeds, hemp hearts and dried cranberries.
Through a partnership with Volt Cowtown, a Near Southside electric skateboard and apparel shop, Crunchy Girl Granola is selling a special blend at the store that includes macadamia nuts, white chocolate, freeze-dried pineapple and toasted coconut.
Contact information
Website: crunchygirlgranola.com
Phone: 817-718-3480
Email: gina@crunchygirlgranola.com
Facebook: facebook.com/crunchygirlgranola
Instagram: instagram.com/crunchygirlgranola
Propp spoke with senior business reporter Eric Garcia.
The interview has been edited for clarity and space.
Eric Garcia: How did you start your business?
Gina Propp: In 2019, just before COVID hit, I started pretty small, kind of like a side hustle. I then lost my job. The business was sold out from under the employees and so I was kind of left with looking for a new job. I thought, I had just started this granola business and I’m going to give it a go as a full-time hustle.
Garcia: Which markets do you sell your products at?
Propp: Clearfork Farmers Market is a regular one and I’ve got other monthly markets I hit as well — Benbrook, Keller, Fort Worth Community Market on South Main Street. Anything to do with Fort Worth, I’m usually at. I’m still enjoying it. Being a market vendor is physically labor intensive all around but lots of fun.
Garcia: Do Fort Worth-area stores carry your products?
Propp: I do sell at some small, local kind of mom and pop shops. I sell at Roy Pope Grocery. In Benbrook, I sell at Stone’s Throw Farm Co. And in Decatur, I sell at Wise Roots Farm to Market.
Garcia: How did you decide to do a granola business?
Propp: I had been making the original blend, which is pecan and walnut, for a couple of decades. I started making it before my kids were born, and I’ve got a 24-year-old now. I gave it away as a holiday gift. I called it groovy granola and I gave it away to all my neighbors, friends and family, especially my husband’s co-workers. They really always looked forward to it. I knew that it was more than my family loved it. A lot of people loved it. That particular blend I had been making that for 20 years, and that’s what I stuck with when I first started the business.
Birthday Cake is one of the granola blends sold by Fort Worth-based Crunchy Girl Granola. (Courtesy photo | Crunchy Girl Granola)
Garcia: What different granola blends do you have?
Propp: I have six regular blends and I have six seasonal blends that I rotate through the year. As I’ve grown over the years, a lot of people don’t like walnuts or pecans or they’re allergic. There were different reasons for me to create new blends based on customer requests.
Garcia: What is your most popular product?
Propp: It depends on the weekend — either the original or the almond. Seasonally, it would probably be the gingersnap, which is happening right now. They all have a little bit of a run. There’s always a draw. Some people come as a family and they bring five jars to fill up, which is shocking to me that that much granola is eaten. I love it.
Garcia: How has your business changed over the years?
Propp: I started on my own and ran it on my own for a long time. As I’ve grown, I have a small team who now bakes granola blends, packages it and sells it for me. I am still out there. I am usually at one market each weekend, if not two. I’m still very hands on.
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What if you could buy a house in Colorado for just $5? A new company is working to make that a reality, starting with a home in Denver.
Earlier this year, Jason Graf and Sam Cogan launched their new startup, FulHouse Inc. The company operates a sweepstakes model in which, instead of one buyer paying the full cost of a home, the price is split among thousands of entrants, each paying a few dollars to enter. At the end of the sweepstakes period, they hope the home will be paid in full, and one lucky winner will receive it at a fraction of the cost.
This fall, Graf put his own two-bedroom Denver townhome up for sale for the company’s first sweepstakes.
“We believe so much in the idea that we really wanted to put our money where our mouth is,” Graf said.
Denver home for sale through FullHouse Inc.
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His hope for this company is to make purchasing a home more accessible, he explained. The company’s launch also comes at a time when a new study from personal finance website Bankrate found that more than 75% of homes across the U.S. are unaffordable for the average household.
“A lot of those, those like dream giveaways, those are very fancy mansions, right? And it’s a marketing play for those reality TV shows. This is something different. This is truly trying to work with our community to give another option,” Graf said.
Since their first listing opened last month, Fulhouse has received more than $15,000 in entries. Graf says he is hoping to list more properties soon.
Denver home for sale through FullHouse Inc.
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“I’ve also had real estate agents already reach out and say, ‘Hey, I got 20 homes I need to sell. Can I put my home on your platform?’” Graf said.
But some realtors are cautious about a new model like this, given the many details to consider. Andrew Abrams is on the market trends committee for the Denver Metro Association of Realtors, and he said he believes that sometimes selling a house the more traditional way can help sellers better plan around moving dates and other costs.
“As far as my sellers go, I don’t think [they’d use this]. I think they have their expectations for the way to sell a house. It’s a little more traditional, and they would stick to that. You know, for $5, would one of my buyers say, ‘Sure, I’ll take a chance?’ But to me, it’s kind of the same thing as doing the lottery,” Abrams said.
As with any home purchase, Abrams explained, it comes with risks and a lot of fine print.
“There’s never a reason to say, ‘It’s different, therefore it has to be bad.’ But having said that, doing the full due diligence, doing all the fine reading, all those details are so important, and most people don’t want to do that, which is why we have a traditional model, which is basically supply and demand,” Abrams said.
The sweepstakes for Fulhouse’s first property is set to close at the end of March, and if the entries reach the selling point, Graf says it will be raffled off. Graf also said that if the listed home doesn’t receive enough entries to reach the sale price, potential entrants can request a refund, donate their money, or double their entries in the future at no additional cost. Those who want to participate can also write Fulhouse a postcard for a free entry.
“Saying that your house is, you can win a house for $5 sounds scammy, right? But that’s why we’re really trying to get the word out that we’re just regular people, and we’re here to make a difference,” Graf said.
FILE – Moving company workers unload boxes for a clinic in Fargo, N.D., on Aug. 5, 2022.
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State officials expect an increase in violations of Oregon’s mover certification rules in 2026, as a new law that expands what constitutes a violation goes into effect.
Current rules state that proof that a move was in process was required before a penalty can be assessed.
But a new law that goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2026, will allow companies that advertise, offer or complete a move within Oregon without an ODOT certification to be cited.
And those violations will come with a $3,000 fine, which is triple what current violations cost.
An official who oversees compliance said the ability to penalize companies that advertise moving services without a certification will be the biggest change.
“We expect to have an uptick of cases early in the year, and hopefully that will reduce as these entities come into compliance,” said ODOT Investigations and Compliance Unit Manager Leah Cisneros.
The changes come after a two-year resurgence in violations. The state handed out one violation a year in 2022 and 2023. Since then, it has handed out eight in 2024 and nine so far in 2025.
The numbers are still well shy of 2020, when 25 violations were cited.
Cisneros said fines commonly come after attempts to educate uncertified movers, and the rules do not apply to interstate moves.
An ODOT media release said movers in the state are regulated “to protect Oregonians’ personal safety and belongings,” and it encourages people to consult its list of certified movers before hiring a company.
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As aging coal-fired power stations along Australia’s east coast reach the end of their lives, the country is looking to transition to renewable energy to secure our energy sources into the future in the face of climate change.
But what happens when these developments have the potential to hurt sensitive ecosystems or biodiversity?
Is some environmental damage an unfortunate — but unavoidable — casualty in the battle against climate change?
Energy revolution
The Victorian Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action (DEECA) says that in the next 10 years at least an additional 9.5 gigawatts of energy is needed from on-shore renewable energy sources to meet its target of 95 per cent renewable energy by 2035.
The Kentbruck Green Power Hub near Nelson, about 330 kilometres west of Melbourne, is among the projects that could help the state hit these targets.
If approved, HMC Capital’s project could see up to 105 turbines, standing at 270 metres tall, constructed across a pine plantation.
Project documents for the Kentbruck Green Power Hub near Nelson show what the wind farm would look like above a pine forest. (Supplied: Neoen)
Project documents say it will generate an estimated 600 megawatts of power — or enough to power about 400,000 homes — and is in an area with consistent high winds and a strong grid connection.
In December 2024, the Commonwealth government gave the project capacity investment funding as part of an underwriting scheme that aims to help Australia meet its renewable energy targets.
The future of the wind farm lies with Victorian planning minister Sonya Kilkenny, who will decide whether to grant it a permit.
Environmental concerns
The proposed wind farm is adjacent to an internationally significant Ramsar-listed wetland and a number of national parks, sparking concerns it could pose a risk to a number of endangered birds, including the Australasian bittern, orange-bellied parrot and south-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo.
More than 200 submissions were made on the project during the public consultation period.
Among the concerns raised by environmental groups was lack of data on how birds used habitat in the area and inadequate plans to monitor and respond to any bird deaths caused by the wind farm.
The Kentbruck wind farm is proposed to be adjacent to Long Swamp, which is part of an internationally significant and Ramsar-listed wetland. (Supplied)
The Victorian National Parks Association is among the organisations that wants the wind farm moved to a different location that is less ecologically sensitive.
Association campaigner Jordan Crook said on paper it looked good to put wind turbines in a pine plantation, which was already a degraded habitat.
“But when you zoom out and see that pine plantation is within an [ecologically] important area in the south-west, where there’s already limited amounts of habitat because of past clearing, it really doesn’t stack up,” Mr Crook said.
Victorian National Parks Association campaigner Jordan Crook says there is little untouched habitat in Victoria, due to land clearing. (Supplied: Jordan Crook)
Victoria is the most cleared state in Australia, Mr Crook said, with about 70 per cent of native vegetation removed.
“How we put in new infrastructure should take that into account,” he said.
He said the wind farm would fragment the landscape and prevent the free movement of wildlife in the wider area, potentially posing a collision risk to endangered birds and bats.
The wind farm’s project documents said while there was a risk some birds could hit the turbines, birds were unlikely to fly high enough to pose a serious collision risk.
Climate change a bigger threat
Australian National University professor of environmental and climate change economics Frank Jotzo said renewable energy projects have a “minimal” impact on the environment, and while that’s unfortunate, they are for the greater good.
“Whatever we do, there will be some undesirable effects,” Professor Jotzo said.
“In the big picture, there’s no omelette you can make without breaking any eggs.
“Climate change is the far bigger threat to biodiversity, to our environment, agricultural systems and economy.”
Frank Jotzo says climate change is the biggest threat to biodiversity. (Supplied: Frank Jotzo)
But if renewable energy such as wind and solar is not expanded, then what alternatives are there?
“We would need to build new gas and coal-fired power stations, which would come at a higher cost than wind and solar,” Professor Jotzo said.
Chris O’Keefe says renewable energy developers have the environment front of mind. (ABC News: Adam Wyatt)
Chris O’Keefe is the national spokesperson for the Clean Energy Council, an industry-advocacy group.
He said renewable energy existed to protect the environment.
“It was invented because of the major issues that are confronting the world on climate change,” Mr O’Keefe said.
But can we perfect the balance between protecting ecosystems and biodiversity, and rolling out these projects?
“I don’t think that’s possible to say,” Mr O’Keefe said.
“But … there is no renewable energy company in Australia that does not have the environment front of mind.”
When she is busy, Lu Qijun places her phone on her son’s desk before he starts his homework.
The camera is on — and it stays on.
When Ms Lu’s son slouches, a calm voice on the phone reminds him to sit up. When he fidgets with his pen, the voice tells him to stop. And when his pace slows, the voice urges him to work faster.
Ms Lu, a television journalist in China’s southern province of Guangdong, is not in the room.
The voice belongs to Dola, a Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot developed by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok.
Ms Lu is one of about 172 million monthly users of the app, according to Chinese statistic platform QuestMobile.
In addition to homework monitoring, the app also acts like a tutor.
Ms Lu said AI could monitor her son doing homework when she was busy. (Supplied)
On social media, Ms Lu shares light-hearted videos of her son reacting to the chatbot’s instructions, attracting thousands of views from Chinese parents.
The appeal, she said, was not only convenience.
As China’s economic growth slows, many families are reassessing how much they can afford to spend on education.
Private tutoring, once common among China’s millions of urban middle-class households, has become harder to justify, even as many students continue to spend several hours a day on schoolwork and extracurricular classes.
“Dola can keep an eye on him for me,”
Ms Lu said.
“Parents are anxious about spending heavily, only to end up with a ‘rotten-tail kid,’” she said, referring to a popular Chinese meme used to describe jobless young adults despite years of investment in their education.
Dola is an AI app owned by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. (Reuters: Dado Ruvic/Illustration)
The app allows Ms Lu to upload parenting books and study materials she trusts so that it can tailor its guidance to her son’s needs.
Dola can also check her son’s homework, explain why his answers are incorrect, and generate similar questions based on his mistakes.
“It’s like having my own parenting bible,” she said.
“Now I can read a book or answer messages while he is doing his homework.”
AI used to sidestep conflict
Some parents say the app also helps them avoid conflict with their children. (Reuters: Anita Li)
In most Chinese schools, parents are expected to remain closely involved long after the school day ends.
Homework and extra classes often fill the hours after school, with teachers assigning tasks and providing feedback through parent chat groups on social media platforms such as WeChat.
Parents are expected to respond, submit updates and report on their children’s progress.
For many working families, the demands can be constant.
Most parents raising children today belong to the generation shaped by China’s one-child policy, and need to support four aging parents while raising children of their own.
In traditional family settings, mothers are expected to have a job, manage the household and take primary responsibility for supervising children’s education after school.
Some parents say the app also helps them avoid conflict with their children.
Wu Yuting from the central province of Henan has two children in primary school.
She and her husband used to sit beside their children while they completed their homework, a routine that often ended in frustration.
“My children behave better in front of AI,”
Ms Wu said.
“They think I talk too much.”
Parents believe completing homework diligently leads to academic success. (Reuters: Kim Kyung-Hoon)
Ms Wu said the AI bot spoke to their children in a calm tone — a contrast to the tension that can easily build between parents and children after a long day.
Dr Qi Jing, an associate professor at the Social Equity Research Centre at RMIT University, said the language used by artificial intelligence systems was designed to sound patient and encouraging.
“If parents use AI as part of children’s learning, they may be avoiding conflicts that need to be addressed,” she said.
“[Children’s] brain need conflict, struggle and challenges to develop properly.”
A tool, not a substitute
Education has long been central to Chinese family values and seen as the main pathway to social mobility and long-term security. (Reuters: Thomas Peter)
As AI becomes more widely used in education, learning-focused tools are attracting growing numbers of users.
Data from QuestMobile shows Dola’s learning app, Dola Aixue, has about 8.76 million monthly active users.
For parents like Ms Lu, the technology remains a tool — used carefully and adjusted as needed.
She limited how often it spoke, after finding too many prompts were distracting her son.
“I only use it when I’m too busy … If I have time, I still prefer to sit with him,” she said, citing concerns about emotional reliance.
“He’s still very young. I don’t want him to treat it as a companion.“
Parents wait anxiously outside exam centres while their children sit China’s university entry exam. (Reuters)
Elaine Zhou, a Shanghai-based mother who works in international education, said her two sons used AI tools to look up questions and check their homework.
However, she remained cautious about AI-led supervision and had concerns about overuse, privacy and exposure to content not suited to children.
“For children, AI is highly efficient and easy to use,” Ms Zhou said.
“But it can also reduce the process of thinking they do.“
Drawing the line
Experts say it’s essential to have clear boundaries.
Dr Qi Jing said artificial intelligence lacked the contextual understanding needed to replace the supervision of parents or teachers.
“AI can certainly be used, depending on how.”
Students in China are known for putting hours and hours into preparing for exams. (Reuters: China Dail)
She said behaviours such as playing with a pen or pausing briefly did not necessarily signal distraction, but could be part of a child’s thinking process.
Jeannie Paterson, co-director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne, said AI products designed for children should include limits on usage time, age-appropriate language and safeguards against harmful content.
Professor Paterson warned that excessive interaction with AI could weaken children’s engagement with the real world and hinder the development of essential social skills.
“Developers should monitor performance carefully for signs that the AI is not aligned with the best interests of the child,” she said.
She also argued developers must be careful not to suggest to children that the technology was alive or had human emotions.
“AI is a tool, not a friend,”
she said.
“It can assist with some tasks but does not care or love the child.”
Every week, we bring you a quick roundup of the 5 top stories from the world of oncology—ranging from pivotal regulatory decisions to key pipeline updates to expert insights on breakthroughs that are moving the needle in cancer care. This resource is designed to keep you informed on the latest updates in the space, in just a matter of minutes.
Here’s what you may have missed this week:
On December 22, 2025, FDA approved a subcutaneous formulation of mosunetuzumab (Lunsumio VELO) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma following 2 or more prior lines of systemic therapy.
The regulatory decision was based on data from the phase 1/2 GO29781 trial, (NCT02500407), which showed that patients treated with the fixed-duration subcutaneous formulation achieved an overall response rate (ORR) of 75% (95% CI, 64%-83%), including a complete response (CR) rate of 59% (95% CI, 48%-69%) and a median duration of response (DOR) of 22.4 months (95% CI, 16.8-22.8).
The FDA awarded breakthrough therapy designation to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd; Enhertu) for the post-neoadjuvant treatment of adult patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer who have residual invasive disease in the breast and/or axillary lymph nodes following neoadjuvant treatment and who are at high risk of disease recurrence.
The designation was supported by findings from the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast05 trial (NCT04622319). Data presented at the 2025 ESMO Congress and published in The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrated that patients treated with T-DXd (n = 818) experienced a 3-year invasive disease–free survival (IDFS) rate of 92.4% (95% CI, 89.7%-94.4%) vs 83.7% (95% CI, 80.2%-86.7%) among those who received ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1; Kadcyla; n = 817; HR, 0.47; 95% CI, 0.34-0.66; P < .0001).
The combination of ceralasertib (AZD6738) and durvalumab (Imfinzi) failed to improve overall survival (OS) vs docetaxel in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without actionable genomic mutations who experienced disease progression on prior immunotherapy and platinum-based chemotherapy, missing the primary end point of the phase 3 LATIFY trial (NCT05450692).
The combination regimen was generally well tolerated, and ceralasertib plus durvalumab displayed a safety profile consistent with the known toxicities of each agent. Data from LATIFY will be presented at a future medical meeting.
The biparatopic HER2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate JSKN003 received FDA breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of adult patients with advanced or metastatic, platinum-resistant, recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer, primary peritoneal cancer, or fallopian tube cancers with a HER2 expression of 1+, 2+, and 3+ by immunohistochemistry who have received prior treatment with bevacizumab (Avastin).
Findings from a pooled analysis of the phase 1 JSKN003-101 (NCT05494918) and phase 1/2 JSKN003-102 (NCT05744427) clinical trials supported the regulatory decision, and the demonstrated that patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer who received JSKN003 (n = 46) achieved an ORR of 63.0% (95% CI, 47.5%-76.8%), with a CR rate of 4.3% and a disease control rate of 93.5% (95% CI, 82.1%-98.6%). At a median follow-up of 9.3 months, the median progression-free survival was 7.7 months (95% CI, 5.7-9.7), and the 9-month OS rate was 89.9% (95% CI, 75.0%-96.1%).
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved pimicotinib (ABSK021) as a systemic treatment for adult patients with symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor for whom surgical resection is expected to result in functional limitation or relatively severe morbidity.
The approval was supported by data from the global phase 3 MANEUVER study (NCT05804045), which showed that patients treated with pimicotinib experienced an objective response rate (ORR) of 54.0% at week 25 per RECIST 1.1 criteria as assessed by a blinded independent review committee vs 3.2% for those given placebo (P < .0001).
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