Diane Mastrull

Working nearly 40 years in her family’s bedding business, Janet Wischnia has just launched a line of organic, American-made bed linens that will test the 88-year-old wholesale company’s ability to succeed in today’s social media-driven direct-to-consumer world.

The decision was two years in the making and included a review of the existing small business support services in Philadelphia, which led to a determination that Wharton could be playing a more impactful role in entrepreneurial support.

Erin Houston and Emily Kenney didn’t know those killed in the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh but were motivated by that loss to make it easier for women to shop for ethically sourced clothing.

The spree of stabbings and shootings in Philadelphia occurred on Sunday.

William McWhorter, 46, was found lying on the ground on the 700 block of Tulip Street at 3:27 p.m. Friday with an apparent gunshot wound.

The victim was able to drive two blocks after being shot before losing control of the taxi, which came to rest against a tree.

The victim was pronounced dead less than two hours after she was stabbed repeatedly in the head, police said.

“These acts of lawlessness have no place in our communities,” Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.

Police said the accident occurred at 12:42 a.m. when a vehicle traveling north on Kensington Avenue struck the family’s vehicle, which was eastbound on Hunting Park Avenue.

Police said Jeffione Thomas pedaled up to an unmarked police vehicle, pulled out a gun and started firing multiple times on Sharpnack Street Friday night in the city’s Cedarbrook section.

Four of the shootings involved fatalities. One of the dead had just attended a vigil for a 20-year-old man killed earlier this month in an East Mount Airy shooting, police said.

Victor Manue Senquiz, 29, of Philadelphia, initially fled the scene at West Allegheny Avenue and Rosehill Street but returned and was arrested, police said.

About 10 people were present at the party in Edgewater Park, but no one else was shot, authorities said. The deaths have been declared homicides.

The victims were each shot multiple times in the head, police said.

It is the second such declaration of the summer and takes effect noon Monday and continues until at least 8 p.m. Tuesday, with heat indexes of 100 to 104 degrees expected.

Ashley McLean-Gaylor, of Glenolden, was crossing Lindbergh Boulevard westbound on foot around 2:30 a.m. when she was struck by a Honda Accord traveling southbound on 84th Street, police said.

McCormick, who lost a close GOP primary race to celebrity doc Mehmet Oz last year, now has the full support of his party as he takes on Bob Casey, the longest serving Pa. Democrat in Senate history.

The officers were shot after attempting to pull over a pickup truck at Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard.

Officers heard “several” gunshots when they responded to a 911 call reporting more than 500 juveniles gathered at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue just after 4:30 p.m., police said.

The child was stabbed in the left forearm outside on South 18th Street, just off Spruce Street. Earlier in the day, a woman was stabbed in the chest and finger near 13th and Locust.