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Warden Dana Metzger describes how analysts will coordinate with prison officials as they monitor more than 2,000 cameras. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Courts & Law

More than three years after deadly prison riot, Delaware unveils advanced camera system

Analysts will monitor cameras and coordinate with officers at Delaware prisons to help prevent another riot like the 2017 incident that left one officer dead.

6 years ago

Through a catheter (on the right), the Lungpacer sends small electrical signals to the nerves to coax the diaphragm into action while the patient is on the ventilator. (Screenshot via Lungpacer Medical Inc.)
Health

New medical device aims to stimulate COVID patients’ lung function post-ventilator

Ventilator use atrophies the diaphragm, the muscle we use for breathing. The Lungpacer is designed to help coax it back to work, to enhance recovery.

6 years ago

Jackson County District 5 firefighter Captain Aaron Bustard works on a smoldering fire in a burned neighborhood in Talent, Ore., Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, as destructive wildfires devastate the region. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)
Community

Better weather aids battle against deadly Western wildfires

Oregon's emergency management director said officials were preparing for a possible “mass fatality event."

6 years ago

Rafiyq Friend in the community room of the Ahmadiyya mosque in North Philly, where the blood drive will happen Sunday. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Community

Philly mosque to host blood drive to mark 9/11 anniversary

Part of a national movement, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community continues its 10-year tradition of sponsoring blood donations around the anniversary of the attacks.

6 years ago

In this handout photo provided by British Antarctic Survey, field guides Sarah Crowsley, left, and Sam Hunt, right, pose for a photo after digging out the caboose, a container used for accommodation that can be moved by a tractor, at Adelaide island, in Antarctica on Friday, June 19, 2020. (Robert Taylor/British Antarctic Survey via AP)
Health

Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way?

At this very moment a vast world exists that’s free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away.

6 years ago

This July 18, 2020, file photo, shows the AstraZeneca offices in Cambridge, England. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Health

Oxford, AstraZeneca to resume coronavirus vaccine trial

AstraZeneca said that globally some 18,000 people have received the vaccine as part of the trial.

6 years ago

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko go  for talks during Biden's visit  in Kiev, Ukraine,  Monday, Jan. 16, 2017.  (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Politics & Policy

Biden audio first shared by ‘Russian agent’ thrives online

The audio’s proliferation on social media shows how foreign operations aimed at influencing the U.S. election are still easily reaching Americans.

6 years ago

A housing illustration
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

From relief to despair, one Pa. family struggles with the ambiguity of federal eviction ban

In Pa., it’s up to individual courts in counties to decide how to interpret the federal order. With debts mounting, renters lives are in limbo, and relief is only temporary.

6 years ago

Dispatchers for the Black Community Watchlist. From L to R: Lucinda Holt; Phillip Dowdell, Esq; Rev. Antoinette Moss; Katherine Taylor, Rev. Kermit Moss. (Credit: Kermit Moss, Jr.)
Community

‘What can we as Black people do to feel safe?’: Helpline launches in N.J. tracking anti-Black violence

The Black Community Watchline in Middlesex County, N.J. allows people to report and seek counseling for instances of anti-Black violence, aggression and bias.

6 years ago

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In this Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 file photo, children play
Health

Study: Kids infected at day care spread coronavirus at home

The study “definitively indicates — in a way that previous studies have struggled to do — the potential for transmission to family members."

6 years ago

Rodeo/concert in Sussex County
Community

Del. rodeo and concert organizers fined $21,000 for ‘severe non-compliance’

The rodeo and concert drew more than 1,500 people to a Sussex County farm. Organizers didn’t get permission to exceed a 250-person limit on outdoor gatherings.

6 years ago

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Protesters of Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipline kayaked to a clean-up site on Marsh Creek Lake in Chester County, Pa., where an estimated 8,000 gallons of drilling mud migrated into the waterways. (Kimberly Paynter / WHYY)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP orders Sunoco to reroute pipeline after Marsh Creek Lake spill

Mile-long alternative route will avoid area where 8,000 gallons of drilling mud escaped.

6 years ago

Jenna Pelaez reacts as friends and loved ones sing
Health

N.J. coronavirus recovery: Young people driving new cases; MVC chops away at backlog

People aged 14-18 accounted for 4% of the new positive cases, and residents between the ages of 19-24 made up 6% of new cases.

6 years ago

Philadbundance staff and volunteers were joined by DHS employees Friday to help load trucks of Philadelphia food for organizations in need. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Health

‘Truly outrageous’: Trump administration rejects Pa. plea for extra food benefits for state’s neediest families

The benefits would have covered the cost of meals students normally receive at school. Pa. officials are outraged that the USDA rejected their bid.

6 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilmember Cherelle Parker. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
The Philadelphia Tribune

City councilwoman proposes legislation criminalizing racially motivated 911 calls

The legislation was inspired by a May 25 incident, where a white woman called 911 on a Black man in New York City’s Central Park.

6 years ago

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