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Dallas County election worker Maxx Nunez tapes up a sign before polls open for Super Tuesday voting at John H. Reagan Elementary School in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Politics & Policy

Super Tuesday 2020 election results

Fourteen states hold contests today, with about a third of all delegates for the Democratic nomination at stake.

6 years ago

The set up on Stone Mountain consists of a radio tower, solar panels and an equipment room and is key to how the Rural Broadband Cooperative is delivering broadband internet to its users. (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Lifestyle

This rag-tag group of DIYers has an answer for rural Pa.’s internet problem

Companies have long complained that providing service to rural areas is a money-losing business. This is a cheaper alternative.

6 years ago

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Jerry Solomon, of West Lampeter Township, rolls the stone slab that covers his private well water pump at the back of his home on Dec. 9, 2019. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Can your well water make you sick? No testing is required in Pennsylvania.

Shirley and Bob Redcay, of Denver, were sure their home was getting clean drinking water from the brand-new well on their property.

6 years ago

Gregory Holston, the former executive director of POWER, joined the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office as senior adviser on advocacy and policy. (Abdul R. Sulayman/
Tribune Photo)
Politics & Policy
The Philadelphia Tribune

Former POWER leader joins DA’s office as senior advisor

The Rev. Gregory Holston, who has served as the executive director of POWER, joined the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office as the senior advisor on advocacy and policy.

6 years ago

City council person Mark Squilla speaks at a press conference with other local officials about Senate Bill 933 which would prohibit supervised infection sites unless they are authorized by local governments. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Two bills in Harrisburg to regulate supervised injection sites

Two separate efforts progressing in Harrisburg to regulate supervised injection sites, including a complete ban.

6 years ago

A woman, who declined to give her name, wears a mask in New York out of concern for the coronavirus. Experts say the masks do not necessarily help prevent the spread of the virus. (Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)
Health

No positive tests for coronavirus in Pa., N.J., Del

New Jersey and Delaware officials said Monday that their states still had no confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus.

6 years ago

A man was arrested after more than an hour evading numerous police cruisers in Northeast Philadelphia. (NBC10)
Courts & Law
NBC10

Police ID pantless, shirtless suspect in wild ambulance chase through Philly

A man who stole an ambulance and was shot three times while leading police on a wild chase through Philly was identified and is in critical condition, according to investigato

6 years ago

Temple University campus at North Broad Street in Philadelphia (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Temple, University of Delaware cancel programs in Rome over coronavirus

Temple University ends semester in Rome promises on-line completion to semester.

6 years ago

James Lipton arrives at night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Arts & Entertainment

‘Inside the Actors Studio’ host James Lipton dies at 93

Lipton died of bladder cancer at his New York home, his wife, Kedakai Lipton, told the New York Times and the Hollywood Reporter. He was 93.

6 years ago

National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Jewish Museum files for bankruptcy

Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History was never able to pay down the cost of its building.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump gestures as he walks offstage after speaking at a campaign rally, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, in Las Vegas. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump to make first visit of 2020 to Pennsylvania

President Donald Trump is making his first visit this year to the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, in a town hall-style event hosted by Fox News in Scranton .

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is pictured in this Jan. 15, 2019 file photo (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Health

Watch: Governor Murphy holds coronavirus preparedness press conference

Governor Phil Murphy outlines New Jersey’s preparedness activities related to the outbreak of novel coronavirus on March 2, 2020, in Trenton.

6 years ago

Center City buildings were evacuated due to a smell of gas on Monday. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Community

Strong gas-like odor caused Center City evacuation

Reports said the odor emanated from the former PES refinery in South Philly.

6 years ago

A demonstrator celebrated outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 after the court voted to uphold key tax subsidies that are part of the Affordable Care Act. But federal taxes and other measures designed to pay for the health care the ACA provides have not fared as well. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Courts & Law

Supreme Court will decide the fate of Obamacare

The court said it would hear an appeal by 20 mainly Democratic states of a lower-court ruling that declared part of the statute unconstitutional and cast a cloud over the rest

6 years ago

Ron Maccri of Vineland, an advocate for a Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution makes his case to the Cumberland County freeholder board. The resolution passed with a unanimous vote. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

The Second Amendment ‘sanctuary’ movement has arrived in NJ

New Jersey, the state with some of the strictest gun laws, passed a wave of additional firearms safety measures in 2018 and 2019. Gun rights activists are now pushing back.

6 years ago

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