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File photo: Frank Nucera Jr., left, with his defense attorney Rocco Cipparone in 2019. (Nicholas Pugliese/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Disgraced N.J. police chief says jurors’ racial bias tainted hate crime trial

Four jurors who voted to convict Frank Nucera Jr. of lying to the FBI say they were pressured to do so for fear of being called racist.

7 years ago

An artist's rendering of the BAT lanes planned for Roosevelt Boulevard. (City of Philadelphia)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Roosevelt Blvd. speed cameras hit delay, installation pushed back

A regulatory snag is delaying the rollout of speed cameras on deadly Roosevelt Boulevard.

7 years ago

The state Capitol building in Harrisburg.
Keystone Crossroads
Money

Pa. justices decline to restore cash payments to poor, people with disabilities

At issue is a Depression-era program, known as general assistance, that typically provided about 11,000 recipients with some $200 a month.

7 years ago

Residents are also encouraged to keep the boxes stocked. Officials say to leave non-perishable, canned goods, and personal care items (excluding sharp objects and chemicals). (Courtesy of The Little Free Pantry)
Down the Shore
Health

Leave what you can, take what you need: ‘Free little pantry’ initiative expands at the Shore

Residents are also encouraged to keep the boxes stocked. Officials say to leave non-perishable, canned goods, and personal care items (excluding sharp objects and chemicals).

7 years ago

A SEPTA Market-Frankford line train prepares to leave the station. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SEPTA: Death on tracks disrupts Market-Frankford Line

SEPTA’s Market-Frankford Line is out of commission in Center City after a train fatally struck a man who fell onto the tracks at the 8th Street Station.

7 years ago

A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts. (Big Stock photo)
Down the Shore
Community

Shore town joins forces with recycling company to repurpose cigarette butts

A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts.

7 years ago

Franklin Learning Center. (The Flash/The Notebook)
Education
The Notebook

Another school closed as a result of potential asbestos danger

Franklin Learning Center is expected to re-open Jan. 2.

7 years ago

The inaugural Barefoot Country Music Fest is set for Friday, June 19 through Sunday, June 21 on Wildwood's Lincoln Avenue beach. (Public domain image)
Down the Shore
Community

Wildwood to host 3-day country music festival on the beach

The inaugural Barefoot Country Music Fest is set for Friday, June 19 through Sunday, June 21 on Wildwood's Lincoln Avenue beach.

7 years ago

Philadelphians descended on Thomas Paine Plaza to rally for the impeachment and removal of President Trump. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Hundreds in Philly, tens of thousands across the nation rally to impeach Trump

The Philly rally was one of 600 protests across the U.S. on the eve of the U.S. House voting on impeachment.

7 years ago

Of the 2,300 evictions in 2018, 12 percent found that landlords did so in the wake of a reported L&I violation. A problem known in Philadelphia housing circles as 'retaliatory eviction.' Image (Courtesy Visit Philadelphia)
Urban Planning
Broke in Philly

Philadelphia renters forced to deal with major issues — or risk eviction

Evictions are disproportionately leveled against black renters, particularly child-rearing women, even when controlling for factors like income.

7 years ago

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The Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Politics & Policy

President Donald Trump impeached by US House on 2 charges

Trump is on track to become the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.

7 years ago

The entrance to Hahnemann University Hospital on North Broad Street in July, before the hospital was shuttered. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Money

Failure to pay doctors’ malpractice insurance lands Hahnemann, St. Chris owner in bankruptcy trouble

Philadelphia Academic Health System says it won’t pay former doctors’ medical malpractice insurance. Its Chapter 11 filing is at risk, under judge’s order.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2016, file photo, traffic crawls eastbound on Interstate 84 in Sturbridge, Mass., after an overnight accident involving two tractor-trailers on the Massachusetts Turnpike. An alliance of Northeast and mid-Atlantic states are working on a pact aimed at lowering carbon emissions from cars, trucks and other means of transportation. A draft version of the agreement, known as the Transportation and Climate Initiative, was released Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (Bill Sikes/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Multi-state pact could curb transportation carbon emissions

Carbon emissions from cars, trucks and other means of transportation would drop while gas prices would jump under a multi-state draft climate proposal released Tuesday.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella (AP file photo)
Courts & Law

Firms to pay $386 million to settle price-fixing allegations

Pennsylvania's lawsuit consolidated claims by various government agencies and labor unions.

7 years ago

An aerial image of Mountaire's Millsboro facility is included in the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays report about water contamination caused by the facility. (Courtesy Delaware Center for the Inland Bays)
Courts & Law

Delaware poultry processor to pay $500,000 for contaminating drinking water

The poultry processor has reached a deal with Delaware environmental regulators to settle violations at its wastewater treatment facility.

7 years ago

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