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Down the Shore

Onshore flow to increase; minor tidal flooding expected

An increasing onshore flow is likely to result in at least minor tidal flooding conditions during the Monday and Tuesday evening high tid ...

12 years ago

 South Seaside Park in May 2014. (Photo: Justin Auciello/JSHN)
Down the Shore

Building waves, increasing winds spur Small Craft Advisory

A developing onshore flow will result in building waves and increasing winds, forecasters say. A weak low pressure system developi ...

12 years ago

 Demonstrators are arrested outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, during a protest for immigration reform. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
National Interest

Obama’s immigration punt: Wisdom or weakness?

President Obama’s decision to delay executive-action immigr ...

12 years ago

 Parents see their children off to the first day of classes at Thomas Mifflin School in East Falls on Monday morning. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Share your Back to School Day 2014 photos from Northwest Philly

Today’s pitter-patter of children’s feet on sidewalks, and rumble of buses on the streets, can only mean one thing: Northwest ...

12 years ago

 The windows to the second-floor apartment Neil Blunt grew up in can be seen behind him. (Jimmy Viola/for NewsWorks)

Germantown residents recall Queen Lane Apartments’ promising early days, unfortunate decline

Neil Blunt was five years old when his family moved into the brand-new Queen Lane Apartments. The year was 1955, but Blunt still r ...

12 years ago

 Young Honey Festival attendees fearlessly watched up close while hearing a presentation about how the bees make their honey. (Natavan Werbock/for NewsWorks)

5th Annual Honey Festival packs the Wyck House hive [gallery]

Five years ago, the Philadelphia’s Beekeepers Guild started the ...

12 years ago

Save Camden Schools files legal challenge over charters

Unlike their compatriots in Newark, Jersey City, and Paterson, Camden’s school board and community leaders barely contested Gov. Ch ...

12 years ago

 (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-196600268/stock-photo-a-black-rat-snake-pantherophis-obsoletus-crawls-onto-a-concrete-pad-near-a-home-in-north-carolina.html'>Snake image</a> courtesy of Shutterstock.com)

‘There’s a snake in my house!’

I like snakes as much as any woman my age, which is to say, I’d rather find a member of the Taliban in my house. That’s what ...

12 years ago

Politics & Policy

Future of Medicaid alternative uncertain in Pa.

A plan by Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett to provide subsidized health insurance to hundreds of thousands of residents could die shortly after ...

12 years ago

 A heroin addict holds a used syringe in his mouth after shooting up. (Brennan Linsley/AP file photo)

Bucks County officials fight apathy, burnout for the county’s overdose problem

The Bucks County District Attorney’s office recently hosted a public meeting to address what it sees as  fatigue with the coun ...

12 years ago

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Where investigations stand in traffic jam scandal

The closures of lanes leading up to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey, a year ago touched off multiple investigations ...

12 years ago

Police probe fatal hit and run in Deptford, N.J.

Police in Deptford Township and the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating a hit-and-run accident in which a pedes ...

12 years ago

 Ethan Lipkin (left) and David Stanger in the Ideopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of 'Rhinoceros.' (Photo courtesy of Johanna Austin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Fringe Festival reviews: ‘Rhinoceros’ and ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’

A duo of reviews from Howie Shapiro; Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s “Rhinoceros,” and “White Rabbit R ...

12 years ago

Could Glassboro be the next Collingswood?

Five years ago, construction started on Rowan Boulevard, a street surrounded by shops and student housing adjacent to Rowan University ...

12 years ago

 This Aug. 19, 2014 file photo shows flash flood waters from the overrun Skunk Creek flood I-10 in northwestern Phoenix. Global warming is here, human-caused and can already be considered dangerous, a draft of a new international science report says, warning that it is increasingly likely that climate change could be irreversible. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday sent governments a final draft of its synthesis report, which combines three earlier, gigantic documents by the Nobel Prize-winning group. There is little in the report, that wasn’t in the other more-detailed versions, but the language is more stark and the report attempts to paint a bigger picture of the problem caused by the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. (Matt York/AP Photo, file)
Politics & Policy

A summer beset by crisis, or simply drenched in media?

Ukraine. ISIS. Beheadings. Ebola. Gaza. Ferguson.  This seems a particularly grim time in our world. Yet is it, really ...

12 years ago

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