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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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 Jonestown memorial at the Evergreen cemetery in Oakland, CA (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Jonestown massacre remains found at Dover funeral home

Cremated remains of nine victims of the 1978 Jonestown massacre in South America have turned up in a former funeral home in Dover. < ...

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 Rapper Chill Moody of West Philly (center) and GoGo Morrow (left) (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Battle of the bands initiative part of larger venture to boost Philly’s arts industry

So you think you can rock, twang, spit, bounce, blow, groove, or praise? David Oh wants to hear it. The Philadelphia counci ...

12 years ago

 Beesley's Point Power Generating Plant near Beesley's Point New Jersey, far north of Cape May County, Burns coal in 2 generators and fuel oil in the third (Image courtesy of WikiMedia Commons)

N.J. to hold hearing on carbon trading rules Friday

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is holding a public hearing Friday in Trenton on a proposal to repeal rules associa ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Wolf has new ad, Corbett gets friendly poll numbers

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett needed enough of a rally this summer to make his re-election bid at least plausible for potential contribut ...

12 years ago

Batter-dipped Oreo cookies fry at Amish Fest at the Reading Terminal Market. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Pennsylvania Dutch take over Reading Terminal Market this weekend in Philly [photos]

The 25th Annual Pennsylvania Dutch Festival began Thursday at the Reading Terminal Market. The Market’s center court is feat ...

12 years ago

 Work continues Thursday on a new rail bridge at the site of the 2012 Conrail derailment.(Tom MacDonald/ WHYY)

Menendez vows to change train rules in wake of Paulsboro crash, spill

Last week, the the National Transportation Safety Board found the 2012 train derailment and toxic chemical spill in Paulsboro, New Jersey ...

12 years ago

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 At one of numerous National Night Out events across the city, police and residents got their groove on in West Philly on Tuesday night. (Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Police)

Wakefield 49ers host annual National Night Out event in Germantown

For Rosalind McKelvey and the Wakefield 49ers, National Night Out was about much more than fighting crime. Observed every Aug. 7 s ...

12 years ago

 (Photo courtesy of Claire Cleary)
Philly Parenting

4 family events for the weekend

Here’s a look at what’s going on this weekend in and around Northwest Philly.  ...

12 years ago

 Johnstown Pennsylvania in 2014 and after the Great Flood of 1889.
Keystone Crossroads

Photos: Johnstown then and now, embracing the history of Flood City

In June 1889, newspapers from around the world published sensational headlines that read: “Horrors of Horrors,” “Awful Calamity. Jo ...

12 years ago

Syrian American doctors go to help heal those suffering in civil war

In conditions beyond primitive, where a bit of sanitized garden hose is used for surgical tubing and blacksmiths fashion metal scraps to ...

12 years ago

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 Kash Goins in 'Death of a Salesman' at Plays & Playrs Theatre (Photo courtesy of Katie Balun)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ — different color, same striking tone

The delusional Willy Loman, head of the household in Arthur Miller’s now-classic “Death of a Salesman,” is one of the A ...

12 years ago

Pa. Gubernatorial Candidate Tom Wolf tours the Northeast Building Products factory in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Tom Wolf tours Philly window factory, punches back at Corbett over pensions

Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf toured a Philadelphia door and window factory today in his campaign to unseat Republican Go ...

12 years ago

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N.J. town renames building after Obama

John F. Kennedy’s name is coming off a town-owned building in New Jersey, and President Barack Obama’s name is going on it. ...

12 years ago

N.J. officer probed for criticizing Obama

A New Jersey police officer is under investigation after he was videotaped making comments about President Barack Obama and the Constitut ...

12 years ago

State, NCAA seek time for talks in Penn State suit

Lawyers for the NCAA, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and others involved in a lawsuit about the Penn State penalties over child sex abuse ...

12 years ago

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