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Amazon asks FAA for permission to fly drones

Amazon is officially asking the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to use drones as part of its plan to deliver packages to c ...

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 U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, right, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter host a roundtable discussion on President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative Friday in Philadelphia, listening to a dozen young men of color share their experiences. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

Meeting with U.S. education chief, Philly youth of color discuss struggles and success

Drug abuse. Violence. Incarceration. Those are the pitfalls that plague far too many young men of color in America, according to t ...

12 years ago

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Delaware lawmakers seek to strengthen DUI laws

Delaware could soon join 22 other states that compel convicted drunk drivers to use an ignition interlock device .  The ...

12 years ago

Updated N.J. special education code leaves ‘case assignment’ debate unresolved

What a difference a year makes. The Christie administration in New Jersey this week introduced ...

12 years ago

 Power outages from storms seem to hit Chester County high particularly hard, perhaps because of the rural nature of parts of the county. <a href=Photo via ShutterStock) " title="shutterstock_111059702" width="1" height="1"/>

Business booms for Chester County electrician after thunderstorm

The dog days of summer always seem to bring lots of destructive, fast-moving thunderstorms. The thunderstorm last Tuesday night wa ...

12 years ago

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12 years ago

 Rendering of proposed data center and CHP (Photo courtesy of TDC)

Lessons learned from Univ. of Delaware’s data center debacle

A couple of weeks before the University of Delaware pulled the plug on a proposed data center, E. Eugene Kern, the man behind the controv ...

12 years ago

Former Delaware Governor Jack Markell
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First Person: Delaware Governor Jack Markell

We are now two weeks into Delaware’s new fiscal year, and it’s time to look back on the past legislative session with Gov. Ja ...

12 years ago

South Seaside Park on July 6, 2014. (Justin Auciello/for WHYY)
Down the Shore

Beach plans this weekend? Another nice one on tap

The dry weekend weather stretch continues for almost all of the upcoming weekend. ...

12 years ago

Cross-country skateboarder Kevin Kreider learned how to skate in December of 2013, and started his journey on April 15th 2013. He arrived in Philadelphia on July 10th. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly native skateboarding across the country to find calm and his hair [photos]

Ten pairs of shoes, four sets of wheels, three pairs of elbow and kneepads, 3,300 miles and 86 days ago, Philadelphia native Kevin Kreide ...

12 years ago

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NHTSA probes 500K older model Ford cars for steering issues

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it is investigating steering problems in about 500,000 Ford cars. The inve ...

12 years ago

Man guilty in crash that killed N.J. police officer

Jurors have convicted a man of vehicular homicide in a fiery crash that killed an off-duty police officer who was on his way home on Than ...

12 years ago

 Elfreth's Alley is the oldest, continuously-inhabited residential street in America (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Unusual turnover on Elfreth’s Alley

It doesn’t happen often, but now you have mutiple chances to buy a house on the oldest, continuously-inhabited residential street i ...

12 years ago

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July 11th – 18th: The Machine performs Pink Floyd, Fort Miles, a part of WW II History and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

From concerts and movies to special events for the whole family, there is always something to see and do in Delaware.  Here are some ...

12 years ago

 US soldiers are seen  through a night vision scope in Iraq. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Russian pleads guilty to military export plot in Delaware

A Russian man accused of trying to illegally export military technology out of the United States pled guilty to the charges in federal co ...

12 years ago

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